Thread: Strange - police and secret service and identity theft

News conference scheduled for identity theft case
by The Times-Picayune
Wednesday May 14, 2008, 9:59 AM
Slidell police and the Secret Service will hold a joint news conference this morning to announce the arrest of a suspect in an identity theft case, the police department announced.



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Link decided not to work now....

I wonder why the Secret Service is involved in a case of identity theft?

Maybe some poor illegal worker made up a social security number that really belongs to someone important?
Wonder what McCains social security number is........

New Orleans man arrested in identity theft scam
Posted by Jeff Adelson, The Times-Picayune May 14, 2008 12:18PM

The U.S. Secret Service has joined the investigation of a New Orleans man who allegedly used dozens of fabricated credit cards containing information on consumers from several states to buy thousands of dollars in electronics and gift cards before being busted by Slidell Police earlier this month.
Quentin T. Hall

Quentin T. Hall, 22. 7515 Lacombe St., New Orleans, was booked into St. Tammany Parish Jail in Covington on May 2 after one of several credit cards he used to buy gift cards at the Wal-Mart on Natchez Drive in Slidell showed up as "compromised," Slidell Police Chief Freddy Drennan said Wednesday.

The Secret Service, which investigates credit card fraud cases, has considered Hall a "person of interest," said Darin Lake, assistant to the special agent in charge of the Secret Service's New Orleans field office.

Hall allegedly used credit cards with his name on the front but containing information from other people's accounts in their magnetic strip. It is unclear whether he made the cards himself or worked with others to gather information and manufacture the cards, Lake said.

After Wal-Mart officials were notified about the card by an unidentified identity theft protection company, they discovered the card had been used to purchase seven $200 gift cards, Drennan said.

Hall returned to the store later in the day and purchased a laptop computer using a combination of credit cards, before being met at his vehicle by patrol officers, Drennan said. Officers found more than 30 more credit cards in the vehicle in addition to about $10,000 worth of electronic equipment, including flat screen TVs and computers, in Hall's car, Drennan said.

Hall was released on a $10,000 bond on May 7.

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Hall was released on a $10,000 bond on May 7.

Did he use a credit card to bond out?