On Friday, a man who had been previously charged for stealing the name of a missing child was charged again for the same crime.
Behzad Mofrad, 46, of San Ramon, was charged with fraud for using the name of Jacob Wetterling, who has been missing since 1989, court records show.
http://liarcatchers.com/identity_theft_investigation.html
Jacob was kidnapped while bike riding home with his friend and brother when a masked gunman stopped them in the driveway of a home in St. Joseph, Minn. on Oct. 22, 1989. The gunman grabbed Jacob and he has not been seen since.
An FBI affidavit filed in U.S. District Court in Oakland, states that Mofrad used Jacob’s name to rent a post office box in Lafayette and lease a 2013 BMW from an Alameda County car dealership, reports the San Francisco Chronicle.
Mofrad was convicted of doing the same thing back in 2006, when he took the name of another missing boy, Kevin Collins.
Kevin, 10, left his CYO basketball practice at St. Agnes School in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco and walked to a bus stop at Oak and Masonic in February of 1984. That was the last anyone has seen him.
Mofrad told police, he took Kevin’s name from an online directory of missing children and used it to apply for a passport using his own photo. Mofrad plead guilty and was sentenced to 33 months in federal prison, reports the Oakland Tribune archives.
