In the justice system: Boynton Beach police announced the dismantling of an organized identity theft ring defrauding unsuspecting victims throughout South Florida. “Operation Decoder Ring” led to charges against 10 people, including Rolando Manuel Figueredo-Triana, on more than 70 counts of organized scheme to defraud, grand theft, criminal use of personal identification, forgery, unauthorized sale…
Category: ID Theft
Prosecutor will seek life sentence for ID theft
As a follow-up to a case reported in a recent “Bits ‘n Pieces” post: Jim Dooley of The Honolulu Advertiser reports that the prosecutor will be seeking a life sentence for Susan Shaw, who is charged with stealing some $160,000 from at least 11 victims from January 2008 through last month. Dooley quotes prosecutor Christopher…
Airman indicted for bank fraud stole fellow airmen’s info
An airman assigned to the 19th Medical Support Squadron at Little Rock Air Force Base was indicted last week for bank fraud in a scheme that involved him stealing the identities of at least seven other people. A copy of the indictment (pdf), provided to this site by the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of…
Bits ‘n Pieces
In the justice system: Yomi Jagunna, one of 8 people arrested last year as part of a New Jersey ring, pleaded guilty for his part in setting up a phony collection agency to obtain access to commercial databases where they obtained Social Security numbers and info. Jagunna pleaded guilty to selling 39 SSN, but prosecutors…
Branch Banking & Trust employee arrested for selling client information
On January 14, law enforcement officials investigating another matter discovered client information from Branch Banking & Trust Co. (BB&T) in the possession of unauthorized individuals. Once alerted to the breach, BB&T conducted an internal investigation and discovered that a former employee who had legitimate access to client accounts had abused the access and had sold…
Bits ‘n Pieces
In the justice system: Susan Shaw has been charged with multiple counts of theft and identity theft. Investigators say she gained access to a financial database and that there are at least 11 victims. More. Mark Pinella, owner of Dino’s Pizza in Fayetteville, has been charged with multiple counts of ID theft for skimming his…