Hailee Lampert reports: An investigation is under way following several incidents of credit card fraud. Louisville Metro Police told WLKY the U.S. Secret Service is investigating this case. The Secret Service said as a matter of policy, they do not comment on open cases, even to confirm there is one. An owner of O’Shea’s Irish…
Category: ID Theft
WA: Names of possible fraud victims posted to VPD website
Bob Albrecht reports from Washington: The Vancouver Police Department posted to its website the names of more than 400 people whose personal information may have been compromised, according to a press release. The names, as well as dates of birth and social security numbers, were discovered in a plastic bin inside a home in the…
Two Romanian nationals charged with stealing bank acount numbers
Paula Reed Ward reports: Two Romanian nationals are in federal custody for allegedly using card skimmers to steal the account numbers from PNC Bank card users and then using those accounts to spend some $200,000. Alexandra Razvan Serb and Mihai Popa are charged with bank fraud, access device fraud and aggravated identity theft. The Western…
(follow-up) Ex-university police officer gets probation in UCM identity theft case
As a follow-up to a case previously reported here, James B. Drake, the former University of Central Missouri police officer who pleaded guilty in January to stealing student identification information and conspiracy to commit identity theft, was sentenced by a federal judge in Kansas City to five years of probation. His wife is scheduled to…
Woman pleads no contest to charges of identity theft
A confessed professional identity thief pleaded no contest in state court yesterday to charges that could put her behind bars for the rest of her life. […] Audrey L. Collins, 44, pleaded no contest to racketeering, first-degree identity theft, first-degree theft and unauthorized possession of confidential personal information. […] When police arrested Collins and co-defendant…
Dallas woman gets statutory maximum sentence in mail theft and aggravated ID theft case
Shannon Palmer, 42, of Dallas, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Reed C. O’Connor to the statutory maximum sentence of seven years in federal prison, without parole, for mail theft and aggravated identity theft, announced U.S. Attorney James T. Jacks of the Northern District of Texas. Palmer, who has been in custody since her arrest…