Barbara Watson, Helen Bates, Leroy Sanchez, Amanda Toscano and others of their ilk are the reason you need LifeLock.
Watson, of Albuquerque NM, seems to have been the ringleader of the identity theft ring and was indicted on 79 counts of identity theft.
Police found stolen credit cards belonging to 31 other people when they searched Bates’ home last summer. Bates said she got the credit cards from Sanchez. They also found photocopies of 62 checks written to a gas station where Bates used to work. Bates used the check information to steal roughly $83,000 from the victims’ checking accounts.
Police also found stolen mail, and on Bates’ computers they found evidence that she was also printing fraudulent checks and driver’s licenses. As a bonus, they discovered all the material needed for manufacturing methamphetamine when they searched the shed behind her house.
Bates faces three counts of altering, forging or making a fictitious license and one count each of dealing in credit cards of another and conspiracy to commit identity theft.
Sanchez was charged with fraudulently signing credit cards and conspiracy to commit forgery. Toscano was charged with identity theft. Watson was charged with ID theft and conspiracy to commit forgery.
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That will teach those future ID theft rings to pay their storage bills.
sometimes i think there are more of them than there are of us.