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Identity Theft Ring Hits Suwanee

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Jon Lewis
@ December 9, 2008 7:29 AM
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(WSB Radio)  Suwanee police are tallying the losses in a huge identity theft case that involved as many as 700 victims.

"With as many victims as we had here, it could easily reach into the millions of dollars," says Suwanee Police Sergeant Shane Edmisten. 

He says the thieves were as indiscriminate as they were brazen. 

"I was supposed to be enjoying having a baby and relishing all that, and that was all taken from me," says one woman who had her wallet, and her identity, stolen while delivering a child at Northside Hospital last year.

Police cracked the ring at a storage unit auction. When they opened up the boxes being sold off they found fake and stolen ID's, credit cards, checkbooks, passports, and more. The identity thieves apparently came from California.

"In fact, three of the people photographed on the identification cards in California are either under indictment or have been sentenced for the identity fraud case that stemmed from California," says Edmisten, who says they're looking for other suspects. 

"It's a great possibility that these three people who are in federal custody had others working with them."

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