BRADENTON - For as little as $125, authorities say, two Bradenton men gave undocumented immigrants what they could not get lawfully: driver's licenses, green cards and Social Security documents. The IDs, created using fake names and stolen Social Security numbers, meant the undocumented immigrants could get jobs and drive cars, privileges typically afforded only to people with legal documentation, investigators and prosecutors say. ...more

October 26, 2007

SARASOTA COUNTY - A box of Blockbuster video store forms with credit card and Social Security information that was dumped in a trash container last week now is under Sarasota County Sheriff's Office protection. ...more

October 25, 2007

Blockbuster video sent a letter about corporate document shredding policies to all its stores this week after a Sarasota store's membership forms and employment applications were discovered in a trash container. ...more

October 24, 2007

SARASOTA - Jonathan Murray was fishing in a trash container for boxes Friday when he found what could have been a thief's bonanza. Amongst the trash from a Blockbuster video store were membership forms and employment applications that included names, addresses, credit card numbers and Social Security numbers. ...more

October 23, 2007

A man who was looking through a dumpster behind a Sarasota Blockbuster video store found several boxes of paper with sensitive financial information from customers. ...more

October 22, 2007

A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the government could not use mismatched Social Security data to ferret out illegal immigrants from the workplace. ...more

October 11, 2007

Investigators are looking for a second suspect in a scheme that used the identities of 16 nursing home patients to open charge accounts at stores. ...more

September 14, 2007

Investigators are looking for a second woman they say was involved in a scheme in which the personal identities of 16 St. Petersburg nursing home patients were used to open charge accounts at stores. ...more

September 13, 2007

PENSACOLA - A Girl Scout troop leader accused of stealing her young Scouts' Social Security numbers and netting $87,000 in a tax scheme pleaded not guilty Tuesday. Federal prosecutors say Holly M. Barnes, 33, asked parents of the 18 girls in her troop to give the children's numbers on a fake medical release. ...more

September 5, 2007

A Girl Scout leader accused of stealing her scouts' Social Security numbers and netting $87,000 in a tax scheme pleaded not guilty to the charges Tuesday. ...more

September 5, 2007