MIAMI — After a City Furniture credit card with the stolen identity of a man in Torrance, California, was approved, a woman in Miami went shopping, according to deputies.
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The purchases at a City Furniture store in Hollywood were delivered to a townhouse at the InTown Apartments in Little Havana, according to deputies.
Ashley Almeida had also used someone else’s identity to lease the townhouse at 1900 SW 8th St., according to a Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office deputy’s arrest report.
Detectives started investigating fraud in April after Synchrony Bank reported stolen identities were behind several City Furniture credit card accounts.
Kevin Kattoura, a City Furniture employee in Oakland Park, had “submitted” 10 of the applications, and “received commission payments for the fraudulent sales,” a Broward Sheriff’s Office deputy wrote, according to an arrest report.
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