Two Brooklyn Residents Under Arrest For ID Theft
By Michelle Charlesworth
(Yaphank-WABC, June 2, 2004) — Two Brooklyn residents are under arrest for identity theft. Police say they were stealing social security and credit card numbers. But there is much more to this story.
Investigators believe the suspects were stealing untold amounts of money using stolen ID's and then funneling the money to terrorist organizations here and abroad. Although they would not elaborate on that.
The investigation started when a Farmingdale man called police and said that $7,000 dollars had come out of one of his credit card accounts. Police followed the trail, which led them to those two suspects in Brooklyn and an apartment full of other people's money, social security cards and credit cards.
With three or four key pieces of information per victim, the two people were emptying the bank accounts and ruining the credit of hard-working people and getting away with it according to investigators until now.
Tom Spota, Suffolk County: "We are also investigating a very strong possibility that the money's that were derived from identity thefts were possibly supporting terrorist activities. It certainly does appear that there is some link here."
The two suspects are being held without bail because of the possible connection to unnamed terrorists group. One suspect is a man named Yunus Unlu from Turkey and the woman is named Sai Jang. They are both about 30-years-old.
When asked if they were connected to Al-Qaeda, the answer was that they would not comment on that at this time. However, the victim in this crime got all of his money back.
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