Authorities Thursday sought the public’s help in identifying a suspect who, according to the Los Angeles Police Department, has been using other people’s personal identification information to rent apartments across Los Angeles while using counterfeit checks. <\/p>\n
The suspect would fill out rental applications with other people’s personal information then provide counterfeit cashier’s checks to landlords and property management companies.<\/p>\n
In September 2025, the same suspect tried the same tactics in the Hollywood and Larchmont areas, the LAPD said. <\/p>\n
In another incident, the man, who is described to have dreadlocks and a beard or goatee, filled out an application online and receive the keys to an apartment after giving the landlord a bad cashier’s check. When the landlord, realizing he got a counterfeit check, went back to the property, he found strangers living in his apartment, according to LAPD Detective Juan Campos. <\/p>\n
Victims told the LAPD that the suspect identified himself as Igor. <\/p>\n
Investigators released the suspect’s photo as they believe they may be additional victims, especially rental and property management companies or owners. <\/p>\n
Victims or anyone with information about the suspect was urged to contact the LAPD at (213) 486-5995.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Authorities Thursday sought the public’s help in identifying a suspect who, according to the Los Angeles Police Department,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[13074,48,52,51,5015,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-41911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-fraud-false-statements","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-lapd","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41911","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=41911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}