Using someone else's credit card without authorization is charged as Identity Theft in Denver, Golden, and Brighton. A man is facing this charge after what I can only describe as an insane example of karma coming to bite you in the butt. According to the report, the man was at a restaurant and used a credit card to pay his bill. The only problem was, the credit card belonged to the waitress – and she had no intention of paying for his meal. The waitress reported that her purse had been stolen from her car a few days earlier. When police arrived at the restaurant, the waitress's social security card and driver's license was found in the man's possession. I mean, what are the chances?

Jefferson County Identity Theft Lawyer: Definition of Identity Theft with Credit Card in Adams County

The Adams and Jefferson County, Colorado law definition of Identity Theft – C.R.S. 18-5-902 – is:

(1) A person commits identity theft if he or she:

(a) Knowingly uses the personal identifying information, financial identifying information, or financial device of another without permission or lawful authority with the intent to obtain cash, credit, property, services, or any other thing of value or to make a financial payment;

(b) Knowingly possesses the personal identifying information, financial identifying information, or financial device of another without permission or lawful authority, with the intent to use or to aid or permit some other person to use such information or device to obtain cash, credit, property, services, or any other thing of value or to make a financial payment;

(c) With the intent to defraud, falsely makes, completes, alters, or utters a written instrument or financial device containing any personal identifying information or financial identifying information of another;

(d) Knowingly possesses the personal identifying information or financial identifying information of another without permission or lawful authority to use in applying for or completing an application for a financial device or other extension of credit; or

(e) Knowingly uses or possesses the personal identifying information of another without permission or lawful authority with the intent to obtain a government-issued document

The man would likely be charged under subsections (a) and (b) for attempting to use the credit card and possessing the woman's personal identifying documents.

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