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SALT LAKE CITY — A West Valley man faces 31 federal charges in connection with alleged forgery and identity theft crime sprees in Salt Lake County in 2013 and 2015.
Prosecutors say Kevin Russell Humphreys, 35, stole mail, identifications and checks, and then forged the checks for various amounts before cashing them in the names of people whose identities he stole. He also allegedly applied for and received lines of credit using the identities of other people, stole three U.S. Treasury checks and made charges on a stolen credit card.
In all, prosecutors say Humphreys cashed checks totaling $19,500 and ran up nearly $11,000 in credit.
Humphreys is charged with 21 counts of bank fraud, five counts of aggravated identity theft, three counts of securities fraud, one count of access device fraud, and one count of possession of stolen mail. If convicted, he could spend 30 years in prison.
Draper police arrested Humphreys in 2013 on suspicion of raiding residents' mailboxes to get at their personal information. State courts records show he has been charged in the past with several felony counts of identity fraud, unlawful possession of financial transaction cards, obtaining multiple identifying documents of another person, forgery and shoplifting.
