Archive for January 2013

Florida Health Clinic Intern Charged with Identity Theft The Florida Times-Union’s Dana Treen reports that Daremia Nikeka Crews, 24, has been charged with fraudulent use of personal identification information after her cell phone was found to have been used to photograph the names and Social Security numbers of 261 people on lists at Jacksonville’s Brentwood…

Identity Theft: Florida Man Allegedly Planned to File 100 False Tax Returns Sunrise, FL — An early morning traffic stop led to a man being busted in possession of personal information on more than 100 persons, some of whom were dead. When police approached the suspect who was parked at a local condominium at about…

South Florida identity thieves jailed in $3 million tax refund case A woman who stole more than $3 million in less than three months by illegally filing fraudulent income tax returns — many on behalf of dead people — was sentenced Monday to 2 1/2 years in federal prison. Sabrina Balkman-Bradwell, 47, who is also…

Paper Shredding Facilities Can Help Your Company with Document Destruction Paper shredding facilities can provide services to companies who want to get rid of their boxes of stored paper documents and change over to an electronic document storage system. Paper documents can take up vast amounts of storage space. By employing a mobile paper shredding…

Thieves steal thousands of South Floridians’ IDs to file fake tax refunds The couple arrived at Morton’s Steakhouse in downtown Fort Lauderdale ready to do business. The product they were selling: a flash drive with 700,000 stolen identifications that could be used to file fraudulent tax returns and rake in millions of dollars, according to…