Felix Nkansah, 28, was found guilty of participating in an identity theft ring and defrauding the United States Treasury. His conviction followed a one-week trial in Manhattan federal court. According to the Superseding Indictment and evidence presented at trial: Beginning in 2007, Nkansah participated in an identity theft ring whose purpose was to file, via…
Category: ID Theft
PA: Detroit Con Man Sentenced to 15 Years for Identity Theft Scheme
Martel T. Kirkland, 53, of Detroit, Michigan, was sentenced Monday to 15 years in prison for conspiracy, mail fraud, aggravated identity theft, credit card fraud, wire fraud, uttering a forged security, and aiding and abetting, in connection with an identity theft scheme involving approximately 40 financial accounts. The sentence was announced by United States Attorney…
AZ: Identity theft, forgery arrests
Mike Sakal reports: An alleged identity theft and forgery ring was disrupted in southeast Phoenix this week after deputies from the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office executed warrants at two residences and arrested five illegal immigrants from Mexico. Two of the ring leaders, Eduardo Chavez-Elizalde, 33, and Federerico Velasco-Lopez, 33, were arrested on suspicion of identity-theft-related…
NY: Philadelphia Man Sentenced for His Involvement in Identity Theft Ring
John H. Windle, 44, of Philadelphia, PA was sentenced on January 27 to 70 months of imprisonment for his involvement in an identity theft ring. On September 6, 2007, Windle pled guilty to four felony offenses: one count of identification document fraud, one count of wire fraud, and two counts of aggravated identity theft, in…
UK: Incidents of identity theft up by 32pc
Justin Harper reports: The recession has led to a surge in financial fraud with identity theft up by almost a third, latest industry figures have revealed. A worrying trend is emerging where criminals take over the running of your bank account and transfer funds into an account they have set up to accept these bogus…
CA: Credit card scammer pleads guilty
Ronald Leon Marshall, 53, of Los Angeles, has pleaded guilty in federal court to four counts of using unauthorized credit cards to defraud Central Valley merchants and credit card companies, says U.S. Attorney Benjamin Wagner. Mr. Marshall admitted that for six weeks in 2008 he used stolen and otherwise unauthorized credit card numbers to buy…