April 9, 2007

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  NEWS: Clerk Helps Nab ID Thief

  A Nevada grocery store sales clerk with excellent observational skills helped police nab an identity thief at his game red-handed. The crook is now looking at multiple charges after being found by authorities with veritable piles of blank driver's licenses bearing state seals from three states including Maine and blank credit cards – all the tools needed to manufacture an identity, or several.
  
  Justin Todd Moss of Las Vegas, age 34, was apprehended and booked to the Henderson city jail on multiple charges that included identity theft, forgery and possession of stolen property. Moss was nabbed at a Whole Foods Market last Saturday, said Henderson police. Moss is being held in lieu of $391,000 bail.
  
  Moss was nabbed after a sharp-eyed employee of the Henderson store spotted him using pilfered credit cards and fraudulent identification at the store over a period of several weeks, according to authorities. Moss was identified as wearing the same shirt in store surveillance video footage as he was when apprehended. Officers interrogated Moss and found several driver's licenses, as well as a slew of fake plastic both on his person and bundled with rubber bands in a paper bag in his car. That discovery led police to Moss's room at a weekly rental efficiency motel, where a further stash was found. Police seized $40,000 in cash, $25,000 in miscellaneous gift cards from multiple stores, 160 blank credit cards from six different banks, blank driver's licenses with magnetic strips, and laminate seals from California, Maine and Connecticut.
  
  
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