Wednesday, May 1, 2013
The following information was supplied by the Milton police department. Where arrests or charges are mentioned, it does not indicate a conviction.
A Deerfield Parkway resident's mother was the first person to let her know someone had stolen her identity by opening up two payday loans. Her mother got called when the loans fell past due, the victim told Milton police on April 24. Her mother had been called by Plain Green Loan asking about payment for an $800 loan made in January 2012 that was past due. The loan company representative said the victim's name, Social Security number and employer information were used to apply for the loan. It wasn't her checking account or email address that were used, however. Once a police report was received, the loan company promised to mark the loan as fraudulent and closed. The victim spotted a $1,300 Cash Call Loan on her credit report that was not…
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
The following information was supplied by the Milton police department. Where arrests or charges are mentioned, it does not indicate a conviction.
A Cogburn Road resident had more than $3,400 in fraudulent transactions charged to her Discover card before the company's fraud department alerted her to the charges. She cancelled her card and placed a flag on the account. The woman said a $490 hair extension that was part of the fraudulent activity was shipped to her home, and was taken into evidence. It appears someone paid for a trip with her card number as another $490 was spent through Expedia. The third fraudulent charge was $1,858 to Walmart.com. The victim was advised by Milton police to alert the three credit bureaus. Identity Thief Uses Old Address for Victim A Bethany Creek Drive resident discovered his identity had been stolen by someone who used a Florida address where he …
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
The following information was supplied by the Milton police department. Where arrests or charges are mentioned, it does not indicate a conviction.
Warrants have been taken out for an Alpharetta man who rented a truck on Jan. 31, but did not return it as required on Feb. 7. The suspect rented the Penske truck at Home Depot. A Penske Truck representative told Milton police the Huntington Place resident signed a rental agreement setting the return date and location as Feb. 7 at the Home Depot. When the truck still had not been returned, a certified letter was sent to the man. As of April 1, a check of Penske's national database showed the truck still hadn't been returned. Milton police went to the apartment the suspect used in the rental agreement on April 2, but it appeared to be vacant and no arrest was made. Rental Car Stolen from Apartment Parking Lot A Milton woman rented a black …
Monday, April 8, 2013
Robert A. Hill, now of Swainsboro, ran an eBay store out of Roswell to sell more than $9 million in stolen goods across state lines.
A Georgia man was sentenced to serve more than seven years in federal prison for selling more than $9 million in stolen property from his eBay store that he operated out of Roswell for 10 years. Robert A. Hill, 51, shipped the goods across state lines to his customers from a warehouse in Alpharetta. Hill had an eBay store called atlantis_discount_ warehouse_llc, where he sold the merchandise online to buyers from across the United States, according to a release from U.S. Attorney Sally Quillian Yates. To get merchandise, he worked with a group of identity thieves who used fraudulent credit cards opened in the names of numerous identity theft victims to buy expensive items, such as iPads, iPods, iPhones, computers, Wii game systems, cameras…
Friday, April 5, 2013
Alpharetta residents can bring their confidential documents to the document shredding event on April 20.
Every day we hear stories about identity theft and credit card fraud. Many of those stories appear here on Alpharetta-Milton Patch. So shredding your personal documents makes a lot of sense, and may save you a lot of dollars. And on Saturday, April 20, Alpharetta residents can take advantage of a free document shedding event. Reasons to shred: Bring your bank statements, medical history papers and other documents containing confidential information on April 20 from 10 a.m.-noon–or until the truck is full – to in the Alpharetta Department of Public Safety parking lot. There is a five-box per resident limit for this event. This event is being held in conjunction with a community electronics recycling event at the same location: Alpharetta …
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Thursday, April 4, 2013
The following information was supplied by the Milton police department. Where arrests or charges are mentioned, it does not indicate a conviction.
A Milton man went online to pay his credit card bill only to discover his card number had been used fraudulently multiple times over a three-day period at the end of February. The victim saw $750 in charges made in Acworth to buy fuel, according to the March 29 Milton police incident report. The investigating officer advised the man to contact credit bureaus to report the fraud. Creditor's Attempt to Collect Past Due Bill Reveals Identity Fraud Another Milton man only learned that somone used his Social Security number to open an AT&T account when a creditor called him about a past due account. The identity fraud victim told Milton police on March 29 that the creditor asked him to pay a $200.67 past due bill. He learned that the phone had …
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
The following arrest information was supplied by the Alpharetta Department of Public Safety. It does not indicate a conviction.
A Stone Mountain woman was arrested March 27 in connection with the forgery three weeks earlier of a Savannah couple's check at a Wells Fargo bank. A woman entered the bank on Old Milton Parkway and attempted to cash a check for $4,500 on the Savannah couple's bank account. The teller asked for identification, and according to the incident report the suspect showed on out-of-state ID with her own name on it. The transaction threw up red flags for the teller because of the ID, the check belonged to a customer from Savannah and the suspect was attempting to cash it in Alpharetta rather than Savannah or even nearby South Carolina. A check with the bank's fraud department revealed that the phone number for the account had been changed that day…
The following information was supplied by the Milton police department. Where arrests or charges are mentioned, it does not indicate a conviction.
Someone who apparently had a key to Firehouse Subs in Milton – and both the alarm key code and safe combination – robbed the store of the $1,407 that was left in the safe overnight on March 24. The store owner called Milton police the morning of March 25 to report the theft. A review of the security footage showed a person dressed all in black, with white gloves and holding a black umbrella over his or her head. The suspect unlocked the front door, disarmed the alarm and opened the safe to take out the cash. After locking the front door, the suspect left by the back door of the restaurant. The store owner said a limited number of people have keys, the alarm code and safe combination. Milton Woman Learns California Bank Account Opened with …
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
The following arrest information was supplied by the Alpharetta Department of Public Safety. It does not indicate a conviction.
An Alpharetta man didn't help his theft case much by making a Facebook post with a photo showing him displaying money and saying "I love my job." Alpharetta police were called to the Walmart Neighborhood Market on Haynes Bridge Road by a loss prevention officer. The officer said the store had overwhelming evidence that the suspect had taken $3,180 over a 5-day period from a cash register in the store. An audit of a register showed it kept coming up short large amounts of money starting March 10. Several cashiers use a single till during the day and each are logged as using it. But only two names came up as using the register on all of the days during which money was missing on March 10, 12, 13, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 20. Amounts taken each …
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
The following arrest information was supplied by the Milton police department. It does not indicate a conviction.
A Doraville woman was arrested after Milton police were called to the Walmart on Windward Parkway about a possible credit card fraud attempt on March 8 at 3:34 p.m. The loss prevention officer at the store said a cashier alerted him about a customer who might have used a fraudulent creidt card. The customer used the prepaid credit card to purchase two prepaid Mastercard credit cardsd and two children's toys. But when the cashier completed the transaction, he noticed the numbers on the card didn't match the last four numbers of the credit card that were shown on the receipt. The woman told a Milton police officer that a friend named Kiki gave her the card, and said they could keep the card and merchandise if they let her leave. Instead, the…
Tommy Rich
8:48 am on Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Here's what's ridiculous: well-meaning officials and activists trying to understand payday loans with a credit-card mentality. These are short term loans, they're not paid off over a year, or with monthly payments like a credit card is, anyone who takes out these loans understands this. People use these loans specifically because they don't have the luxury of a credit card with a nice, … more ›