Using someone else’s identity to benefit yourself financially is charged as Identity Theft in Fort Collins and Larimer County. A woman is getting a lot of attention after her local sheriff’s office trolled her, posting a letter to Facebook outlining the allegations against her along with her pictures. The letter was written using slang and a personal tone – almost as if writing to a friend – as a way to attract more attention. The woman is seen on surveillance opening credit cards at Victoria’s Secret, Best Buy, Home Depot, and Ashley Furniture in someone else’s name. She was caught and arrested, only to somehow escape after claiming to need medical attention. To date the woman is still wanted for multiple Identity Theft charges.
Larimer County Identity Theft Lawyer: Definition of Identity Theft With Credit Cards in Boulder County
The Larimer and Boulder County, Colorado law definition of Identity Theft – C.R.S. 18-5-902 – is:
(a) Knowingly uses the personal identifying information, financial identifying information, or financial device of another without permission or lawful authority with the intent to obtain cash, credit, property, services, or any other thing of value or to make a financial payment;
(b) Knowingly possesses the personal identifying information, financial identifying information, or financial device of another without permission or lawful authority, with the intent to use or to aid or permit some other person to use such information or device to obtain cash, credit, property, services, or any other thing of value or to make a financial payment;
(c) With the intent to defraud, falsely makes, completes, alters, or utters a written instrument or financial device containing any personal identifying information or financial identifying information of another;
(d) Knowingly possesses the personal identifying information or financial identifying information of another without permission or lawful authority to use in applying for or completing an application for a financial device or other extension of credit;
(e) Knowingly uses or possesses the personal identifying information of another without permission or lawful authority with the intent to obtain a government-issued document.
The woman would likely be charged for using another person’s identifying information to obtain a credit card and purchase items. Identity Theft is a class 4 felony in Fort Collins, Loveland, and Estes Park.
If you or someone you love has been charged with Identity Theft, be smart, exercise your right to remain silent, and contact the best criminal defense attorneys from the O’Malley Law Office at 970-658-0007 to schedule your free consultation. Together, we can protect your future.
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