AJAX -- Suspicious Rogers employees helped Durham cops nab a man suspected of using false identification to make fraudulent cellphone purchases in Ajax.
It's alleged the suspect stole the identities of real Rogers customers to order the phones, then had them delivered to addresses where he'd sign for the shipments. But when Rogers employees caught onto the scam, they called in Durham police, fraud Detective Mark Stone said.
"They started putting two and two together and checked into it," he said.
When a shipment of Blackberry devices was delivered to an Ajax address Tuesday, Durham officers watched as a man signed for the phones, then got into his car and drove off with them. The cops stopped the car at Westney and Kingston roads, seizing the phones. Officers also found the man to be in possession of two more phones, in contravention of a court order.
Jermaine Grant, 22, of no fixed address, faces fraud charges. He was also charged under new identity theft legislation that came into effect Jan. 6, the first such charge laid by Durham police.
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