Father arrested for using dead son’s identity

It goes against the laws of nature for parents to have to bury their children. But, that’s what David Frank Pflegl had to do in 1987 as the survivor of an auto accident that killed his 19-year-old son, David Frank Pflegl II. It is probably one of the hardest most painful things for any parent to do. However, the senior Pflegl, 63, found a way to keep his son’s memory alive: he committed ID theft, forgery and communication fraud using his dead son’s identity, according to his December indictment.

Pflegl was arrested a week ago in Utah on the identity theft and related charges. Pflegl used his son’s identity to obtain a $140,000 mortgage in Lindon, Utah. He also had driver’s licenses in Oregon and Utah. Additionally, he held a passport in his deceased son’s name—a crime that resulted in a federal investigation by the State Department. Oregon investigators and the Utah Department of Public Safety participated in the identity theft investigation.

Pflegl owns a temporary power supply company and committed identity theft to obtain jobs and auto loans.

The identity theft is believed to have begun in 1995, when the father’s Oregon driver’s license was suspended because of all the traffic tickets he had accumulated. It was then that he first used his son’s information to obtain a new driver’s license.

Pflegle and his family moved to Utah in 2005, and Pflegle again committed identity theft, using the stolen information to get a Utah driver’s license. At the same time, he committed identity theft by using his son’s stolen identity to qualify for a $140,000 mortgage to buy a new home for his family because he had such bad credit.

There are active arrest warrants in the son’s name because his father continued to drive recklessly and be ticketed for it.

Officials say they believe there are more fraudulent loans still outstanding in the son’s name.

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