STAFFORD, Va.—Thanks to a credit union employee, a man suspected of stealing from people from Florida to Virginia was apprehended last week while trying to pull off a scam in Stafford County, the Fredericksburg Free Lance Star reported.
A local Sheriff’s Department deputy went to a Navy Federal Credit Union office at 308 Worth Ave. in response to a suspected fraud in progress, Sheriff’s spokesman Ryan Wilbur said. A man entered the business and tried to open an account, but a staff member recognized him from flyers put out by the credit union’s fraud team, the news outlet reported.
The suspect used a fake identification and fake social security card while trying to set up the account, and he also provided phony information when confronted by deputies. Wilbur said the investigation revealed that the man was involved in multiple fraud cases along the East Coast and used a different name in each alleged offense, the Free Lance Star said.
Police identified the man as 63-year-old Kiah Bernard Davis of Chesapeake. He was charged in Stafford with identity theft, providing false identification to law enforcement and two counts of passing a forged document. He was placed in the Rappahannock Regional Jail.