The Tyler Chicken Express employee who skimmed customers’ card numbers for others to use in an ID theft ring has been sentenced to two years in prison for her role. KYTX reports: Elizabeth Pickrell, 25, has also been ordered to pay restitution totally more than $95,000 to her victims. […] In Tyler alone, more than…
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Wells Fargo manager, Best Buy clerk charged with stealing identities of 9 people
Sergio Bichao reports: Two former employees of a Wells Fargo bank in Warren and a Best Buy in Union are facing charges of stealing the identities of nine people to open fake credit cards and ring up more than $29,000 in purchases. Tinaud Garcon, 21, of Union in Union County, and Thomas Alexis, 30, of…
FL: Ocala Police Officer Arrested In Identity Theft Scheme
An Ocala police officer and several other people were arrested in an elaborate identity theft scheme, police said. Investigators said officer Dana Brown collected the personal information of about 149 drivers so that others in the scheme could open 184 bank accounts to cash fraudulent tax return checks. Police said Brown accessed the information in…
(Update) Former Eastern Michigan University student charged in security breach of students’ information
There’s been an arrest in the Eastern Michigan University breach originally reported in March. The Associated Press reports that a former student has been charged with eight felony counts in connection with the security breach that reportedly involved 45 students’ personal information. They also report that according to university officials, a warrant has been issued…
NC: Stolen ID allegations at Robeson shelter investigated
John Ramsey reports: Lumberton police say they are investigating allegations that the director of a battered women’s shelter stole the identities of six employees before she was fired Monday. Christine Fuller was hired in July as executive director of the Southeastern Family Violence Center. Center board member Ken Windley said Fuller falsified her credentials to…
IA: Inmate church says identities were stolen
A United Methodist congregation made up of inmates at the Iowa Correctional Institute for Women in Mitchellville said an Indianola woman and former inmate used its volunteers’ personal information to steal 40 identities. Women at the Well United Methodist Church said Shelley Bridges, 37, obtained victims’ personal information, including Social Security numbers and birth dates,…