BOSTON (AP) - Federal prosecutors in Boston say they have charged 12 people who used the stolen identities of U.S. citizens to illegally obtain Social Security numbers, Medicaid and other benefits they were not entitled to.
Prosecutors said Thursday that 10 of those charged are not in the U.S. legally and six have criminal records in the names of the victims whose identities they stole.
Authorities say the identities stolen were from residents of Puerto Rico.
Eleven of the 12 were charged with aggravated identity theft and false representation of a Social Security number. One was charged with misuse of a Social Security number. They all lived at one point in the Merrimack Valley.
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