Posted
9/08/2007 06:54:00 PM
by Douglas
So what constitutes an "identity theft" ring? Hopefully a little more than a whole bunch of crap in a big
house.Federal and local law enforcement authorities carrying out a search warrant at a home in League City uncovered what investigators believe to be a massive identity theft operation Friday evening.
Officials with the Federal Bureau of Investigation were assisting the League City Police Department with the execution of a state search warrant at the home about 4:30 p.m. Friday, said FBI Special Agent Patricia Villafranca.
"It's a large, luxury home and apparently there's a large amount of expensive items inside," said Villafranca, who didn't have the specific address late Friday. "At this point it's believed that many of them have been purchased by fraudulently obtaining credit cards."
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"Basically it's just because of the sheer volume of the items and the size of the case," she said.
News flash, League City Police, Galveston County Sheriff and the FBI, if having a lot of crap in a big house that appears to be beyond the means of the residents is a sign of an identity theft ring, then
every McMansion in every suburb in Houston is suspect.