A Thousand Oaks man was sentenced yesterday to 95 months in federal prison for orchestrating an identity theft scheme in which he used personal identifying information taken from dozens of mortgage and credit files to fraudulently obtain credit cards that were used to purchase more than $1 million in goods and services. Visanio Eugene Vann,…
Category: ID Theft
Milton Woman Charged In Patients’ Identity Thefts
The Associated Press reports: A Milton woman working at a Delaware medical office has been arrested for stealing patients’ information and opening credit card accounts. Delaware State Police say 41-year-old Diane Perrin used her position as a medical assistant from February 2008 to March to take 11 patients information and open credit card accounts. Read…
CT man pleads guilty to using stolen “convenience checks” to defraud banks
Justin Edwards, 27, of Coventry, Connecticut pleaded guilty today before United States District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to four counts of bank fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud. According to court documents and statements made in court, between July 2007 and March 2008, Edwards and a co-defendant stole balance…
RCMP uncover ID fraud operation
From Black Press: RCMP investigators believe they have busted a major identity fraud operation based in Cache Creek with ties to Kamloops. On Oct. 23 Kamloops RCMP property-crime unit assisted Ashcroft RCMP with a search warrant for a Cache Creek residence that culminated in the arrest of a 22 year old Cache Creek man. “An…
Garden Grove man gets 11 years prison for ID theft
Deepa Bharath reports: A 28-year-old Garden Grove man has been sentenced to 11 years in federal prison for orchestrating two identity theft schemes in which he got personal information from hundreds of consumers and used it to fraudulently obtain about $1.5 million from home equity lines of credit and credit card accounts, federal officials said…
Palmetto General Hospital employee and accomplice sentenced for stealing patient records
Jacquettia L. Brown, 29, and Tear Renee Barbary, 25, both residents of Miami-Dade County, were both sentenced this week following their conviction on offenses relating to the theft of patient records from Palmetto General Hospital to further a fraud scheme. U.S. District Court Judge K. Michael Moore sentenced Brown to two years and five days…