EX-CON SENTENCED FOR IDENTITY THEFT AND DRUG OFFENSES.Byline: Karen Maeshiro Staff Writer LANCASTER - A Lancaster ex-convict has been sentenced to more than 21 years in prison for using other people's financial information to illegally obtain cell phones, phone service and laptop computers. Jack Sirman, 35, was arrested after sheriff's deputies found him and a woman in a car at night in the desert north of Lancaster with a pouch pouch (pouch) a pocket or sac. abdominovesical pouch one formed by reflection of the peritoneum from the abdominal wall to the anterior surface of the bladder. of methamphetamine methamphetamine (mĕth'ămfĕt`əmēn): see amphetamine; methedrine. , a drug pipe, and a bag containing other people's credit cards, driver's licenses Noun 1. driver's license - a license authorizing the bearer to drive a motor vehicle driver's licence, driving licence, driving license license, permit, licence - a legal document giving official permission to do something and fraudulent checks. Sirman was sentenced Friday to 21 years and four months in prison. He also was ordered to pay $4,667 in restitution In the context of Criminal Law, state programs under which an offender is required, as a condition of his or her sentence, to repay money or donate services to the victim or society; with respect to maritime law, the restoration of articles lost by jettison, done when the , including $3,400 to computer maker Dell and $892 to Home Depot The Home Depot (NYSE: HD) is an American retailer of home improvement and construction products and services. Headquartered in Vinings, just outside Atlanta in unincorporated Cobb County, Georgia, Home Depot employs more than 355,000 people and operates 2,164 big-box . Prosecutors said Sirman's case illustrated a pattern that authorities are seeing more often: drug users using people's identification information to exchange for drugs. Sirman was convicted last month of 19 counts, including forgery forgery, in art forgery, in art, the false claim to authenticity for a work of art. The Nature of Forgery Because the provenance of works of art is seldom clear and because their origin is often judged by means of subtle factors, art of checks, receiving stolen property, identity theft, unlawful possession of credit card information, grand theft and possession of methamphetamine. Sirman's victims included businesses and four people whose financial or credit information he stole to use or try to use to obtain merchandise illegally, prosecutors said. One of the victims was Dell. Using information from another person's checking account, Sirman established a line of credit over the computer with Dell, ordered merchandise using the other person's information, and received two laptop computers, a laser printer, printer cartridges
Sirman has a prior conviction of residential burglary from 1988, a 1999 conviction for possession of methamphetamine and a 2002 conviction for passing a fraudulent check. Sirman must serve 80 percent of his sentence because of the burglary conviction, prosecutors said. The defense had argued that the woman Sirman was with when he was arrested in November 2004 was the actual mastermind. The woman testified against him at the trial. Sirman's attorney could not be reached for comment. Karen Maeshiro, (661) 267-5744 karen.maeshiro(at)dailynews.com |
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