Fraud Unit

The Fraud Unit is staffed with four Detectives and one Sergeant that is shared with Property Crimes. This unit is responsible for investigating cases involving identity theft, insufficient funds and account closed checks, embezzlement, counterfeiting, financial crimes, theft by deception, frauds and scams, forgeries involving all types of documents and items, tax and peddler violations, trademark crimes, and computer-related financial crimes.

This unit works closely with the United States Postal Inspection Service, the U.S. Secret Service, the U.S. Social Security Administration, the U.S. Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General, and the U.S. Immigration Service, since many of these crimes cross over into federal jurisdiction. The Fraud Unit works with a variety of agencies and businesses throughout the United States with internet and other financial crimes investigations.

The Fraud Unit is committed to crime prevention and sponsors fraud and identity theft prevention seminars to both business and service organizations and does numerous radio and television appearances in an attempt to keep our citizens current on this fast changing area of crime. Financial losses can be staggering in these cases. These Detectives may have to review years of business and financial records to make a case.

The Fraud Unit investigated 1,640 cases in 2008.