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Woodstock Man Indicted for ID Theft and Fraud

CTV STAFF
Friday, October 03, 2008

Woodstock resident Joseph Dewitt Crocker was indicted this week by a federal grand jury in Alabama for two counts of access device fraud and two counts of aggravated identity theft, U.S. Attorney Alice H. Martin and other officials announced.

According to a prepared statement issued by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Alabama, the indictment charges Crocker, 54, with making fraudulent purchases with stolen credit cards on August 25 and August 26 in a suburb of Birmingham.

A fifth count in the indictment seeks to forfeit all properties Crocker allegedly obtained as a result of criminal activity, according to the September 30 statement.

According to the statement, the maximum penalty for access device fraud is 10 years imprisonment and a fine of up to $250,000, or both, and aggrevated identity theft carries a mandatory 2-year prison sentence consecutive to any other imposed sentence.