Lance Ealy, an Ohio man who fled home confinement last year just prior to his conviction on charges of filing phony tax refund requests on more than 150 Americans, was apprehended in a pre-dawn raid by federal marshals in Atlanta on Wednesday. Lance Ealy, in self-portrait he uploaded to twitter before absconding. Ealy, 28, of Dayton, Ohio, was the subject of no fewer than three previous posts on this blog .
Convicted ID Thief, Tax Fraudster Now Fugitive
In April 2014, this blog featured a story about Lance Ealy , an Ohio man arrested last year for buying Social Security numbers and banking information from an underground identity theft service that relied in part on data obtained through a company owned by big-three credit bureau Experian . Earlier this week, Ealy was convicted of using the data to fraudulently claim tax refunds with the IRS in the names of more than 175 U.S
ID Theft Service Customer Gets 27 Months
A Florida man was sentenced today to 27 months in prison for trying to purchase Social Security numbers and other data from an identity theft service that pulled consumer records from a subsidiary of credit bureau Experian . Ngo’s ID theft service superget.info Derric Theoc , 36, pleaded guilty to attempting to purchase Social Security and bank account records on more than 100 Americans with the intent to open credit card accounts and file fraudulent tax returns in the victims’ names.