A Berkeley woman was sentenced to state prison Tuesday for using identity theft to steal more than $24,000 in breast work and liposuction from a cosmetic surgeon in Greenbrae. Rosland Renee Edwards, 37, received a term of 32 months by Judge James Ritchie. Part of the sentence was for the Marin case, and part was…
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More charges filed against computer fraud suspect
Martin Robinson Bowling, who pleaded guilty and was sentenced (pdf) to three years in prison for computer fraud in November 2008, is now facing embezzlement and identity theft charges. Bowling, whose sentence had been reduced to probation, is one of five people charged in unrelated id theft charges. According to a news story filed by…
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In the justice system: Melanee R. Fretz, a former bookkeeper at the Kutztown Manor nursing home, was sentenced to nine months of house arrest for stealing the identity of an invalid resident. She was also sentenced to seven years of probation following the house arrest. More. Karina Orduna-Ramirez was charged with four felony counts of…
Deborah Peel: Comments on guilty plea
In response to the guilty plea by three employees of St. Vincent Health System, reported here earlier today, Dr. Deborah Peel of PatientPrivacyRights.org issued the following statement: Facebook users can keep people from seeing their walls, but patients can’t keep anyone from seeing their electronic medical records. What’s interesting is how severe the penalties could…
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In the justice system: A medical student at Saint Joseph College from Nigeria, was charged June 29 in federal court with bank fraud and aggravated identity theft affecting 80 victims. Cambridge police arrested Wayne Deleveaux for using government accounts from Mount Auburn Hospital to fraudulently buy hundreds of BlackBerry Storms last week. He reportedly had…
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In the justice system: David S Patton pleaded guilty to developing a botnet-based spamming tool used by Alan Ralsky. Patton agreed to forfeit an estimated $50,100 from sales of spamming tools called Nexus and Proxy Scanner. Between January 2004 until September 2005, Patton developed and marketing his illegal bulk mailing tools via a firm called…