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PERUVIAN NATIONAL SENTENCED FOR CREDIT CARD CONSPIRACY THAT TARGETED ELDERLY WOMEN
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – October 9, 2008 - John F. Wood, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a third Peruvian national has been sentenced in federal court for participating in a conspiracy to steal credit cards from elderly women, then make thousands of dollars in purchases with the [...]
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FORMER MORTGAGE BROKER SENTENCED FOR MORTGAGE FRAUD, IDENTITY THEFT
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – (July 15, 2008) John F. Wood, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Lee’s Summit, Mo., woman was sentenced in federal court today for a mortgage fraud scheme in which she used stolen identities to purchase homes in Lee’s Summit.
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Two Plead Guilty to Wire Fraud That Involved Stealing Hundreds of identities - Primarily From Nursing Home Residents
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – (April 16, 2008) - John F. Wood, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that two co-defendants pleaded guilty in federal court today to wire fraud for their roles in a multi-million dollar scheme that involved stealing the identities of hundreds of victims, primarily nursing home residents, [...]
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OWNERS/OPERATORS OF ASIAN MASSAGE PARLORS PLEAD GUILTY TO COERCING PROSTITUTION, MONEY LAUNDERING, IDENTITY THEFT
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – (AUGUST 21, 2008) - John F. Wood, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that three owners and operators of Asian massage parlors in Johnson County, Kan., pleaded guilty in federal court today to engaging in human trafficking by coercing their employees, whom they recruited from China, to [...]
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Personal Identifying Information stolen from Car Dealership & Real Estate Loan Brokerage Firm - One man gets 19 years in Prison
Kansas City, Mo. – John F. Wood, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that two more defendants were sentenced in federal court today for participating in an identity theft conspiracy. A 40 year old man of Kansas City, Mo., and a 29 year old woman of Plano, Texas, were sentenced [...]
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Missouri Trooper stops Identity Thief, finds 66 Counterfeit Drivers Licenses, 103 Social Security numbers, forged checks and more…………
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – (September 11, 2008) John F. Wood, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Kan., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to possessing dozens of counterfeit driver’s licenses as well as implements used to make more identification documents. The 42 year old identity thief [...]
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STATE PRISONERS CHARGED PHONE CALLS TO IDENTITY THEFT VICTIMS - SOME VICTIMS WERE MENTALLY DISABLED
Jefferson City, Mo.- (March 2008) John F. Wood, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man who was formerly incarcerated in a state prison and a Jefferson City, Mo., woman who was formerly employed by the Missouri Department of Revenue were each sentenced in federal court [...]
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THREE CHARGED WITH IDENTIFY THEFT OF DISABLED VETERANS AT BEDFORD V.A. HOSPITAL
BOSTON, MA - (September 29, 2008) Three Lowell residents were charged today in federal court with conspiracy, identity fraud, and access device fraud.
United States Attorney Michael J. Sullivan, Jeffrey Hughes, Special Agent in Charge of the Northeast Field Office of the Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General and Stephen D. Ricciardi, Special Agent in Charge [...] -
Kentucky Pickpocket/Identity Thief Pleads Guilty
We wrote an article not long ago on pickpocketing and how the crime is committed with various diversions. In this article we are going to describe the ingenious distractions used by these identity thieves and hopefully we will all be the wiser. We do not want to use names, so we will call this [...]


