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An Oklahoma City man was brought up on charges of conspiracy regarding the stolen identities of account owners at certain financial institutions. The identities were used to produce phony checks and counterfeit identification cards.
The federal indictment consists of 10 charges accusing 39-year-old Michael David Beck of stealing documents from the mail in order to gather personal and financial information. Beck is charged with stealing checks to determine whether an account was funded or not and then creating fake checks using the information from the stolen ones. He is also accused of allegedly stealing check cards and credit cards from people's mailboxes.
Beck and an unknown accomplice used passports, social security card and other identification that they had stolen to make fake identification, using their own photographs, which were used to cash the counterfeit checks.
The banks targeted by Beck and his co-conspirator, include the MidFirst Bank, Nichols Hills Bank, SpiritBank and Bank of America. The 10 charges against Beck consist of one count each of mail theft, bank fraud, identity theft and conspiracy to commit fraud, also three counts each of identity theft, aggravated identity theft and knowingly creating and owning counterfeit financial documents.
Beck's crimes can be sentenced with up to 30 years in jail and/or a $1 million fine plus terms of restitution, for the charges of bank fraud and conspiracy.
The other charges, mail theft, aggravated identity theft and knowingly creating false securities can land Beck in jail for up five years and include a fine of up to $250,000, plus restitution. Additionally Beck may find himself in jail for up to another year and fined up to $100,000 for the identity theft charge.
The grand jury also released an indictment against Louella Oldbear, who was once the secretary of the business committee on the side of the Arapaho and Cheyenne Tribes.
Previously Oldbear, age 55, was charged with stealing more than $13,000 from the revenue generated by tribal gaming, and then purchasing a new vehicle with the money. Two more charges have been added to Oldbear's indictment to include another $3,511 in funds, and a fraudulent statement that Oldbear made to investigators.
If convicted, Oldbear could spend up to five years in jail and/or pay up to $250,000 in fines.
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