Uchenna Azubuike (Source: Moultrie Observer)
The US feds have adopted and taken over the case of identification fraud involving a Nigerian man, Uchenna Azubuike,
29 charged with 13 counts identification fraud in Thomasville. The feds
adopted the case over suspicions of ties with terrorist activities...Read more after the cut...
Moultrie Observer broke the news on their website a couple of days ago.
According to the news site, Uchenna
Azubuike was arrested while trying to flee in his 2010 Infiniti vehicle,
from the Thomasville Verizon store. Unknown to him, employees at this
store have been on high alert after a New Jersey woman’s identification
was used to purchase phones in the store in late February. So after he
(Azubuike) entered the store to purchase two iPhones worth $1,700,
police was notified.
Speaking on the arrest, Detective Scott Newberry
said the accused refused to identify himself and had to be taken in and
transported to jail where his identity was learned through
fingerprints.
Twelve more passports, two iPhones, an
iPad, and other documents related to identity fraud were found in the
car after search at the Jail-Justice impound yard.
Capt. Maurice Holmes
commander of the Thomasville Police Department Criminal Investigations
Division revealed that he is of “Nigerian descent” and has a “long
history” of fraudulent activity with a Nigerian connection. He also
revealed suspicion of terrorist ties.
According to reports, the suspect will
remain remanded in Thomasville until he is indicted by a federal grand
jury. Then he will then be transported a federal facility.
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