| Ex-con:ID theft can be prevented
Sparks resident Angela Cady knows firsthand the harm identity theft causes. "Identity theft is like murder. You're murdering that person's identity -- everything that they are on paper," she said. "It's really sad what it can do to people, how long it takes them to get their life straight again." More than 11.8 million Americans have been affected by identity theft since April 2004, according to the Sparks Police Department, which is holding a free identity theft prevention course Wednesday night. Information also will be provided on the appropriate steps for victims of ID theft to take. Cady isn't a victim. She spent six years in prison for stealing someone's identity and, having learned from her experience, shared her story to help others protect themselves.
Safe Communities by Design conference Nov. 28-30
After watching his best friend bleed to death in his arms, former California gang member Jeremy Estrada turned his life around. Now, in his third-year in medical school at Georgetown University, Estrada will share his compelling story during the Safe Communities by Design conference, sponsored by the N.C. Governor�s Crime Commission, Nov.28-30 at the Sea Trail Conference Center, Sunset Beach. Nearly 450 professionals and officials from the criminal justice community, juvenile and victims� services, the private sector, and federal, state and local agencies will attend the conference. Other speakers include first lady Mary Easley, Director Domingo Herriaz of the U.S. Bureau of Justice Assistance and Texas Rep. Ted Poe, head of the Congressional Victim�s Caucus. The Governor�s Crime Commission�s three-day conference will host workshops on current trends, strategies, and effective practices concerning topics such as gangs, drugs, identity theft, elder crime, and campus and community security.
Man given 2 years for identity theft
Maderan Edward Jason Ram, 31, was sentenced Friday to two years in state prison for identity theft.
Ram was convicted on two counts of possession of personal identification of 10 or more persons with intent to defraud.
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Escaped convict found in Oregon after 12 years
SALEM, Ore. -- For more than a decade, Lyndal Dale Ritterbush led a comfortable life in Salem as a rental property manager. He'd done so, in part, by stealing the identity of his brother-in-law, police said. But that theft eventually caused his story to unravel. Now, he's due to be returned to Utah, where he escaped from prison in 1985 after his second sentence for sexually abusing children. Ritterbush was known in Salem as Robert "Bob" Collins Rhoden, according to a story published in the Salem Statesman Journal. The paper said it and the Salt Lake Tribune had shared information about Ritterbush's time in Oregon and his capture. The real Robert Rhoden and his wife live in Nebraska, said Sheriff Jeff Franklin of rural Clay County.
Securing the Laptop: Mission Impossible?
Nearly every week, the report of a stolen laptop hits the news and, with it, a horror story of data loss, identity theft and corporate liability. With a downside that steep, it's no wonder that the laptop is the target of corporate IT security campaigns nationwide. Few corporate executives will sleep soundly until their IT managers have done all they can to lock down laptops and limit the sensitive data on them. .
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