Posts Tagged ‘criminal identity theft’

Drug trafficker arrested, tried, convicted and incarcerated using stolen identity

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009

Somewhere there’s an American citizen—we’ll call him Joe Smith–with a criminal record showing a 2002 federal narcotics conviction. In March, he was arrested as he tried to return to the United States from Mexico. That’s when Customs and Border Patrol officers discovered his tourist visa had been revoked, and there was an outstanding arrest warrant for violating the terms of his supervised release after serving prison time for a 2002 federal narcotics case. (more…)