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Cora Dixon traded a 15-year prison term for her guilty pleas to her activities in an identity theft ring that targeted 100 reservists and sailors at Texas military bases and netted almost $2 million from them.

Dixon worked at the Fort Worth Reserve Joint Base until her arrest and less than honorable discharge in 2007. She used her access to military personnel and payroll records to steal bank account, driver’s license and Social Security numbers from sailors and reservist and then passed that information along to her boyfriend, Seneca Willis, who is considered the ringleader.

A bank teller at Bank of America, Angel Mitchell, told Willis how much money was in the bank accounts. Willis used the information from Dixon and Mitchell to make ID cards and fraudulent checks that were cashed with the cooperation of homeless people Willis and Zachariah Long recruited from local homeless shelters.

Dixon will be sentenced April 13. Willis, Mitchell and Long are all scheduled for March 9 court appearances. Willie Anderson and Lester Conion have already received their sentences for cashing the checks. Anderson got a 2-year prison sentence; Conion received a 10-year probation term.

There’s another suspect who has yet to be arrested.

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