A 29-year-old South Florida woman has admitted she stole someone’s identity, which she then used to rack up $20,000 in debt because she needed to fix her defective breast implants.
Shatarka Nuby also told the judge she had to furnish her new condo.
Nuby pleaded guilty to charges of aggravated identity theft and conspiracy to use unauthorized credit cards. She now faces up to seven years in prison.
The investigation began when U.S. postal inspectors discovered a mail theft that allowed Nuby to receive the victim’s information She and an accomplice stole a college application containing numerous details, and used it to obtain five credit cards in the victim’s name.
In an unrelated case, a former executive director of the West Texas Council of Campfire USA has pleaded guilty to bank fraud and identity theft in a scheme to steal nearly $400,000 from the youth development organization.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office released a statement that 564-year-old Michael Woodson Burney pleaded guilty this week in Midland, Texas to one count of bank fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft.
Burney now faces a mandatory two-year prison sentence and restitution on the identity theft conviction, and up to 30 years and a $1 million fine on the bank fraud conviction.
According to police reports, Burney wrote himself checks from the Campfire bank accounts and then changed accounting records to make it seem as if those checks were paid to vendors used by Campfire USA.
And 31-year-old Jonah Hanneke Nelson, of Dixon, Calif., was sentenced to four years and 10 months in federal prison based on his guilty plea to charges of bank fraud and identity theft. The sentence is to be followed by five years supervise probation.
Nelson was arrested in April 2009 after passing counterfeit checks drawn on victims’ bank accounts. Nelson reportedly had an extensive list of victims’ names, bank account numbers and falsified identification documents at the time of his arrest.
Five banks and 97 individuals were victimized across northern California for a reported loss of $87,957 during a four-month period last year.
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