Police in Durham Region have arrested and charged a woman from Brampton in connection with an auto-financing fraud scam.<\/p>\n
Durham Regional Police Service (DRPS) says on Sept. 30, a female submitted an online application to purchase a 2027 Mercedes SUV at Mercedes-Benz dealership in Durham, using another person\u2019s identification. <\/p>\n
They say the application included images of ID documents, including a Canadian passport displaying the suspect\u2019s photograph but identified the victim as the holder. <\/p>\n
The application was ultimately approved, and financing was arranged through a financial institution.<\/p>\n
Prior to the vehicle being released, however, the victim was notified of the purchase. They reported it to both DRPS and the dealership as a case of identity fraud.<\/p>\n
On Oct. 8, a female suspect was taken into custody without incident when she attended the dealership to complete the transaction and take possession of the vehicle.<\/p>\n
Skylar Porter, 39, of Brampton, has been charged with one count each of fraud over $5,000, utter forged document, personation, possession of identity document, and possession of cocaine. The charges have not been tested in court.<\/p>\n
The accused was released on a promise to appear in court at a later date.<\/p>\n
This investigation is ongoing and anyone with further information is asked to contact Det. Stuart, of Durham police\u2019s Financial Crimes Unit, at 1-888-579-1520, ext. 5353, or Crime Stoppers anonymously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police in Durham Region have arrested and charged a woman from Brampton in connection with an auto-financing fraud…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":932231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194339],"tags":[712,51759,49,48],"class_list":["post-932230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brampton","tag-apple-news","tag-brampton","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=932230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/932231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=932230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=932230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}