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TRENTON
- Attorney General Paula T. Dow and Criminal
Justice Director Stephen J. Taylor announced
that a Union County man has pleaded guilty
for his role in a scheme to steal other
people’s identities and engage in
credit card fraud.
According
to Acting Insurance Fraud Prosecutor Riza
Dagli, Andres A. Correa, 30, of Elizabeth,
a.k.a. Frank Perec, pleaded guilty yesterday
(Aug. 11) to second-degree trafficking in
personal identifying information of another
and second-degree identity theft before
Superior Court Judge John S. Triarsi in
Union County. The charges were contained
in a Union County grand jury indictment
returned on April 9.
Judge
Triarsi scheduled sentencing for Oct. 18.
Under the plea agreement, the Office of
the Insurance Fraud Prosecutor will recommend
that Correa be sentenced to three years
in state prison.
At
the guilty plea hearing, Correa admitted
that between July 1 and Oct. 1, 2008, he
obtained credit card numbers of more than
10 Delta gas station customers without their
knowledge. Correa then used the credit card
numbers to create other credit cards that
were used to commit fraud.
Correa
also admitted that he knowingly impersonated
“Frank Perec” and, acting in
that identity, committed a total of eight
thefts at two Home Depot stores in Union
County.
Detective
Jarek Pyrzanowski, Analyst Christina Runkle,
and Deputy Attorney General John J. Higgins
were assigned to the investigation. Deputy
Attorney General Higgins represented the
Office of the Insurance Fraud Prosecutor
at the guilty plea hearing. Acting Fraud
Prosecutor Dagli thanked the Roselle Park
Police Department, the Port Authority of
New York and New Jersey Police Department,
and the Linden Police Department for their
assistance.
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