Eartha Ann Worthy, 29, of Broward County, Florida pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit access device fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft for her participation in an identity theft fraud scheme involving the personally identifiable information of magazine subscription customers. According to court documents, law enforcement agents executed a search warrant…
Category: ID Theft
FL: Man, 24, arrested on ID theft charges in Orlando
WFTV reports: A 24-year-old man was arrested Thursday on charges of possession of credit card-making equipment, fraudulent use of scanning device, unlawful possession of personal identification information and possession of a firearm by a felon, said the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. Chadd Thomason, 24, was arrested following a search warrant at his home on…
Former lab technician at Children’s Heart Center Nevada arrested in suspected ID theft case (UPDATED)
Ricardo Torres reports: A lab technician at the Children’s Heart Center Nevada who had access to patient files containing personal information was arrested two months ago on suspicion of identity theft, the center’s attorney said Friday. Read more on the Las Vegas Review-Journal. CHCN issued a statement on their website today that says, in part:…
FL: Convicted felon hijacks charity – and the state can’t stop it?
Adam Walser reports that a former volunteer at the non-profit Kingdom Purpose, Teach One Reach One after-school program was allegedly able to hijack ownership of the charity by altering public information on the Florida Department of State sunbiz.org website. And there’s little the Department of State says they can do about it. The former volunteer, Sabrina Miller-White, who had been convicted on…
ND: Man charged in identity theft, fraud schemes pleads guilty
AP reports that a North Dakota man from Nigeria who was here on a student visa and who had been charged in October with multiple crimes, has pleaded guilty: Chude Umeh, of Fargo, is charged with more than a dozen counts, including conspiracy, bank fraud, mail fraud, and aggravated identity theft. He pleaded guilty to a…
CA: Former Chico State student accused of “bizarre and twisted” crimes
Almendra Carpizo reports: A former Chico State University student is accused of a series of “bizarre and twisted” crimes that include urinating on his roommates’ bedding, hacking a student’s school account to drop the person’s classes and stealing nude photographs from a female student. Daniel Deluna-Martinez, 27, of Hamilton City, pleaded not guilty Thursday in…