Police said complaints continued to pile up Tuesday against a 42-year-old man who is accused of using stolen documents to assume false identities and defraud Chicago area businesses and residents.
On Monday, Rolling Meadows police said the suspect, Anthony J. Paxton of Wheeling, admitted using IDs he had stolen from numerous people to write $50,000 in bad checks and buy an additional $50,000 worth of merchandise with stolen credit cards since last September.
In addition to the charges placed in Rolling Meadows Tuesday, Paxton was charged with credit card fraud, possession of forged doctor’s prescriptions, and possession of blank prescriptions, said Sgt. David Scanlan.
Scanlan said Paxton allegedly stole the prescription forms from his doctor of 25 years. Paxton then allegedly used the prescription forms to buy a drug which has amphetamine-like effects and then resell the drug on the street for cash, police said.
Paxton was charged Monday in Rolling Meadows with forgery for opening up a bank account in the name of an Oak Forest man whose identity Paxton had allegedly assumed with stolen ID cards.