Adrian Joseph, Identity Theft, Connecticut 2022

A 55-year-old St. Lucia citizen has been sentenced for using a stolen identity to obtain federal documents, including a U.S. passport, a Social Security Account Number card, and a Connecticut driver’s license.

Adrian Joseph, who has been living in Bridgeport under an assumed identity for approximately 20 years, pleaded guilty to one count of use of a passport secured by a false statement and one count of false representation of a social security account number.

Using his stolen identity, Joseph obtained multiple identity documents from various governmental agencies, including a U.S. passport, a Social Security Account Number card, a City of Bridgeport voting registration card, and a Connecticut driver’s license from the Connecticut Department of Motor Vehicles.

In February 2020, Joseph visited the CT DMV in Norwalk and, using fraudulent identity documents, successfully applied for and received a REAL ID driver’s license.

The individual whose identity Joseph used informed the government that his identity documents were stolen in the late 1990s.

On August 2, 2022, Joseph pleaded guilty to the charges and was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Sarah A. L. Merriam in Bridgeport to approximately nine months of imprisonment, time already served.

Joseph, who is detained, now faces deportation proceedings.

The matter was investigated by the U.S. Department of State, Diplomatic Security Service and the Social Security Administration Office of Inspector General, with the assistance of the U.S. Marshals Service Fugitive Task Force, Connecticut Department of Motor Vehicles Police and Bridgeport Police Department.

The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Hal Chen.

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