After a period of non-payment a storage company can sell the sell the contents of the storage unit to anyone willing to pay for it. People who buy these sheds are usually looking for things to sell on eBay and Craiglist. A Denver Colorado man purchased a storage shed and the contents in an auction but didn’t quite get what he bargained for.
Brandon Michael expecting to find furniture, computers and other items instead discovered boxes and filing cabinets full of people’s personal identification information. The information included U.S. Passports, birth certificates, driver’s licenses of more than 150 patients of St. Anthony Central Hospital. Brandon also found dozens of fake IDs, drugs, drug paraphernalia and a printer used to make fake IDs.
Brandon of course was shocked that anyone would steal this much information from people and immediately boxed everything up and took it to the police. When Brandon arrived at the police station he was shocked to find out the police didn’t want the information and they wanted him to get rid of it. The police didn’t even want to dispose of the information properly they just wanted Brandon to dump it somewhere.
Instead of throwing the information away Brandon took the information to 9News, a local news station. 9News went through the information and found out there was information on more than 200 people from around Colorado.
The police did eventually get the files from the news station so that they can carry out their own investigation on the matter. The Hospital has already found the person to blame for the stolen records, and she has been fired. The Hospital intends to press charges on the employee.
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And I’ll bet the police wouldn’t have done anything if he hadn’t taken it to the news. Who can you trust to protect your identity if you can’t trust the police or the hospital?
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