Thread: Pakistani Man Charged With Using Fake ID, Credit Cards

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Pakistani Man Charged With Using Fake ID, Credit Cards
February 9, 2007

CONCORD, N.H. --A Pakistani man was arrested this week and charged with trying to use fake credit cards to buy thousands of dollars worth of computer equipment.

Muhammad Akram, 33, is facing felony charges of theft by deception and resisting arrest. His bail was set at $300,000.

Police said Akram had a "cheat sheet" to keep his aliases straight.

Police said that he tried to use a false credit card and identification to buy computers at a Circuit City. When he was rejected, he tried the same thing at a Best Buy across the street, police said, but Circuit City employees had already called police.

"When he was questioned, he produced a license from Virginia, identification, credit cards," Lt. Walter Carroll said.

But police said that the identification had a different name and a birth date of 1960, 13 years before Akram was born. When officers questioned him about information on the identification, he couldn't remember the details, police said.

At Akram's arraignment in Concord District Court, prosecutors called Akram a Pakistani national posing as an Indian national. Immigration and Naturalization Service officials said they would want to take custody of him if he makes bail. They would not say whether he was in the country legally. Akram's current address is in Queens, N.Y.

Concord city prosecutor Tracy Connelly said Akram has previous forgery and larceny convictions in New Jersey and New York and is in the United States illegally.

Paula Grenier, spokeswoman for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Boston, said once Akram is released on bail or resolves his Concord cases, he will be transferred to the custody of immigration officials.

It appears Akram he's been in the United States since at least 1999 because he was convicted in New York and New Jersey that year. He also was convicted in New York in 2001 on charges of larceny and aggravated unlicensed operation. Connelly said he was on the run on that last set of charges.

Akram is due back in court on Feb. 19 for a probable cause hearing

do not stop but send this man to jail and ensure that the prision is the worst in the country. No more nice jails for illegals, put them in the same jails they would be in their countries. Ameicans are not treated nicely if we commit crimes in their countries we go to their jails and suffer. time for illegals to learn that America is serious about illegals breaking our laws.