Police offer advice for avoiding identity theft
Clark Kent was Superman. Samuel Clemens was Mark Twain. Increasingly, however, Rogers police are finding people — comic book heroes and literary legends aside — who have multiple identities complete with stolen documentation for use in capturing ill-gotten gains.
Cpl. Kelley Cradduck of the Rogers Police Department talked about identity theft with the Friends of the Library group on Tuesday. “This is a huge, huge problem,” Cradduck said.
Last year, Rogers investigated 30 cases of identity theft, which ranked the municipality fourth statewide along with Fort Smith and Jonesboro. Little Rock, which was No. 1 on the list, dealt with 214 cases.
While Rogers’ number may seem relatively small, Cradduck said identity-theft investigations are tricky. “Logistically, it’s a nightmare to deal with a victim in another state or (a perpetrator),” Cradduck said.
In fact, city police have had to look outside the United States to investigate identity-theft cases.
And while the breadth of the problem has grown, so has its depth.
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