33-year-old mom commits identity theft, uses daughter’s identity to become high-school cheerleader
Give me an I!
Give me at D!
Give me a T!
Give me a H!
Give me an E!
Give me an F!
Give me a T!
What’s it spell? ID THEFT!
Identity theft charges have been filed against Wendy Brown, of Ashwaubenon, Wisconsin for using her daughter’s Social Security card, birth certificate, official school transcript and other personal documentation to enroll at the local high school. Why? She wanted to be a cheerleader. And if she hadn’t been arrested her dream would have come true.
Brown registered at the high school as a 15-year-old transfer student and tried out for the cheerleading squad. Being picked as a cheerleader meant she was that much closer to realizing her dream. She attended a party with the other kids at the cheerleading coach’s house, and went to classes with them on the first day of school.
That’s when things started to unravel. When the $134.50 check she wrote to pay for her cheerleading uniform bounced, school officials became suspicious. (To be fair, it might have been an honest mistake; she had confided in a school employee that she wasn’t very good at math.) But when she didn’t show up for the next several school days, a truancy officer began investigating.
Brown had a legitimate excuse for missing so many school days, though; she’d already been arrested on unrelated misdemeanor charge and was serving detention in the county pokey.
Prior charges against Brown include deceptive practices, obstructing a law officer, burglary. This latest stunt resulted in charges of felony identity theft, theft through deceptive practices and forgery.
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