Sammamish Police Blotter: Man's Wallet Stolen While he Washes, Items Snatched From House for Sale, Cash Deposit Missed at Gamestop, Bogus Cashier's Check #legal411

Tuesday, July 12

Identity Theft: A man living on Northeast 42nd Way contacted police after several strange shipments of electronic goods had been sent to his home from Amazon.com. Fearing identity theft, the man contacted Amazon and police and reported the suspicious purchases.

Thursday, July 14

Burglary: A couple with a nearly vacant house for sale on 216th Avenue Northeast contacted police after a neighbor informed them that the garage door had been open for a day and that he had closed it. Concerned, the owners went to the house and found the secure key box missing and front door unlocked. Upon inspection, the owners found that a portable air conditioning unit and a stereo receiver were missing. A black or brown 2005 or 2006 Dodge Ram 1500 pickup truck had been seen backed up to the garage earlier, along with two men and one woman.

Friday, July 15

Fraud: A man living on Northeast 33rd Place contacted police after he received a $2,650 cashier’s check as part of a suspicious job he found on Craigslist. When he showed the check to a teller at a local Bank of America branch he was informed that the check was a fake and that they had seen several such checks recently.

Saturday, July 16

DUI: Police arrested two 20-year-old men after they were pulled over near Northeast 12th Street and 228th Avenue Northeast. The driver blew a .132 on the Breathalyzer and was arrested for DUI, while his under-age passenger was arrested for intoxication.

Monday, July 18

Accident – Non Injury: Sammamish police arrested a 27-year-old Issaquah man after he caused a two-car accident on Northeast 8th Street and told police that he had no insurance and a suspended license. The man’s vehicle license had also expired. His vehicle was impounded and he was charged with Driving While License Suspended in the 1st Degree.

Thursday, July 21

Larceny: A loss prevention official at the Gamestop store on Northeast 8th Street contacted police to report that a morning manager had failed to make a regular cash deposit of $1,414.20 on the morning of July 12. Several other deposits had not been made in a timely manner as well.

Friday, July 22

Burglary: A Sammamish man living on Northeast 29th Street contacted police after discovering that someone had entered his home and stolen a laptop computer and wallet while he was taking a shower upstairs. The man found no doors open or any signs of forced entry, leading him to believe the person entered through an unlocked sliding glass door. The man’s debit card was used shortly thereafter at a nearby Shell station and Fred Meyer.

Medical Assistance: Police transported an intoxicated man to Overlake Hospital Medical Center for detoxification after he had to be taken into custody for fighting and yelling at others.

Saturday, July 23

DUI: Police arrested a 22-year-old woman for DUI after she was pulled over on West Beaver Lake Drive Southeast. The woman failed field sobriety tests and blew a .107 on the Breathalyzer. The woman’s vehicle was impounded and she was transported to City Hall.

Sunday, July 24

Driving While License Revoked: Police arrested a 30-year-old woman after she was pulled over for driving in two lanes on 228th Avenue Southeast. Suspecting drunk driving, police pulled the vehicle over and discovered that the driver had a suspended license.

Driving While License Revoked:Police arrested a 41-year-old man for driving with a suspended license after he was pulled over near Southeast Issaquah-Fall City Road and the Issaquah-Pine Lake Road.

Editor's note: For questions about this blotter, email brad.wong@patch.com. 

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Plea deal set for Bonnie Sweeten, who stole $1M, faked kidnap

By MICHAEL HINKELMAN
Philadelphia Daily News

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A Bucks County woman who federal prosecutors say bilked a law firm and its clients and an individual retirement account of almost $1 million and then staged her own abduction in 2009, has decided to plead guilty next Tuesday in federal district court.

Bonnie Sweeten, 40, formerly of Feasterville, was charged by a federal grand jury in May 2010 with fraud, aggravated identity theft and related offenses and has been held without bail since then.

Neither Sweeten's attorney, federal defender James J. McHugh Jr., nor Assistant U.S. Attorney Denise Wolf, commented yesterday after a document was filed with the court that indicated that Sweeten would change her plea.

If convicted of all charges, Sweeten could face nine to 10 years behind bars, a federal judge said last year when denying her request for bail.

Sweeten's trial had been expected to start in federal court on June 20, but a court filing on March 16 by McHugh had asked for a delay.

"More time is needed to determine if the matter can be resolved by way of a non-trial disposition," he wrote.

Sweeten, a mother of three, gained national attention in 2009 when she claimed that she and her then-9-year-old daughter had been kidnapped by two black men.

In fact, she was on her way to Florida, allegedly using a fake identity. She fled as authorities were investigating allegations that she had stolen $700,000 from clients of a Feasterville law firm, where she worked as a paralegal.

Authorities also said that she plundered the retirement account of her ex-husband's grandfather to the tune of $280,000.

The thefts allegedly occurred between November 2005 and May 2009.

Sweeten allegedly spent the stolen money on clothing, entertainment, jewelry, restaurants, tanning salons, mortgage payments, furniture, electronics, medical services and children's activities.

She served a 10-month sentence in Bucks County prison after pleading guilty in August 2009 to identity theft and making false reports.

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IRS sees staggering jump in identity theft cases | Reuters Wealth

Identity theft fraud caught by the IRS has skyrocketed since 2008, the Government Accountability Office said in a report released this week.

n 2010, the GAO said the IRS found 245,000 cases of identity fraud — cases in which Social Security numbers of others were used to either falsely try to collect a refund or to get work and avoid taxes. That is up from fewer than 52,000 cases in 2008.

A particularly scary part of the crime is that the victims have no way to protect themselves.

“The incidence of tax-related identity fraud is indeed staggering,” said Paul Stephens, director of policy and advocacy for Privacy Rights Clearinghouse. “The number of reported cases significantly undercounts the actual numbers because there tends to be a significant delay in detecting most cases of tax-related identity fraud.”

He said the government is somewhat hamstrung from doing more to protect the victims.

“Unfortunately, various laws constrain the IRS from taking more aggressive action to curtail this abuse,” Stephens said. “For consumers, tax-related identity theft can be extremely difficult to resolve, despite the fact that IRS has set up a special unit to assist taxpayers with this problem. Other than trying to protect their Social Security numbers from unnecessary disclosure, there is little that consumers can do to protect themselves from this type of identity theft. ”

According to the GAO, privacy laws sharply limit information that is shared with victims and even with criminal investigators.

“IRS cannot disclose to the taxpayer any other information pertaining to employment or refund fraud, such as the perpetrator’s identity or any information about the perpetrator’s employer,” the GAO reported. “Additionally, IRS has limited authorities to share identity theft information with other federal agencies.”

Even in criminal investigations, the IRS can share very limited information with federal investigators and less with state and local authorities, the GAO said.

The growth in the number of cases appears due in large part to the IRS building screens in its computer systems to do such things as flag filings using the Social Security numbers of the dead (a recent pilot project). The GAO said in many instances it is the legitimate taxpayer’s filing that triggers the alert to the IRS because it appears as though a duplicate return has been entered into the system. Because of the confusion, the processing of the return of the legitimate taxpayer gets delayed.

Similarly, when a fraud uses someone else’s Social Security number to get a job, it appears as though the victim has unreported income. That actually triggers a notice sent to the victim telling them they failed to report all their income.

The GAO also reported that the IRS has made some progress in trying to get a handle on this kind of fraud. One step has been to help those who are already known victims of identity theft. Those taxpayers are channeled to a special unit set up for victims who might otherwise get trapped in the bureaucracy.

Some known victims — about 56,000 — were also assigned special personal identification numbers to further protect their returns.

At a minimum, people need to not make it easier for thieves to get the Social Security Numbers. Here is a list from the Federal Trade Commission of the main ways Social Security Numbers are stolen:

• From workplaces
• By pay an employee who has access to these records
• Hacking into the records
• Stealing mail with personal financial information
• “Dumpster diving”
• By posing as a landlord, employer or someone else who may have a legal right to access your report
• Stealing your wallet or purse
• Completing a change of address form to divert your mail
• Posing as a legitimate company and coaxing you to reveal the information by phone, a web form or by email

 

 

 

 

Best, Paul

 

 

 

Paul Stephens

 

Director of Policy and Advocacy

 

Privacy Rights Clearinghouse

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The Snellville Police Blotter - Snellville, GA Patch

The following is a listing of reported Snellville Police and Gwinnett County Police activity from May 16-23. (Note: Listing is based on reports from www.crimemapping.com for Gwinnett PD and reports submitted directly from Snellville PD and Gwinnett PD. In addition, these reports are not an indication of proven guilt. All suspects are innocent until proven otherwise.)

Inside city limits:

May 23: Possession of marijuana (less than 1 oz.) was reported on the 2200 block of Scenic Highway.

May 23: Identity fraud was reported on the 2200 block of Crimson Creek Lane.

May 23: Financial transaction card fraud was reported on the 1500 block of Scenic Highway.

May 23: Criminal trespass was reported on the 2500 block of Springdale Drive.

May 23: Simple battery (family member) was reported on the 2400 block of Maple Street.

May 23: Possession of marijuana (less than 1 oz.) was reported on the 2200 block of Scenic Highway.

May 22: Theft by receiving stolen property was reported on the 2500 block of West Ronald Reagan Parkway.

May 22: Verbal dispute was reported on the 2500 block of Pierce Circle.

May 22: Theft by shoplifting was reported at Walmart on the 1500 block of Scenic Highway.

May 22: Criminal trespass was reported on the 2700 block of Springdale Road.

May 22: Possession of marijuana (felony) was reported on the 1900 block of Ridgedale Drive.

May 21: Possession of marijuana (less than 1 oz.) was reported on the 2000 block of East Main Street.

May 21: Theft by shoplifting was reported at the Walmart on the 1500 block of Scenic Highway.

May 21: Drug-related objects were reported on the 1700 block of Scenic Highway.

May 21: Drug-related objects were reported on the 2400 block of East Main Street.

May 20: DUI arrests (alcohol) was reported on the 2200 block of Scenic Highway.

May 20: Loitering (public places) was reported on the 1800 block of Scenic Highway.

May 20: Theft by shoplifting (over $300) was reported at Khols on the 2000 block of Scenic Highway.

May 20: Theft by shoplifting was reported at Walmart on the 1500 block of Scenic Highway.

May 20: Theft by shoplifting was reported at Target on the 1900 block of Scenic Highway.

May 20: Criminal trespass was reported on the 2200 block of Kings Gate Circle.

May 20: Drug-related objects were reported on the 1900 block of Scenic Highway.

May 19: Giving false information (name and date of birth) was reported on the 2400 block of Eastgate Place.

May 19: Theft by taking (felony) was reported on the 2000 block of Tree Lane.

May 19: Giving false information (name and date of birth) was reported on the 3100 block of Pate Drive.

May 19: Loitering (halting or impending traffic flow) was reported on the 2800 block of Springdale Road.

May 19: Theft by taking (felony) was reported on the 1600 block of Janmar Road and Scenic Highway.

May 19: Criminal attempted was reported on the 2500 block of Dorian Drive.

May 18: Theft by taking (felony) was reported on the 2900 block of Williams Place.

May 18: Criminal trespass was reported on the 3000 block of Heavenly Lane.

May 18: Threatening others was reported on the 1600 block of Scenic Highway.

May 18: Theft by shoplifting was reported at the TJ Maxx on the 1900 block of Scenic Highway.

May 18: Theft by taking (misdemeanor) was reported on the 1700 block of Medical Way.

May 18: Possession of marijuana (less than 1 oz.) was reported on the 2200 block of Scenic Highway.

May 18: Obstruction was reported on the 1500 block of Janmar Road.

May 17: Theft of service was reported at Walton EMC on the 2500 block of Dorian Drive. 

May 17: Possessiong of marijuana (less than 1 oz.) was reported on the 2200 block of Scenic Highway.

May 17: Loitering (halting or impending traffic flow) was reported on the 2400 block of East Main Street.

May 17: Drug-related objects were reported on the 1400 block of Scenic Highway.

May 16: Terroristic threats and acts were reported on the 2300 block of Wisteria Drive.

May 16: Stolen vehicle recovery was reported on the 2000 block of Scenic Highway.

May 16: Forgery (2nd degree) was reported on the 2400 block of Eastgate Place.

May 16: DUI arrests were made on the 2300 block of East Ronald Reagan Parkway.

May 16: Theft by shoplifting was reproted on the 1700 block of Scenic Highway.

May 16: Loitering (halting or impending traffic flow) was reported on the 1500 block of Stone Mountain Highway.

Outside city limits, in unincorporated county area:

May 23: Theft by taking was reported on the 3000 block of Centerville Highway.

May 23: Theft by taking was reported on the 2500 block of Northbrook Road.

May 23: Burglary (no forced entry, residence) was reported on the 1300 block of Tree Lane.

May 23: Theft by taking was reported on the 3000 block of Centerville Highway.

May 22: Theft by taking was reported on the 3400 block of Centerville Highway.

May 22: Arson (vehicle) was reported on the 3600 block of Hewatt Court.

May 21: Battery was reported on the 4200 block of Shiloh Road.

May 21: Battery was reported on the 4200 block of Stone Mountain Highway.

May 21: Simple battery was reported on the 2300 block of Georgia Lane.

May 21: DUI arrests were made on Ross Circle and Stone Mountain Highway.

May 19: Attempted burglary (residence) was reported on the 3400 block of Pate Drive.

May 19: Battery was reported on the 2300 block of Rosedale Road.

May 19: Burglary (forced entry, residence) was reported on the 3100 block of Sloping Terrace.

May 19: Vandalism (2nd degree) was reported on the 4200 block of Shiloh Road.

May 19: Battery was reported on the 2400 block of Crumps Landing Road.

May 19: Possession of marijuana (less than 1 oz.) was reported on Bethany Church Road and Stone Mountain Highway.

May 19: Simple battery was reported on the 3700 block of Johnson Drive.

May 18: Identity fraud was reported on the 2900 block of Pebble Lane.

May 17: Possession of marijuana (with intent to distribute) was reported on Lee Road and Mink Livsey Road.

May 17: Possession of marijuana (with intent to distribute) was reported on Lee Road and Mink Livsey Road.

May 16: Theft of lost/mislaid property was reported on the 3400 block of Centerville Highway.

May 16: Burglary (forced entry, residence) was reported on the 2300 block of Temple Johnson Road.

May 16: Burglary (forced entry, residence) was reported on the 4000 block of Red Laurel Way.

May 16: Simple battery was reported on the 4500 block of James Wade Drive.

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What are the different types of identity theft? #legal411

 

 

Credit card fraud is just one type of identity theft. While a thief may use your information to apply for a new credit card, some types of identity theft don't involve credit cards at all. Someone with a bad credit rating may use your personal information to get a car loan, acquire phone, cellular service, or another utility service, or open a bank account in your name.

Such cases of identity fraud can be seriously damaging, since you may not realize anything is wrong until you notice unfamiliar charges on your monthly bills or statements

 

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How identity thieves use your personal information. #legal411

 

• Opening new credit card accounts using your name, date of birth, and Social Security number. When they use the credit cards and don't pay the bills, the delinquency is reported on your credit report.
• Establishing phone or cellular service in your name.
• Opening a bank account in your name and writing bad checks on the account.
• Counterfeiting checks or debit cards, and draining your bank account.
• Buying cars by taking out auto loans in your name.
• Calling your credit card issuer and, pretending to be you, changing the address on the account. Bills get sent to the new address, so you don't realize there's a problem until you check your credit report.
• Filing for bankruptcy using your name to avoid paying debts they've incurred under your name.

 

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How DO thieves steal your Identity? #legal411

First, they steal your personal information by...

• Going through your mail or trash, looking for bank and credit card statements, pre-approved credit offers, and tax information.
• Gaining access to your data that was lost or stolen from a company you do business with.
• Stealing personal information from your wallet or purse such as identification, credit, or bank cards.
• Masquerading as a trusted company web site to trick you into giving them your personal information -- also known as phishing
• Completing change-of-address forms to redirect your mail.
• Installing viruses or trojan horses gain access to data stored on your computer
• Obtaining your credit report by posing as a landlord or someone else who has a lawful right to the information.
• Acquiring personal information you share on sites that lack Internet security.
• Buying personal information about you from an inside source -- for example, a store employee that gets your information from a credit application or by "skimming" your credit card information when you make a purchase.
• Getting your personnel records at work.

 

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