Thread: IL: Another resident's identity stolen -this one 7 years old

Lot's of comments about this article! People are very mad about this. I called the social security office last year about my children -guess I better call again and look into how to put their numbers on hold.



Another Carpentersville resident's identity stolen -- this one 7 years old
By Gene Haschak | Daily Herald Staff

Published: 2/23/2008 12:27 AM


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Another Carpentersville resident has gotten a notice from the IRS, demanding back taxes on income.

The IRS says the resident owes taxes on $60,000.

Only this victim is 7. Yes, a second-grader.

He's the latest Carpentersville resident, police said Friday, to fall victim to identity theft.

He may, however, be the youngest.

His identity has been in use by someone else since 2001.

Detectives accused a Streamwood man of using the boy's personal information not long after the boy was born in 2001.

Cirilo Centeno, 29, of 1101 Sunnydale Blvd., was charged with felony identity theft, an offense that could land him in jail for between four and 15 years if he is convicted.

The victim's mother claimed the boy as a dependent on her 2007 income tax and was informed by the IRS she could not -- that his Social Security number was being used by someone else.

In 2005, she had filed a report with police because someone was using her son's Social Security number to obtain unemployment benefits and her son was only 4 years old at the time.

Police didn't get far in that investigation.

This time, Carpentersville police contacted the unemployment office in Elgin and learned the offender had just filed another claim to receive benefits.

They were able to locate a telephone number and called Centeno, who identified himself by the name of the 7-year-old, police said.

Police were able to obtain an address from the man on the telephone and two detectives drove to his home in Streamwood, police said.

According to a report, Centeno showed police a Social Security card bearing the name of the victim and Centeno's photo.

Centeno said he has used the Social Security card with the victim's information to obtain a truck, three separate jobs, gas and electrical service for his home, a credit card, unemployment benefits twice for a total of six months, and over $60,000 in pay and services, police said.

Centeno said he bought the card for $50 from a friend and used it because he is in the country illegally, police said.

Centeno's bond was set at $15,000 and he was sent to the Kane County jail.

His next court date is scheduled for March 12 at the Kane County Judicial

http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=140579



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You can vent all you want at the individual Mexicans who are destroying your country. But understand that the Mexican illegal alien scandal is the biggest criminal event in American history because it is supported by rich and powerful business and political elites across America. Importing Third World poverty into America benefits greedy businesses seeking peon labor for the jobs they can't send to China and Mexico and the racist, corrupt politicians who prosper in societies of poverty, crime and ignorance. Their media allies are happy to cover up this criminal arrangement and spew out propaganda about "immigration" and "undocumented workers." From the top to the bottom, from Obama, Blago, and Durbin down to Noland, Munson, and Sarto, your "public servants" are working on behalf of corrupt businesses, the criminal government of Mexico and its citizens and selling you into Mexican serfdom. These are the people you should be raging against and should remove from American public life. Then we need a Mexican Impact Tax requiring every employer to pay 50 dollars a day for every employed Mexican, both to discourage the use of illegal peon labor and to cover its social cost.posted by maroon on Sat Feb 23, 2008 3:09 PMReport this comment as inappropriateReport Abuse

http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-105297-car ... ville.html

Zeezil posted an interesting article how some MSM 'forgot' to mention that the culprit was in the country illegally.

added to the homepage

http://www.alipac.us/article2987.html

This is another prime example of how illegal immigration is NOT a victimless crime.

We need our activists to focus more on the American victims of illegal immigration.

W

Isn't it funny how the IRS can pick up on this when someone files their taxes yet people who hire these people claim to have no idea they are hiring people using stolen SSN? I remember watching a woman on I think Lou Dobba who had her ID stolen over 80 and she couldn't even get a job because she had a felony on her record thanks to an IA yet all those other people were using her SSN to work while she had to fight to clear her name. IA is not a victimless crime and that false belief needs to be brought out of the shadows because lets face it IA aren't in the shadows they are out spending our tax payer money or committing more crimes.

Big contributing problem - IRS, social security administration, and DHS do not share databases.

Rep. Heath Shuler's SAVE Act will have social security and DHS share, but not IRS!

IRS has best data, as it is usually updated yearly and very reliably by taxpayers to stay out of trouble!

I saw this ran on one of the network news channels last night. The reporter didn’t mention it was an IA and laughed about it like it was some kind of joke, how pathetic!

i lived in c-ville 5yrs.the feds now can round up the rest of the 20k illegals useing fake docs to posses autos and homes, etc. 1 criminal is a good start!

Just maybe this will happen to a congress person's grandchild. THEN maybe something serious would be done about this serious problem.