Stan Harris, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi, and Allen Bryant, Resident Agent in Charge of the United States Secret Service, announced that Jermaine McClure of Jackson, Mississippi, entered a guilty plea to Aggravated Identity Theft. Sentencing is scheduled for October 1. McClure faces a mandatory sentence of two years in…
Category: ID Theft
Two indicted in aggravated id theft
In Alabama, Sharlie Felecia Hyde and Tiffany Michelle Howard have been charged in a federal three-count indictment for aggravated identity theft and credit card fraud. Count One charges credit card fraud. Between June 27, 2005 and August 11, 2005, Hyde and Howard aided and abetted each other in changing the credit card account information of…
Bits ‘n Pieces
In the justice system: Stephen Bradford pleaded guilty to aggravated identity theft and faces a mandatory sentence of two years in federal prison, a fine of up to $250,000, and restitution to ID theft victims. More. Three British Columbia residents and two Winnipeg women are accused in a credit card scam involving stolen and forged…
ID theft suspect’s charter rights breached
A provincial court judge has ruled a Chilliwack man arrested for allegedly violating other people’s personal domain had his own charter rights violated by police, though the police evidence against the accused will be admitted into the trial. Leigh Taylor Brandon faces 12 counts of identity theft offences, including fraud, possessing stolen property, possession and…
Ringleader of high-tech pickpocket gang pleads guilty
One of the ringleaders of a high-tech national pickpocket and identity theft gang that kept police around the country on their toes for at least two years pleaded guilty on Wednesday. Clyde Austin Gray, Jr., 52, of Waldorf, Maryland, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bank fraud in a scheme that resulted in losses of…
Update on Alico breach
Insurance firm Alico Japan said Monday the suspected leakage of its customers’ credit card information may have led to about 2,200 cases of credit card fraud, more than twice as many as in its previous announcement. Kazuyuki Takahashi, representative of the Japanese insurer affiliated with American International Group Inc, told a press conference that credit…