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Is your cash and credit at risk? Identity theft ranks as one of the biggest crimes in West Richland with police working dozens of cases at a time.

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Gabriel Jang, 37, of Newcastle, was sentenced Friday, Feb. 5 in U.S. District Court in Seattle to eight and half years in prison, five years of supervised release and hundreds of thousands of dollars in restitution for Conspiracy to Commit Bank and Wire Fraud, Access Device Fraud, Structuring Currency Transactions and Aggravated Identity Theft.

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Why target holiday gifts when stealing your identity is so much easier? That’s the reality for more thieves in Yakima these days. And as Action News discovered, the number of victims here is exploding.

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A Kamuela man is in police custody on theft and identity theft charges. On September 7, a 23-year-old Kamuela woman reported losing her wallet. After the wallet was lost, an unknown person began using her bank card to remove cash from her account.
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Kamuela man in custody for identity theft charges. (KPUA AM 670 Hilo)

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A woman awaiting sentencing in a Washington, D.C.-area identity theft case whose victims included Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s wife also faces charges in Denver.

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TEMPE, Ariz.—-Service excellence is at the core of the culture for Gables Residential, a developer and manager of multifamily communities across the nation. In alignment with its culture, Gables has joined forces with LifeLock, Inc. to develop a special offer for residents and employees on LifeLock® service, the industry leader in proactive identity theft protection.
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    Onslow County deputies arrested a woman there on charges of stealing her neighbor’s identity.
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MIAMI, Aug. 28 — A computer hacker accused of masterminding one of the largest cases of identity theft in U.S. history agreed Friday to plead guilty and serve up to 25 years in federal prison.

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WASHINGTON — As Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke struggled to hold the economy together last August, he was distracted by a more personal financial problem: He and his wife were victims of identity theft.

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Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke fell victim to a nationwide identity theft ring after his wife’s purse was snatched from the back of her chair while she sat in a D.C. Starbucks, court documents show.

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