Hayward woman charged in mass thefts of IDs

[alp227]

Source: San Francisco Chronicle

(05-16) 14:58 PDT HAYWARD -- A Hayward woman has been charged with numerous felony counts for allegedly running an identity-theft operation that created fake Social Security and California identification cards, checks and credit cards.

Mishel Caviness, 40, was arrested Wednesday after an investigation by Oakland police and the U.S. Secret Service.

The probe began when Oakland city employee Leslie Nguyen Pham reported in January that someone was fraudulently cashing her checks, according to police Officer Ryan Goodfellow and court records. Pham works as an accountant in the budget office of the city administrator.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/05/16/BAPP1JGPTT.DTL

[iemitsu]

1. glad they caught her.

i have zero sympathy for anyone who commits this sort of crime.

[LiberalFighter]

2. Send her to some remote island.

Or some not so remote island like Japan

[Heywood J]

3. Why would you foist her on the Japanese? (NT)

[LiberalFighter]

4. In the evacuated zone.

I thought with the current news it might be understood.

[midnight]

5. This is small potatoes compared to the case that congress

put together against Goldmansachs, and hand delivered to the DOJ... Still no charges for these bankers..