Lake Sun reports: Multiple credit cards were apparently used by the employee arrested in the theft of more than $140,000 from the Morgan County Health Center along with the identity theft of a former employee. Melissa D. Owsley, 38, was arrested and charged last week with one count of identity theft resulting in the theft…
Category: ID Theft
Drug addicts sent from Puerto Rico may be victims of ID theft in Chicago
Odette Yousef reports: After we aired a story about Puerto Rican drug addicts who were sent to unlicensed 24-hour group treatment programs in Chicago, we heard from lots of listeners. They were disturbed by one particular detail in reporter Adriana Cardona-Maguigad’s investigation: that the groups routinely confiscate addicts’ identifying documents, and sometimes don’t return them. In fact,…
ME: Windham Man Sentenced to Three Months for Fraud and Identity Theft
Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Manuel J. Arruda, 46, of Windham, Maine was sentenced Thursday in U.S. District Court by Judge Jon D. Levy to three months in prison and two years of supervised release for mail and access device fraud and identity theft. He was also ordered to pay $11,962.85…
KY: Former Cash Express employee arrested
Christy Hoots reports: A former employee of Cash Express has been arrested after she was found to have allegedly taken out fraudulent loans in the names of former customers. Maysville Police Detective T.C. Rice said 30-year-old Emily Fletcher of Maysville, turned herself into police Thursday around 3 p.m. She was arrested and lodged in the…
MI: Around 85K affected in FireKeepers Casino data breach
WoodTV has an update/follow-up on a FireKeepers Casino breach first disclosed in May. Information from thousands of credit and debit cards may have been stolen during a data security breach at FireKeepers Casino in Battle Creek. Officials with FireKeepers Casino confirmed Friday that approximately 85,000 credit and debit cards used between September 7, 2014, and…
Rhode Island Governor signs new comprehensive Identity Theft Protection Act
Linn Freedman writes: On June 26, 2015, Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo signed Senate Bill S0134, the Rhode Island Identity Theft Protection Act of 2015, which substantially revises the old law, including breach notification. Specifically, the new law requires municipal agencies, state agencies and any “person” that “stores, collects, processes, maintains, acquires, uses, owns or…