Two men were charged with identity theft Oct. 9 after police say they found 122 SIM cards in the vehicle.
Georgetown police stopped the car for a traffic violation near County Seat Highway when they detected the odor of marijuana, said Detective Joey Melvin of the Georgetown Police Department.
During a search of the vehicle, Melvin said, police found a laptop computer and 122 SIM cards. Melvin said the men had cataloged personal information of numerous victims on the laptop with intent on using the information to activate the SIM cards on cell phones. Officers also identified several addresses locally where cell phones had been shipped that the men were planning to retrieve, he said. After retrieving the cell phones and activating the SIM cards with stolen personal information, Melvin said, the cell phones would be sold on the internet.
Police charged Allan Castillo, 28, and Andrea Villar-Martinez, 31, both of the Dominican Republic, with 16 counts of felony identity theft, 16 counts of second-degree conspiracy and possession of marijuana.
Castillo and Villar-Martinez were both arraigned and committed to Sussex Correctional Institution in default of $64,500 cash bail.
The investigation is ongoing and Georgetown police are working in conjunction with Homeland Security Investigations Delaware.
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11 comments:
"Georgetown police stopped the car for a traffic violation near County Seat Highway when they detected the odor of marijuana..."
They stopped the car for a traffic violation when they detected the odor of marijuana? How is that possible?
Let me guess, they stole the identities of Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull.
Must have had smoke billowing out of those windows.
6:14 you are purposely taking the message out of context you area nit picking A hole.
Read it again..
Even this old mind read this as "they were stopped for a TRAFFIC VIOLATION", 5hen smelled odor of marijuana. Read it again.
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Ebven this feeble mind understood what it said. They were stopped for a TRAFFIC violation, then smelled odor of marijuana. Read it again.
Their attorneys will ask the same question. A stupidly written report can cost law enforcement the case.
Anyone besides me notice that most of the criminal activities reflected in the news, are committed by some minority. I’m guessing about 85%. Imagine how much we could save in reduction of courts, police, and corrections facilities if we could somehow isolate certain demographics.
I guess this is how they make themselves a better life?
They must have forgotten the, in America illegally charge.
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