OneMain Financial Bank in St. Lucie West was almost a two-time victim in one man’s alleged scheme to collect thousands of dollars in bank loans under a stolen identity.
An alert from the bank’s external fraud group notified staff at the St. Lucie West branch that a fraudulent application had been submitted online. When the would-be loan applicant arrived, he was ushered into a waiting room and police were called.
Ultimately, Jackson Clesidor, 34, of Miami, was arrested and charged with three felonies, including possession of a counterfeited driver’s license, defrauding a financial institution, and fraud by impersonating another without consent to receive $5,000 or more.
Clesidor was taken to the county jail where he is being held on $110,000 bond. There are two other holds for him, though. One hold is issued with the state of Georgia, which wants him on a number of felony charges. The other is a hold for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Why ICE is interested in Clesidor was not immediately known.
Georgia authorities want Clesidor for two counts of RICO violations, identity fraud and 25 counts of illegally gaining entrance into vehicles.
Closer to home, authorities say Clesidor filed a loan application in the amount of $8,000 using a stolen identity and fake driver’s license. Port St. Lucie police investigators were able to track down the ID theft victim who notified them he wanted to press charges.
The OneMain Financial Bank branch manager told investigators that they also suspected Clesidor to have previously filed a fraudulent loan application using another fake identity.
In that case, he was able to walk away from the bank with $16,000.
According to the arrest report, the external fraud group noted the I.P. addresses, which resulted in the red flags.