Two Miami-Dade County residents were sentenced to prison terms for their participation in a stolen identity tax fraud scheme based on information discovered while they were boarding a flight at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. Phillip Collins, 29, of Miami Gardens, was sentenced to 25 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release. Godfrey…
Category: ID Theft
Former Comptroller of Albuquerque Construction Company Sentenced to Prison for Defrauding Firm
AP is reporting that Stephanie Pyle, 40, has been sentenced to 4 1/2 years in prison for fraud and identity theft. She was also ordered to pay more than $2.4M in restitution. Pyle was arraigned in February, 2015 after a grand jury returned a 12-count indictment charging her with six counts of access device fraud and…
FL: Pensacola man arrested for stealing personal information from job seekers
TaMaryn Waters reports: A 19-year-old Escambia County man has been arrested on charges of identity theft following an investigation by the Tallahassee Police Department and the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity. Investigators learned Gerald Howard Washington, of Pensacola, posted online advertisements claiming he was searching for candidates to fill 1,100 local positions. According to the…
MS: Meridian Residents Sentenced to Prison for Stolen Identify Tax Refund Fraud
Joyce Knight, 38, and Daniel Kelley, 41, both of Meridian, have been sentenced by U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate for their roles in a conspiracy to steal identities of state inmates and to use those stolen identities to file false federal income tax returns, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis and Jerome R. McDuffie, Special…
Six Cuban Nationals Indicted for Conspiracy to Commit Access Device Fraud, Access Device Fraud in Skimmers scheme
U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced Friday that six Cuban nationals who reside in Florida were indicted for conspiracy to commit access device fraud and two counts of access device fraud. JULIET ESTRADA PEREZ, age 22; LUIS RIVERA GARCIA, age 26, JESUS ENRIQUE GONZALES TORRES, age 23, ORLANDO GUILLEN DIAZ, age 29, YOETNIS VAZQUEZ PEDROSA, age 31, and YILIAM TORRES, age 23,…
Florida man sentenced to 10 years in prison for his role in ID theft fraud scheme
Why, oh why, don’t they tell us how/where the stolen identity information was obtained? Benoit Placide, a/k/a “Snow,” a/k/a “Mario,” 26, of West Palm Beach, was sentenced to 120 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay joint and several restitution in the amount of $742,955 for his role…