Posted: Feb 2, 2025 / 08:57 PM PST
Up to date: Feb 2, 2025 / 08:57 PM PST
(BCN) — A Fairfield man was sentenced this week to 4 years in federal jail for financial institution fraud and identification theft, Appearing U.S. Lawyer Michele Beckwith introduced.
In 2018, Steven Daniel Miller, 48, used one other particular person’s social safety quantity to finish a credit score utility with a financial institution in an effort to purchase himself a Dodge Challenger Hellcat in Yuba Metropolis, prosecutors stated.
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Based mostly on the stolen credit score info, the financial institution authorized the mortgage and turned over about $75,754 to the automobile dealership, which then handed him the keys to the brand new automobile.
Miller pleaded responsible final Might to at least one rely of financial institution fraud and one rely of aggravated identification theft, however he failed to look for sentencing in October, prosecutors stated. He was arrested in November and has remained in jail till his sentencing Thursday.
Miller was additionally ordered to pay $36,205.81 in restitution.
