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TRENTON
- Attorney General Paula T. Dow and Criminal
Justice Director Stephen J. Taylor announced
that a Union County man was sentenced to
state prison today 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, was sentenced to three
years in state prison by Superior Court
Judge Robert J. Mega in Union County. The
sentence was based on Correa’s guilty
plea to second-degree trafficking in personal
identifying information of another and second-degree
identity theft. The charges were contained
in a Union County grand jury indictment
returned on April 9.
In
pleading guilty on Aug. 11, 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 former Deputy
Attorney General John J. Higgins were assigned
to the investigation. Deputy Attorney General
Dennis Kwasnik represented the Office of
the Insurance Fraud Prosecutor at the sentencing.
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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