Federal agents on Monday, May 13, arrested a California man on identity theft and other charges in connection with a scheme to steal money from another man’s bank account.
Auston Chad Cohen, 29, of Lancaster, Calif., was already in the Lubbock County Detention Center on four state charges: Fraud, forgery and theft felony counts, plus a misdemeanor charge of providing a false identity card.
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Lubbock police arrested Cohen April 6 when he tried to withdraw $25,000 from another man’s bank account at the Wells Fargo Bank office in the United Supermarket store at 50th Street and Avenue Q.
According to the LPD arrest report, Cohen was carrying $7,500 cash, which he’d withdrawn the day before at a Wells Fargo location in Amarillo.
The police report said Cohen presented a Social Security card and California driver’s license in the name of the victim, Erick M. Lee, but had substituted his picture on the driver’s license.
A federal grand jury indicted Cohen on fraudulent use of an access device to obtain more than $1,000, false representation of a Social Security card, one count of identity theft and two counts of aggravated identity theft.
He has been in jail since his arrest because he has not been able to post the combined $9,000 bond on the four state charges.
