{"id":290456,"date":"2026-04-28T23:05:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T23:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/290456\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T23:05:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T23:05:24","slug":"bakersfield-man-sentenced-to-5-years-in-prison-for-wire-fraud-identity-theft-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/290456\/","title":{"rendered":"Bakersfield man sentenced to 5 years in prison for wire fraud, identity theft scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A 30-year-old Bakersfield man who prosecutors say used stolen identities and mail to finance purchases and withdraw cash has been sentenced to five years in prison, announced the U.S. Department of Justice.<\/p>\n<p>Kyle Matthew Lisman, 30, was sentenced on Monday to five years in prison for wire fraud, possessing stolen mail and aggravated identity theft.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/bakersfield-man-allegedly-used-stolen-ids-to-buy-car-open-fake-credit-accounts-doj-crime-us-department-of-justice-social-security-checks-kern-county-prison-fine-usps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bakersfield man allegedly used stolen IDs to buy car, open fake credit accounts: DoJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to court documents, from January through July 2023, Lisman devised a scheme to steal victims\u2019 identities to defraud them.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors stated in July 2023 that Lisman used the name, Social Security number, and other personal information of another person to fraudulently purchase a car at a Bakersfield car dealership. He paid $40,000 to purchase the car on the dealership\u2019s website before traveling to the dealership to pick it up, then presented a fake driver\u2019s license to complete the purchase.<\/p>\n<p>Lisman created the fake driver\u2019s license using the victim\u2019s state-authorized ID, but with his own photo.<\/p>\n<p>Court documents also say Lisman caused other victims\u2019 mail to be forwarded to his address by filing and submitting fraudulent change-of-address forms for the mail recipients.<\/p>\n<p>Between May and July 2023, Lisman allegedly opened credit and debit cards in other people\u2019s names and used the cards to withdraw thousands of dollars in cash and make purchases.<\/p>\n<p>In September 2023, Lisman was accused of possessing several credit cards, checks and debit cards in other people\u2019s names.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Postal Inspection Service conducted the investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A 30-year-old Bakersfield man who prosecutors say used stolen identities and mail to finance purchases&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77405,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-290456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}