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Originally Posted by J. Falcon
(Post 19765564)
Please tell me he got arrested.
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Once I was able to ID him for the police we find out that he already has a warrant out for his arrest because he beat up his girlfriend.
The police had me put credit guard on my account with the different credit agencies. This is when you give them a phone number and they report back to anyone who is doing a credit check that they must contact that number to verify the identity of anyone apply for credit with this name/account.
About a week after putting the credit guard on I get a call from a jewelry store in a mall about 30 minutes from my house. They are checking to make sure it is actually me who is there applying for credit. I tell them it is not, quickly explain what is happening and tell them to keep the guy there if possible, I'm calling the police. They tell the guy that their system is a little slow and it will take a few minutes to process everything. The police showed up and arrested him.
Eventually they cut a deal with him where he pleaded guilty to the domestic violence charge and some of the ID theft charges and was sentenced to some jail time.The reason they went that route was because this would be his second conviction for a violent crime. If he was convicted again of a violent crime it would be his third strike and he would get a minimum of 25 years.
So the good news was he was in jail. The bad news was that since he didn't plead guilty to all the charges there were some accounts that he opened that continued to try to collect money from me and were a bit of a pain in the ass to deal with. Eventually, with the help of a lawyer, I was able to get it all fixed, but it was still a big mess and cost me some money.
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