A Lancaster, Calif., man will spend two years in federal prison for trying in April to use false identification documents to loot another man’s bank account.
Auston Chad Cohen, 29, received the sentence Thursday, Nov. 21, from U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings.
Cummings ordered him to spend a year on supervised release after he finishes his sentence.
Cohen also must pay $27,800 in restitution to Wells Fargo Bank.
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Two years is the maximum federal sentence for aggravated identity theft.
Lubbock police arrested Cohen on April 6 at the Wells Fargo in-store branch at the United Supermarket at 50th Street and Avenue Q, where he had tried to withdraw $25,000 from the bank account of another California man, Erick Lee.
According to police reports of his arrest, Cohen had tapped Lee’s account at a Wells Fargo branch in Amarillo for $7,500 the day before.
In addition to the aggravated identity theft charge, a federal grand jury indicted him about two weeks after his arrest on charges of fraudulent use of an access device containing more than $1,000, false representation of a Social Security card, a second count of aggravated identity theft and one count of identity theft.
A bank employee contacted police, and Cohen was arrested when the officer determined birth date on a driver’s license in Lee’s name didn’t match up with Cohen’s age, court documents state.
