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…
Category: ID Theft
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…
(follow-up) RI: Ringleader of credit card scheme gets 11 years
NBC10 reports: A federal judge Friday sentenced Eric Snead, 33, of Providence, to 11 years in prison for orchestrating an identity theft and credit card fraud scheme. Snead and co-conspirators compromised the accounts of nearly 50 victims and defrauded banks of more than $400,000 by obtaining duplicate credit cards of victims’ accounts and using the…