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Man Gets Arrested for Crime Someone Else Committed, Using His Name
There are several ways to find out whether you’ve been the victim of identity theft — careful monitoring of credit reports, review of all printed mail sent to your house, and in some unfortunate cases, hearing about it from creditors. We got word today on an entirely new — and highly unpleasant — way to find out: getting arrested for a crime your ID thief committed. Sadly that’s what happened to Ricky Smith of Petersberg, Virginia, who was arrested for failure to appear in court after someone using his identity was arrested on drug charges. Not only was Smith arrested at his workplace, but the charges weren’t actually dropped for almost two months.
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