HAHNVILLE – St. Charles Parish authorities arrested a Destrehan man who allegedly stole the identity of a Hahnville man in an effort to pay a large cell phone bill according to a release from the Sheriff’s Office
Benjamin Dewey, 47, of 283 Meadows Drive, was booked on charges of identity theft over $1,000 after he allegedly used electronic funds belonging to a 53-year-old Hahnville man to pay a past due cell phone bill of about $4,000, said Capt. Pat Yoes, public information officer for the Sheriff’s Office. Yoes said the incident began sometime in June 2008.
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Dewey, who was arrested Monday, was booked into the Nelson Coleman Correctional Facility in Killona. He is being held on a $10,000 bond set by Judge Lauren Lemmon.
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