Crime & Safety
Police Blotter: Deerfield Resident Unable to File Tax Return
"The following arrest information was supplied by the Deerfield Police Department. It does not indicate a conviction."
A Deerfield resident learned she was the victim of identity theft April 10 when her husband was unable to file their federal income tax return, according to . Someone else had used her social security number to file a tax return a few weeks before.
The unidentified woman received a call from a United States Postal Service investigator April 2 informing her two suspicious pieces of mail arrived in her name addressed to an apartment in Gary, IN. The investigator asked permission to open it. She agreed.
The envelopes contained two Internal Revenue Service refund cards. The woman did not understand why that would happen because she did not live in Gary and had yet to file her tax return, according to the report.
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Thinking the incident was over because the cards were cancelled; she was mistaken, according to the report. Her husband filed their joint tax return over the weekend between April 6 and 8 and on April 10 he received an email from the IRS informing him a return was already filed in his wife’s name.
Deerfield police took no action because the any alleged fraud would be a federal offense, according to the report. The woman took steps to remedy the situation.
