A San Antonio couple have been charged with identity theft, bank fraud and conspiracy over allegations they bought several vehicles and jewelry in recent years using stolen Social Security numbers.  David Edward Reyes was released on $10,000 unsecured bond after a hearing Thursday before U.S. magistrate Judge Nancy Nowak.  Reyes told the judge he was a supervisor at CPS Energy, but his lawwyer said his client later told him he mispoke and said he worked for the city of San Antonio,.

He and his wife mary mercy lopez both are named in a 10 count indictment charging them with conspiracy, identity theft and bank fraud.  They both entered a plea of not guilty.  The couple used stolen credits cards to purchase items such as vehicles.   Reyes is also charged with financial institution fraud stemming from the purchase of a 2004 harley motorcycle..  Keep in mind the records show since 2003 they have been purchasing corvettes, cadillacs and other motorcycles using stolen social security numbers.

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This case involves payments of fees and restitution.  A former community supervision officer,  Tanna Mozel Tyler Hurt, also known as Tanna Brown, was indicted Monday on dozens of felony charges of embezzlement of fees and restitution paid to her by probationers.  It’s a shame a public servant did what she did, kerr County Sheriff Rusty Hierholzer said of Hurt, who resigned in September after six years with the  198th judicial distirct community supervision and corretctions department.  She was the director of the county’s juvenile detention center before moving to the adult probation job.

Its reported that a grand jury indicted Hurt on one count of theft by a public servant, five counts of tampering with a government record and 29 counts of forgery.  These are very serious criminal charges that will require the expertise of an experienced white collar crime attorney, for more than 35 years I have been representing clients accused  of  similar criminal charges.

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Sec. 32.21.  FORGERY.  (a)  For purposes of this section:

(1)  ”Forge” means:

(A)  to alter, make, complete, execute, or authenticate any writing so that it purports:

(i)  to be the act of another who did not authorize that act;

(ii)  to have been executed at a time or place or in a numbered sequence other than was in fact the case;  or

(iii)  to be a copy of an original when no such original existed;

(B)  to issue, transfer, register the transfer of, pass, publish, or otherwise utter a writing that is forged within the meaning of Paragraph (A);  or

(C)  to possess a writing that is forged within the meaning of Paragraph (A) with intent to utter it in a manner specified in Paragraph (B).

(2)  ”Writing” includes:

(A)  printing or any other method of recording information;

(B)  money, coins, tokens, stamps, seals, credit cards, badges, and trademarks;  and

(C)  symbols of value, right, privilege, or identification.

(b)  A person commits an offense if he forges a writing with intent to defraud or harm another.

(c)  Except as provided by Subsections (d), (e), and (e-1), an offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor.

(d)  An offense under this section is a state jail felony if the writing is or purports to be a will, codicil, deed, deed of trust, mortgage, security instrument, security agreement, credit card, check, authorization to debit an account at a financial institution, or similar sight order for payment of money, contract, release, or other commercial instrument.

(e)  An offense under this section is a felony of the third degree if the writing is or purports to be:

(1)  part of an issue of money, securities, postage or revenue stamps;

(2)  a government record listed in Section 37.01(2)(C);  or

(3)  other instruments issued by a state or national government or by a subdivision of either, or part of an issue of stock, bonds, or other instruments representing interests in or claims against another person.

(e-1)  An offense under this section is increased to the next higher category of offense if it is shown on the trial of the offense that the offense was committed against an elderly individual as defined by Section 22.04.

(f)  A person is presumed to intend to defraud or harm another if the person acts with respect to two or more writings of the same type and if each writing is a government record listed in Section 37.01(2)(C).

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