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« Update: Education Chief McWalters to leave next year | Today | Expect vacation crowds at Green Airport this weekend » April 10, 20084 accused of stealing IDs as part of cell-phone fraudA former Rhode Island Hospital security guard and three former Radio Shack employees have been indicted by a federal grand jury on allegations they used hospital patients’ identity information to buy electronic equipment and cell phone accounts. Former guard Michael Bermudez is accused of using his security job to get the data of patients, employees and others at the hospital in Providence, including names, birth dates and Social Security numbers. Bermudez used the information to open credit card accounts and to activate cell phone accounts at a RadioShack store on Garfield Avenue in Cranston and at another on Atwells Avenue, Providence, U.S. Attorney Robert Clark Corrente's office said today. Prosecutors say Bermudez used the charge accounts to buy electronics and sold the phones that he got with the activated cell phone accounts. The grand jury indictment also accuses Roberto Valerio, Hector Alvarez and James Hernandez, who worked at the stores, of helping Bermudez open the fraudulent accounts. The four are charged with conspiracy to traffic in counterfeit access devices and trafficking in counterfeit access devices. Bermudez is also charged with aggravated identity theft, which is using identity theft to commit another crime. The indictment identifies nine victims by initials, all of whom are said to have been Rhode Island Hospital patients between April 2006 and February 2008, when Bermudez worked as a security guard contractor and was assigned to posts at the hospital, the news release says. Bermudez, Alvarez, and Valerio were named in a federal complaint last month, which is supplanted by the indictment. -- projo.com staff writer Michael P. McKinney Corrente and Thomas Powers, resident agent in charge of the U.S. Secret Service's Providence office, announced the indictment, filed yesterday in U.S. District Court, Providence. Bermudez, 26, of Regent Avenue, Providence, and Alvarez, 29, of Sisson Street, Providence, appeared on March 14 before U.S. Magistrate Judge Lincoln D. Almond. Valerio, 25, of Thackery Street, Providence, appeared before Almond on April 2. Hernandez, 22, of Parnell Street, Providence, was not named in last month's complaint. Posted by Mike McKinney CommentsMarilyn Campbell | April 10, 2008 5:00 PM link I wonder if this man has been stealing since oct 2007 because thier has been stealing in the emergency room and a man has been wrongly acussed RI hospital is not making the connection but RI hospital is known not to investigate things well heck how many times have they operated on the wrong side? about 4 of what the public knows a picture of this person would trigger alot of peoples memory. jlo | April 10, 2008 10:59 PM link Post a commentPlease be civil. Vicious comments, personal attacks and profanity won't be published. Name and email are required; email address will not publish. |
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