CBS reports: A former health insurance company employee was sentenced to nearly three years in prison for stealing more than 50 customer identities from her former job. Quinzella Romer, 39, previously pled guilty to one count of possession of fifteen or more unauthorized access devices, in this case social security numbers which had been issued…
Category: ID Theft
UG Nazi member “JoshTheGod” sentenced for serial 911 SWAT calls to celebrities’ homes, ID theft
AP reports: Federal authorities on Monday identified a New York man as part of a computer hacking group that called armed police to the homes of 20 U.S. celebrities and other prominent people in 2013 – including CNN television host Wolf Blitzer, National Rifle Association leader Wayne LaPierre, a federal cybercrime prosecutor in Massachusetts and…
CA: Peninsula Dry-Cleaner Facing 8 Years In Prison for ID Theft, Fraud: Prosecutors
Patch reports: An owner of a Menlo Park dry cleaning business is facing up to eight years in state prison after pleading no contest Friday to numerous charges of felony identity theft and fraud, prosecutors said. Edwin Smith, the 64-year-old owner of Menalto Cleaners, accepted a plea deal that dropped many of the 40 felony…
Florida Woman Gets Four Years For Stealing 652 Identites
Low-tech is still effective. CBS Miami reports that Laveisha Dorray Charles-Coldros has been sentenced to four years in federal prison for possessing more that than 600 stolen identities that were used to steal tax returns and in fraud. Hallandale Beach police had stopped the 30-year-old woman and found mail addressed to numerous people and a…
Texas podiatrist pleads not guilty to fraud, identity theft
Field Walsh reports: Local podiatrist Gregg Petty pleaded not guilty to fraud and identity theft at a hearing Wednesday in a Texarkana federal court. Petty, 52, appeared for arraignment with Texarkana attorney Thomas Johnson in the Texarkana Division of the Eastern District of Texas. Johnson entered pleas of not guilty on Petty’s behalf to 22…
YKHC Investigating Possible Credit Card Fraud Against Employees
Anna Rose MacArthur reports: Credit card information from Yukon Kuskokwim Health Corporation employees may have been compromised. YKHC and Bethel Police are investigating. Tiffany Zullkosky of YKHC says the alleged fraud may have been committed by a YKHC employee. The fraud would only affect employees who’ve used personal credit cards while booking combined personal and…