Identity Theft

After Nine Months in Jail for Working Without Papers, Luz Ruiz Rascon Finally Will Go Free

Bill Montgomery Blasted By Hispanic Bar Association over Apartheid Policies

The pressure is building on Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery to end his apartheid policies when it comes to the over-charging of undocumented workers, resulting in moms and dads being held nonbondable under Prop 100 and ultimately deported. See also: -Bill Montgomery and ICE, Partners in C ... More >>

Bill Montgomery Is No Immigration Moderate

Identity Thief's Creators Fear What Audiences Love About Melissa McCarthy

LifeLock Goes Public, Sees Stock Price Fall; Tempe Company has Sketchy History

LifeLock launched its new persona as a publicly traded company on Wednesday -- then watched as its initial stock price fell by several percent. LifeLock, the Tempe-based anti-identity-theft company founded in 2005 by Robert Maynard Jr. and Todd Davis, had expected to sell shares at $9 apiece, but t ... More >>

Joe Arpaio's Latest Justification for Immigrant Roundups -- Voter Fraud

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has a new excuse for his "employer sanctions operations," after the boys in beige ran the 59th immigrant roundup this morning, and we'll give you a hint -- it still has little or nothing to do with sanctioning employers.Arpaio says deputies raided Circle B Grading ... More >>

Joe Arpaio Went Immigrant Hunting This Morning -- Bags Two Brown Folks

​Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio went hunting for illegals again this morning, this time at a Phoenix maid service business, where his deputies arrested a grand total of two suspected illegal immigrants, neither of whom are drug-dealing gang-bangers -- they're maids.Per usual, the sheriff condu ... More >>

Bryan Stewart, a.k.a. Rick Valentini, Convicted of Multiple Counts of Identity Theft -- Now for the Murder Trial

Bryan Stewart a.k.a. Rick Valentini​Rick Valentini -- a.k.a. Bryan Stewart was in a Maricopa County Superior Court this afternoon, where he was found guilty of 29 counts of forgery, four counts of identity theft, four counts of misconduct involving a weapon, two counts of money laundering, and one ... More >>

Stolen Ashes of Tempe Woman's Dead Husband Found and Returned, Tucson Man Arrested

mcso.orgAnthony Jessup Sr.​The ashes of Karen Dory's husband were found Saturday after a two-month search by Tempe police. During a plea for the public's help Thursday, 76-year-old Dory remained confident in her hopes that the ashes of her husband, Grant Dory, would be returned. The next day, the ... More >>

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, May 27, 2010

LifeLock Worries About Employee's Personal Data, Asks New Times to Alter Published Police Report

Lame! LifeLock, the so-called identity-theft "protection" company based in Tempe we wrote about last week, called us in a tizzy yesterday -- worried about the accidental publication of one its employees' personal data. This is the type of situation LifeLock would never put in a press release, b ... More >>

Fraud Alerts Don't Hurt Credit Score, NY Times Reports; LifeLock's Critics Made Claim in Lawsuit

Does setting a fraud alert on your credit file every three months hurt your credit score? Critics of a Tempe-based identity-theft "protection" company, LifeLock, claimed in lawsuits that it does -- a fact that we noted in this month's feature story about the truth-challenged firm. But a blog po ... More >>

LifeLock CEO Todd Davis Tries to Spin Story on Frequent Identity Thefts; No Explanation for Why Davis Hid Thefts From Customers

LifeLock has finally responded to our feature article this week about the Tempe-based company, and the revelation that its CEO, Todd Davis, has had his identity stolen at least 13 times. We offered Davis and LifeLock the chance to come clean about Davis' problems with identity theft before we publi ... More >>

Cracking LifeLock: Even After a $12 Million Penalty for Deceptive Advertising, the Tempe Company Can't Be Honest About Its Identity-Theft-Protection Service

LifeLock Adds Tom Ridge, Former Homeland Security Boss, to Board of Directors

Image: www.harvard.eduTom Ridge, former Homeland Security chief, joins LifeLock's board of directors.​Tempe-based LifeLock, Inc. has put former U.S. Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge on its board of directors as it tries to recover from a $12 million punishment from the Federal Trade Commission.R ... More >>

Yavapai County Woman Uses Stolen Credit Card to Pay Court Fines; Needless to Say, She Got Busted

www.staticmedia.com​A Yavapai County woman was arrested Monday after police say she used a stolen credit card to pay -- among other things -- two court fines.On Sunday, the Yavapai County Sheriff's Office got a call from a woman who said she'd had her purse stolen from her unlocked car the d ... More >>

Andrew Thomas Forgot to Mention One Thing in His Waterworld Press Release: He Dismissed Criminal Charges Against the Alleged Bad Gal

We wrote earlier this year about the media-friendly bust by the Arpaio/Thomas duet of Waterworld Safari, the venerable theme park out in Glendale that is now called (under new ownership) Wet `n' Wild. ​County Attorney Thomas told the press after the 2008 bust that "a new chapter in ... More >>

LifeLock's Fraud-Alert Service Banned Forever in Settlement With Experian

Image: Martha Strachan​LifeLock, the ethics-bending, Tempe-based firm covered in two 2007 New Times feature articles, has been permanently banned from performing what used to be its most basic service.Under a lawsuit settlement with Experian, a major credit bureau, LifeLock can no longer place a ... More >>

Telemarketing Scam Alleged; Mesa Firm Fleeces the Elderly With Bogus ID Theft Protection, AG Says

​ A Mesa phone soliciting firm has fleeced untold numbers of elderly victims since 2000 by promising identity theft protection, says the state Attorney General's office. A lawsuit filed June 30 says that reps from the Consumer Benefits Group, which lists an address of 12 West Main S ... More >>

Hot Links: ID Theft, Hoover Dam, and Black Bears

The Arizona Department of Economic Security is warning clients in DES' Early Intervention Program of possible identity theft. After two backup hard drives were stolen from a Phoenix storage facility last October, the department sent out 65,000 letters to warn people of identity theft. Ten thousand o ... More >>

Arpaio’s Busts of Illegals at Popular Valley Water Parks Are All Wet

Identity Theft Hell Strikes Iraq Serviceman; Cops Bust the Suspected Culprit in Phoenix

Though most identity theft victims don't have it too hard, others get put through the wringer. Witness the case of Marc and Rachel Griffith, a Washington couple dealing with the electronic mess made by a suspect who was arrested today by Phoenix police. MCSO mug shot Travelle BradfordMarc G ... More >>

Hot Links: Party Crews, Identity Thieves, and Official Flatulence

Here's some news: teenagers party. But Phoenix police say the parties are getting out of hand, with partygoers forming "crews" and taking over abandoned buildings or setting up in the desert. Police say such bashes can lead to vandalism, assaults, and (surprise!) underage drinking...A thoroughbred h ... More >>

Mesa Officials Knew of Possible Fraud Two Years Before Sheriff's Raid, Tipster Says in Affidavit

Consumer Alert from reporter Ray Stern: LifeLock being sued by credit agency Experian (w/UPDATE).

Letters From the Issue of Thursday, August 2, 2007

Money for Nothing

Don't fall victim to the identity-theft protection scam

Letters From the Issue of Thursday, June 14, 2007

Presidential candidate Fred Thompson shills for scummy LifeLock exec.

What Happened in Vegas...

Clients nationwide are entrusting private financial information to a Tempe anti-identity-theft firm that’s based on a bluff

Letters From the Issue of Thursday, December 15, 2005

Gomer, You're Fired!

Our feathered fiend bombs Trump-haters, racist soccer moms, Uncle Joe and the ACLU. Who's gonna be next?

The New Boss

Police have shut down most of the meth labs in Phoenix, but now the drug is a big import from Mexico -- cheap, pure and more plentiful than ever

An ID Ahead of Its Time

Bob Hartle toiled to get state and federal identity-theft laws passed; now he's fighting to get them enforced