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Mississippi Identity Theft Task Force Nets Guilty Plea In $250,000 Identity Fraud Scheme

Latosha Rogers pled guilty in federal court to an identity theft fraud scheme that spanned at least three states, U.S. Attorney Dunn Lampton announced today. Rogers waived indictment and pled to an information charging her with devising a scheme to defraud more than 36 different retail merchants in Mississippi. As part of her plea, Rogers admitted that, using multiple Louisiana identity cards under various names, she opened more than two dozen accounts at banks in Texas, Mississippi, and Louisiana. Rogers acknowledged that she then emptied the accounts, but continued to write more than 1500 checks, totaling in excess of $250,000, to Mississippi merchants on the accounts after they had been closed. Rogers faces a maximum penalty of twenty years imprisonment and a $250,000 fine when she is sentenced on May 26, 2007.

U.S. Attorney Lampton credited the Mississippi Identity Theft Task Force for the plea in this case. The U.S. Attorney’s Office formed the Identity Theft Task Force in 2006 to combine federal, state, and municipal resources in combating identity theft and fraud throughout the state. Don Martin of the Ridgeland Police Department, Doug Tyrone of the Mississippi Attorney General’s Office, and the United States Secret Service were instrumental in investigating the case, which was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney David Fulcher of the U.S. Attorney’s Office and Trial Attorney Kathleen Hamann of the Fraud Section of the Department of Justice.

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