Murder for IDs

Taking advantage of people to take advantage of others. A murderous identity theft ring busted. Tribune front page story, with this toward the end:

Some of the action detailed in the transcript takes place inside the Nuevo Munoz Foto shop, owned by Elias Munoz, father of Ald. Ricardo Munoz (22nd). The elder Munoz has pleaded not guilty to felony fraud charges.

In between are pages of orders for stolen Social Security card numbers and phony driver's licenses by "salesmen" using cell phones registered to people as far away as California and driving cars traced to unwitting suburbanites in Illinois, Wisconsin and other states.

Recall the reaction to the initial spring sweep. Criminals in a community prey on it, and endanger everyone.

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