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Decatur police arrest man on 3 counts of identity theft

By Rebecca Teutsch,

2024-08-27

DECATUR, Ala. ( WHNT ) — The Decatur Police Department arrested a man for identity theft during an investigation in July and August.

DPD said multiple people reported stolen credit and debit cards were used as well as unauthorized transactions at businesses in July and August.

During the investigation, Frederick Levon Burkfield was named the suspect.

On August 24, Burkfield was arrested in Huntsville and transported to Decatur. He was charged with three counts of identity theft and seven counts of fraudulent use of a credit or debit card.

He was booked into the Morgan County Jail with a $40,000 bond.

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Marie Davis

08-31

I don't know where the thin blue line of having a faked counterfeit name and identitys and faked documents like faked birth certificates ends but one day I was so stressed that I took off to the Salvation Army but a cute cop stopped me and said you know since you gave me that faked names that I could arrest you and I laughed and said like right and thought this cute cops has never noticed my name thats faker than hell and he can't noticed it and must be new as hell to the sheriff's department and does not know of Howell Heflin and Doug Jones and Jeff sessions offices faked counterfeit documents of new names and identitys and birth dates and i just wanted to say like right your going to arrest me like what the @@@@ that florence ala is floating with faked counterfeit new names and identitys of faked counterfeit documents and that my real name is not even my real name and what the hell my hair is sold white

Jane Knight

08-27

So his bond is $40,000 and the woman that cut her boyfriend/husband up, gets $10,000 bond?

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