Trini Student in Jail For Identity Fraud

From the ArchivesUSA, Thursday, October 20, 2005Twenty year old Trinidad & Tobago-born student, Shiva Brent Sharma was yesterday sentenced to two to four years in prison for Internet-based indentity theft.Sharma, who lives in Queen’s New York admitted his guilt of the crime he had now committed for the third. He was already warned twice before by a judge, in both instances previous, He also pled guilty on two counts of identity theft in the first degree and money laundering in the fourth degree.The Trinidadian student admitted that he fraudulently obtained the personal identity information and credit card numbers of various individuals and used and that information to buy thousands of dollars in auto parts,computer and jewelry. He also confessed to using the stolen credit card numbers to send $50,000 in money transfers to himself using Western Union and bought and resold over $10,000 worth of merchandise.