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NEWPORT NEWS, Va. – A federal grand jury returned an indictment today charging a Portsmouth woman with wire fraud and aggravated identity theft in connection with a scheme to defraud veterans.
According to allegations in the indictment, Rita Copeland, 59, operated “Veteran Services of the Commonwealth.”
Officials say Copeland purported
“The woman brazenly walked up to the victim’s shopping cart, reached into her purse and took her cellphone,” the post shared by Moraine police Tuesday on its Facebook page stated.
Now, police are asking for anyone who can identify the
MOBILE, ALA. (WALA)- Mobile Police have arrested a woman they call a “major player” in an identity theft ring. So far, detectives have identified 30 victims of the ring and there may be many more. FOX10 News has also learned the Secret Service is part of the massive investigation.
The
TOPEKA, Kan. (KSNT) – Kansas is seeing an increase in unemployment claim fraud, and it’s happening all across the country. With the increase of unemployment claims due to the pandemic — comes identity theft.
Sonia Olmos has been working from home since March, but she wasn’t out of a job.
A woman who was accused of stealing another person’s identity and taking $30,000 from their bank account has had all charges dropped against her after months working to clear her name.
For five months, Elmont
Lyndsay Hawk, 34, appeared in court during the felony court proceedings for her sentencing hearing in connection to the four felony charges she previously pleaded guilty to, which include identity theft, forgery, grand theft in the amount of more than $5,000 and less than $100,000 and another count of grand
The investigation appears to show that Bernstein was at a boyfriend’s near east side apartment on the night of June 23 before she left to drive to her brother’s home in Middleton. Police interviewed her boyfriend and reviewed Snapchat messages between them in which Bernstein does state that she was
BEACHWOOD, Ohio — Theft: Cedar Road
At 2:40 p.m. Sept. 26, police arrested a Rittman, Ohio woman, 35, for stealing merchandise valued at $372.75 from Dillard’s. The woman was charged with theft and arrested on warrants issued by the Summit County Sheriff’s Office, the Wayne County Sheriff’s Office and
A Las Vegas attorney, recently charged with writing $400,000 in bad checks, told police in 2017 that he used cocaine with a woman who died of a drug overdose.
He also acknowledged that he never called authorities to report her death, according to police records.
Attorney Brian Padgett, 47, told