You notice the reporter doesn't give the residential status of the criminal.

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/15475421.htm

DAVIE
ID-theft scam is smashed, cops say

Police arrested a Hollywood man who they say carried on a sophisticated identity-theft operation.

BY TRENTON DANIEL
tdaniel@MiamiHerald.com

Davie police believe they may have broken up a one-man crime wave Friday when they arrested Pharaoh Nshaka.

This is what they found in his Hollywood home: 38 pieces of identification and credit cards; 60 passports and checkbooks and gift cards; a high-tech printer used to create checks; and two lists of Broward school employees complete with birth dates, addresses, phone numbers -- and Social Security numbers.

''The guy was in business to make money,'' said Davie police spokesman Bill Bamford. ``He was starting to create his own identity-theft ring.''

Nshaka, 36, was charged with one count of burglary and assault, police said. Police also charged him with several theft charges and a second burglary charge.

Detectives are still trying to figure out how much the suspect may have scammed.

Police got their lead two months ago when a Hollywood mother jotted down the tag number of Nshaka's white Ford Taurus. The Miami Herald is not identifying the woman because she feared the suspect might retaliate.

On April 20, Nshaka is alleged to have pushed the Hollywood mother to the ground just after she dropped off her 4-year-old son at a preschool at Calvary Chapel, 8530 Stirling Rd. She said he then smashed out the passenger-side window to her van and ran off with a seven-inch TV set and her purse.

Inside her purse: a three-diamond necklace, an Xavier watch that matches her husband's, four photos of an earlier husband who died of cancer, and credit cards.

MORE VICTIMS?

Some 35 minutes after the attack, the assailant bought $45 in gas from a Hollywood Texaco fuel station, the victim said.

Investigators are trying to find out if Nshaka had any accomplices, and who else he may possibly have scammed.

''We believe there are more victims out there,'' Bamford said.

There are 20 other pending burglary-related charges against Nshaka in the municipalities of Hollywood, Pembroke Pines, Cooper City, Weston and Davie, police said.

Several Broward women have had their purses snatched from their cars in recent months, including a Sunrise mother in March as she walked her child to a day-care center.

Police urge parents to lock their cars and take their purses with them when dropping off or picking up children from school.

In 2003, Nshaka, of 5900 Hayes St., was charged with but not convicted of grand theft, depositing a check with intent to defraud, and using an illegal check, records show.

PARENTS FEARFUL

Meanwhile, parents on Friday expressed concern over their own safety and the safety of their children when dropping off the toddlers at a Davie day care.

''I think it's pathetic for somebody to prey on a mother with her kids,'' said Shana Crisafulli, 28, a Pembroke Pines mother picking up her 3 ½-year-old from the Calvary Kids Preschool. ``I guess the guy was preying on an easy target.''