Editor's note: This story has been edited to: 1. Anonymize the accused as Sudbury.com will not be following the case through to its conclusion, and; 2. note that charges against one of the accused have since been withdrawn.
Two Southern Ontario residents are charged with identity theft, and several other offences, after it was revealed that a bank account in Powassan had been ripped off for thousands of dollars.
Ontario Provincial Police at North Bay said they were advised in the fall that money was missing from a local account at a bank in Powassan.
Officers began an investigation and found that a bank card for that account had been issued at a bank in Southern Ontario. The card was being used to make several cash withdrawals, money transfers and point of sale transactions. The total came to nearly $86,000 said police.
Police said they were able to track down and file charges against two residents living near Toronto.
A 26-year-old of Vaughan, Ontario, was charged with the following:
-Fraud Under $5000 Dollars (four counts) contrary to section 380(1)(b) of the Criminal Code (CC);
-Identity Theft - Possess Another Person's Identity Information (four counts) contrary to section 402.2(1) of the CC;
-Failure to Comply with Release Order (eight counts) contrary to section 145(5)(a) of the CC; and
-Possession of an Identity Document contrary to section 56.1 of the CC.
Police said the accused is being held in custody pending bail and is scheduled to appear in court in Newmarket on February 1, 2021.
Charges against another person, age 27, have been withdrawn.
