In an update to a story previously reported here, Larry Alexander reports: A second Lancaster County man has been charged by the U.S. Department of Justice in an identity-theft scheme that targeted DUI offenders in Lancaster and York counties. John B. Spencer III, 30, of Lancaster, is the second man charged with conspiracy to commit…
Category: ID Theft
18 months in prison for woman accused of I.D. theft
As a follow-up to a case previously reported here, Stephanie Locke has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for bank fraud and social security misuse. One of the victims, a J.C. Penney employee, Michelle McCambridge, helped when she recognized Locke when Locke came up to her register. More details on KING5.
Crawford & Company employee sentenced for ID theft
As a follow-up to a case reported previously, the Associated Press reports that Shanell Bowser has been sentenced to five years in prison and was ordered to pay more than $200,000 in restitution to the victims of an identity theft scheme. Bowser, who was employed by medical claims adjustment firm Crawford & Company, had access…
Pennsylvania man sentenced for ID theft
Charles D. Taylor, 47, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was sentenced by United States District Judge John T. Copenhaver, Jr. to two years imprisonment and ordered to pay over $29,000 in restitution for aggravated identity theft. Taylor pled guilty in June 2009, admitting that while he was incarcerated in Pennsylvania, he obtained personal identifying information of prison…
Leader of $2 Million ID Theft Ring Pleads Guilty in VA
After six of seven scheduled witnesses testified at his trial, Leonardo Darnell Zanders, age 49, of Dolton, Ill., pled guilty Monday in federal court in Virginia to conspiring to commit bank fraud as one of the leaders in a nationwide identity theft ring that has resulted in a total loss of more than $2.1 million…
Texas man and woman sentenced in Missouri for tax fraud scheme
Two people were sentenced yesterday on charges of aggravated identity theft, conspiracy and possession with the intent to use false identification documents in a scheme to file false income tax returns. The convictions resulted from a scheme in which the defendants, Marco Cardoso-Cisneros and Jacqueline Garza-Hernandez, obtained the names, social security numbers and dates of…