The guy used a false SSN. Yet the legislature, last session, refused to require the State and businesses to verify SSN's of those it employs for fear of losing some of the illegal immigrant workforce and being called racists by the illegal immigrant lobby.
I wonder how many other fugitives are out there living a happy life with someone else's SSN.
I'll post a couple more stories here with some other details in a moment.
Perhaps someday we'll all collectively go sane and start executing these people instead of warehousing them. But probably not.
(KUTV) SALT LAKE CITY - Utah authorities have arrested the self-proclaimed “King of Child Porn,” who was apparently tripped up by an identity theft scheme.
Police learned about Kirk Alan Swearingen, 45, after a Salt Lake City couple alerted them about a man wanting to rent a unit in their building – whose name and social security number seemed a little suspicious.
According to John and Betty Daley, who own an apartment building, Swearingen called them two weeks ago from San Francisco. He told them he was coming to Utah and was looking for a place to rent.
But Betty got suspicious when he gave out his social security number. She did some detective work and found that his name and social security number didn’t match.
The Daleys agreed to rent an apartment to Swearingen, and called the FBI. When the suspect showed up to claim his apartment, he was arrested for identity theft.
However, after further investigation authorities discovered that Swearingen has previously been arrested as an accused child sex predator. It turns out, he was wanted in a variety of states and had been on the run for 22 years.
“We could have been targets for this animal,” John Daley told 2News. “We are nice people. We would have let him into our lives. He could have abused our children too.”
The idea that Swearingen could have set up shop in Salt Lake City is painful for authorities to think about.
“He is one of the worst possible predators,” said Brett Tolman of the U.S Attorney’s office. “He’s very aware of what he’s doing. And he’s systematic.”
“We are concerned that he’s traveling throughout the country, either possibly molesting children… or being involved in production or distribution of child pornography,” Patrick Kiernan of the FBI told 2News.
“I got butterflies thinking about how close of a bullet we dodged,” John Daley added.
Investigators say they have found several CDs in Swearingen’s possession that contain child pornography. The suspect reportedly has used more than 30 aliases over the years, and officials say he was very good at deceiving people.
The FBI says at the current time, it is unclear exactly how many crimes Swearingen may have committed across the country – but he has previously been arrested in Colorado, South Dakota and New Mexico.
"Hmmm...Swengen no come back?"
And it is assured that the ACLU considers the Boy Scouts of America to be a "greater threat" to the American way of life than that scumbag.