Identity Theft

Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Lee’s Summit, Mo., woman pleaded guilty in federal court to a series of embezzlement schemes totaling more than $1.5 million.

Sedalia Police conducted a traffic stop just after 2 a.m. on October 20 that led to the arrest of a Warsaw woman.

Police say a Springfield woman stole credit card information from customers of a heating and air conditioning company and transferred more than $6,500 to Greene County Jail inmates.

The Federal Trade Commission says robo-calls are the number one consumer complaint they receive, and these types of calls are on the rise. Experts warn that this kind of call is an early step in a phone fraud scheme that can lead to identity theft. Here's how it works.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Federal authorities are searching for a St. Louis musician accused of identity theft. The U.S. Attorney's office in St. Louis on Wednesday announced charges against 29-year-old Olufunsho Adeshina of St. Louis, a guitarist who is a native of Nigeria...

Doing your taxes is unpleasant enough already, but there are also some shifty characters out there who want to make the pain even worse.