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07/19/2024

Los Angeles County Man Pleads Guilty to Identity Theft Offenses Committed While in Federal Prison

United States Attorney's Office Eastern District of California

FRESNO, Calif. — Sean Lamont Wyatt, 46, of Los Angeles County, pleaded guilty today to identity theft and aggravated identity theft, United States Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced. 

According to court documents, in June 2021, 27 pages of victims’ personally identifiable information were found in Wyatt’s assigned inmate bunk at the federal prison in Atwater. Investigation revealed that while Wyatt was incarcerated, he used a contraband phone to call victims’ banks and creditors. In the phone calls, Wyatt used the victims’ names, dates of birth, addresses, and social security numbers to falsely identity himself and to add himself as an authorized user on the victims’ accounts. Wyatt did this to boost his own credit. Wyatt then used his boosted credit to apply for new credit lines.

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