Mortgage Company Owners Arrested For Stealing, Using Ex-Employee, Potential Customer IDs To Obtain Secured Credit Lines

In Suffolk County, New York, the Long Island Press reports:

• A Massapequa couple was arrested [...] after they allegedly used the identities of two people to obtain mortgages, Suffolk police said. Angela Sutphen and her husband, Matthew Sutphen, owners of Cornerstone Bancor Mortgage Corporation on Merrick Road, used the identities of a former employee and a potential customer to obtain mortgage lines of credit, according to Identity Theft Unit detectives.

• Following a search of their home and business, the Sutphens were arrested outside Second District Court in Lindenhurst, where they were scheduled to appear on an unrelated real estate dispute. Matthew, 47, and Angela, 50, were each charged with two counts of identity theft. Angela was additionally charged with two counts of forgery. [...] United States Postal Inspectors and Suffolk police are continuing to investigate.

Source: Massapequa Couple Charged With ID Theft.