Fitzsimmons was shot last summer when three other North Andover officers arrived at her home on Phillips Brook Road to serve her a restraining order. She was on leave at the time due to struggles with postpartum depression, she has said publicly.
In the second amended complaint, Guo claims that after she was the victim of identity theft, the financial institution and credit bureau defendants continued to report and attempt to collect fraudulent debts after she provided proof of the fraud. In doing such she alleges that they violated federal and California consumer protection laws by failing to properly investigate and correct her credit reports.
Matthew A. Akande, 37, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani to eight years in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release. Akande was also ordered to pay $1,393,230 in restitution. Akande was arrested in October 2024 at Heathrow Airport in the United Kingdom at the request of the United States and extradited to the United States on March 5, 2025.
Identity theft: Saratoga residents reported that someone used their personal information to access their investment account and made several fraudulent transactions for a loss of about $33,000. Theft by false pretenses: A Saratoga resident reported contacting someone after completing an internet search for garage door companies. The victim sent money but never received the door for a total loss of about $2,724.
From April 2023 to February 2024, the U.S. attorney's office said Nguyen sent emails threatening to kill a man identified in court documents as T.H. and his wife and included screenshots of texts discussing hiring a hit man for $15,000 to kill T.H.'s wife. Nguyen also stalked five employees at the U.S. Consulate in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, sometimes impersonating T.H.'s wife and threatening the consulate, federal prosecutors said.
The e-commerce giant's data breach exposed 33.7 million customers-nearly two-thirds of the entire country's population-after hackers operated undetected for five months through overseas servers. Police have identified a former Chinese employee as the primary suspect, who exploited stolen encryption keys and authentication vulnerabilities to access customer names, phone numbers, email addresses, and delivery information. The suspect fled the country before authorities could make an arrest.
Identity theft: Saratoga residents reported that someone used their personal information to access their financial investment account and made fraudulent transactions totaling approximately $12,600. The transactions were cancelled, and no financial loss was incurred. Jan. 10 Theft by false pretenses: A Saratoga resident reported that someone hacked a former coworker's social media account, posted a vehicle for sale and collected approximately $12,000 from them via wire transfer, but then never provided the vehicle.
British identity packages, including an ID scan, a selfie, and a dossier of personal data, can be purchased by criminals on the dark web for as little as 30, new research suggests. As identity theft continues to rise, experts have discovered the sale of national identity documents, driving licences, credit card details and 2,000 UK frequent traveller passports. The information can be exploited in multiple ways and used to apply for credit cards, mortgages, car loans, or to open bank accounts.
A Brazilian former police chief, who fled the country after he was convicted as an accomplice in the attempted coup by Brazil's far-right ex-President Jair Bolsonaro, has been arrested in Paraguay, according to the country's immigration agency. Silvinei Vasques was arrested on Friday at the Silvio Pettirossi International Airport in Paraguay's capital Asuncion, the Paraguayan National Migration Directorate (DNM) said in a statement posted on its website.
The Online Tool Center explained, that little barcode on the bottom contains all of your personal information, which is used when you scan your passport, allowing "border control officers and other authorities to quickly retrieve and verify your details such as your name, nationality, and passport number." The website noted the barcode also contains a ton of useful information that agents can use to assist you if your passport is stolen.
Criminal threats, dissuade victim, resisting/delaying arrest: At 9:37 a.m., deputies responded to a disturbance in front of the Bank Bar on Big Basin Way. An investigation revealed the suspect made criminal threats toward the victim and threatened to kill the victim if he called 911 to report the incident. The suspect resisted but was ultimately arrested and booked into main jail.
Theft by access card: At 2:25 p.m. at the Wells Fargo bank on Big Basin Avenue, someone used a ruse to swap debit cards with another person. The suspect then used the other person's debit card to make an unauthorized withdrawal of approximately $8,433. Grand theft: At 7:15 p.m. in a parking lot in the 20000 block of Fourth Street, someone fled with a box of Pokemon cards valued at $1,600 without paying after meeting the seller to see the cards.
Using apartments in the San Fernando Valley and Glendale area, a shadowy group of identity thieves has been quietly exploiting a new kind of victim - foreign scholars who left the U.S. years ago but whose Social Security numbers still linger in American databases, according to a cybercrime expert. Criminals are resurrecting these dormant identities and submitting hundreds of applications for bank accounts and credit cards, says David Maimon, head of fraud insights at SentiLink and a criminology professor at Georgia State University.
Michael Prime sought to recover his belongings from police custody following his release from prison, including a bright orange external hard drive that he claimed held 3,443 Bitcoins. The Secret Service sent letters to Prime after his release, saying he could have some of his devices back, which would be wiped if he provided them with relevant passwords within 30 days. If not, they'd be wiped and destroyed in the stated timeframe.
A man charged with an elaborate real estate scheme in New York City is not who he claims to be. Initially, investigators at the Queens district attorney's office charged him as Carl Avinger. But in March, they got a call from a man who had seen the case in the news saying he was the real Carl Avinger, and that the man they arrested had stolen his identity.
