El Paso County mail theft suspect arrested; 150 forged and stolen documents seized
El Paso County sheriff's investigators seized more than 150 counterfeit and stolen documents, including dozens of forged driver's licenses, fraudulent U.S. passports and stolen mail, after a traffic stop.
Richard Allen Jenkins, 42, of the Horizon City area, was arrested as part of an ongoing investigation into mail theft, document forgery and fraud, sheriff's officials said.
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The documents were found Tuesday, March 25, during vehicle search after a sheriff's deputy pulled over a red Ford F-150 for an expired registration on Thackery Drive in the Sparks community in eastern El Paso County, officials said.
After the documents were discovered, detectives from the East Montana Patrol Station Criminal Investigation Unit took over the case and obtained search warrants, including for electronic devices seized during the stop.
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Detectives have contacted the identified victims, who mainly reside at El Paso apartment complexes with past mail thefts. Some of victims had fraudulent credit cards opened in their names, sheriff's officials said.
Jenkins allegedly had a laptop with "forging software," thumb drives, and a printer to make identifications and forged checks, officials said.
Sheriff's detectives also seized:
39 forged driver's licenses
18 forged checks, 25 check copies, 12 blank check backgrounds
16 blank, print-ready identification cards
12 sets of stolen Social Security numbers, four Social Security cards
47 mail skeleton keys, 10 pieces of mail belonging to other people, and a USPS mailbox
10 W-2 forms plus other tax forms
Eight credit cards, four debit cards
Two fraudulent U.S. passports (One person was dead, other was underage)
Jenkins was arrested on state charges of forgery and fraud use/possession of identifying information of 50 or more counts. On Wednesday, he was released from the Downtown El Paso County Jail on a $35,000 surety bond, according to jail records.
Detectives are collaborating with the U.S. Postal Inspection Service for potential federal charges.
Daniel Borunda may be reached at dborunda@elpasotimes.com and @BorundaDaniel on X.
This article originally appeared on El Paso Times: El Paso mail theft suspect arrested; 150 stolen, fake documents found
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