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Police are investigating a pattern of mail theft and check fraud in north suburban Lincolnwood. There are more than a dozen cases of people who say a fraudster tampered with their checks after they mailed them. CBS 2’s Tim McNicholas has learned it has also caught the attention of federal investigators. Jeff Zimmerman doesn’t know a Natalie Martinez. So imagine his surprise when he learned a check written out to her drained $4,000 from his bank account. “I decided to go downstairs, talk to my wife, and tell her we’ve got a problem,” Zimmerman said. Zimmerman soon realized that was...

Birmingham, ALABAMA — Court documents related to Tina Johnson, an Alabama woman who claims that Republican senatorial candidate Roy Moore groped her in his office decades ago, may raise questions about Johnson’s motives in making the accusation. The documents, reviewed by Breitbart News, show that Moore represented Johnson’s mother in a nasty custody case for Johnson’s then 12-year-old son, Daniel Sitz. In the case, Johnson was repeatedly painted by Moore’s client as an unfit, absent, and unstable mother and was accused of taking her son from his elementary school against his will. Johnson’s mother was ultimately awarded custody in the...

An illegal alien has been sentenced to life in prison for breaking into an 83-year-old woman's home, grabbing her by the throat, smashing her head into furniture, saturating her with gasoline and setting her body on fire while she was still alive – all to cover up his check fraud scam after she hired him to cut her lawn.

SNIPPET: "For all his public activity, Bray has rarely, if ever, discussed his life story in detail. His own MAS biography offers vague descriptions of his work as "a long time civil and human rights advocate." A charismatic African-American convert to Islam, Bray spent this entire decade working for Islamist organizations. Prior to joining MAS, Bray was political director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC). Those jobs have helped him build a growing public profile and given him access to politicians and policy makers. And that may explain his reluctance to discuss his life before political activism. The Investigative...

A married couple had the horror of finding out someone had gotten hold of their checking account information -- routing code and account number. The fraud was based on cashing checks using the stolen routing/account information at Wal-Mart. Another name was used on the fraudulent checks... Apparently, to expedite customer sales, there is limited validation on check purposes [since Wal-Mart is the low price leader, it cannot afford to spend much labor to protect customers...] Almost all of the $2000 that was de-frauded from the account was spent at Wal-Mart, the Wal-Mart gas stations and at Sam's. Though the couple...

GREENSBORO -- As executor of his parents' estate, former Greensboro resident Steve Israel had the only checkbook to the Israel Family Partnership Account with the Merrill Lynch office here. Only he could write checks on the account, which his parents, Archie and Adelaide Israel, of Greensboro, opened in 1998, six years before their deaths in late 2004. Steve Israel received an e-mail in January from a Greensboro accountant working on the account's taxes. The accountant wondered about a multitude of transactions -- totaling $26,345 -- on the Merrill Lynch account statement.

AKRON, Ohio _ Futurists promised us wireless telephones. Now we have them. They promised us itty-bitty boxes that store thousands of songs. We have those, too. So whatever came of the idea of going up to an automated teller machine, having it check your fingerprint and drawing out some cash? The answer is that you can, if you live in Chile or Saudi Arabia. But the folks who make ATMs, such as Green-based Diebold Inc., say the idea just isn't working out in the United States. Fingerprints, retinal scanners, iris readers and palm geometry readers all fall into the category...

<p>SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) -- A former University of Idaho football player has been arrested as a material witness in an investigation of Islamic charities with possible links to terrorism, FBI agents said Tuesday.</p> <p>Abdullah Al-Kidd, 30, was arrested Sunday at Dulles International Airport near Washington, D.C., according to two FBI agents who separately spoke on condition of anonymity. He was carrying a one-way ticket to Saudi Arabia, court documents show.</p>

By the Associated Press [WIBC News] - The Indiana State Police are investigating why a man killed in a car crash was carrying three identifications and four checkbooks with different names. Police initially thought there were two occupants in the car that crashed late Sunday, killing Q. Naim Abdullah, 24, of Plainfield. State police troopers and volunteer firefighters searched the high weeds and mud at the scene of the crash on Interstate 65 in southern Bartholomew County, but no one else was found. Abdulla was traveling northbound at a high rate of speed, swerved to miss a tractor trailer and...