Nick McCarthy reports: Two teenage Birmingham brothers have been quizzed over a £1million credit card fraud that sparked co-ordinated raids in England, Finland, Spain and Canada. West Midlands Police swooped on a house in Great Barr and arrested an 18-year-old man on suspicion of fraud and cybercrime offences. Officers also spoke to the teenager’s 15-year-old brother at the…
Category: ID Theft
Broward Health patient data stolen for fraud ring
Dan Christensen reports: For the second time in three years, a data breach at Broward Health has caused the release of personal patient information in what one district executive called “a ring of thugs.” Broward Health disclosed the breach on its website last month, saying it was advised by “law enforcement authorities” on May 12…
Ringleader Of Tampa Credit Card Fraud And Identity Theft Ring Sentenced To More Than 16 Years In Prison
Tampa, FL – U.S. District Judge James S. Moody, Jr. today sentenced Michel Lermos-Hernandez (40, Tampa) to 16 years and 7 months in federal prison for conspiracy to commit bank fraud and aggravated identity theft. The Court also ordered him to pay $714,383.51 in restitution to his victims. Lermos-Hernandez pleaded guilty on March 2, 2016….
CA: Former Davis apartment manager gets prison for ID theft
Lauren Keene reports: The former property manager for an East Davis apartment complex was sentenced to four years and three months in prison Thursday for committing identity theft and other crimes, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced Friday. William Raymond Stanley Jr., 31, of Sacramento, was living at the Tuscany Villas apartments, 2526 E. Eighth St.,…
NC: Two Men Sentenced To Prison On Wire Fraud Conspiracy Charges For Attempting To Steal More Than $1.3 Million Through Unauthorized Wire Transfers
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Jamel Ski Yates, a/k/a “Goo,” 43, of Charlotte, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Robert J. Conrad, Jr. to 36 months in prison on federal wire fraud conspiracy charges for attempting to steal more than $1.3 million through unauthorized wire transfers, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District…
Two Indicted for Conspiracy, Wire Fraud, and Aggravated Identity Theft
WILMINGTON – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina announced that a federal grand jury in Wilmington, North Carolina returned a five-count indictment charging JONES TYLER MARTIN and HAILEY TYKOSKI with conspiring to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and aiding and abetting. The Indictment alleges that that from approximately 2013 to May,…