DPS: 4 arrested after 9-month ID theft investigation

Authorities say four men were arrested when detectives with an Arizona ID fraud task force wrapped up a 9-month investigation into an identity theft group that was making fake IDs through a wide-scale criminal syndicate.

According to the Arizona Department of Public Safety, the multi-agency Arizona Fraudulent Identification Task Force (AFIT) served search warrants at three Phoenix homes early Thursday morning and arrested the suspects.

Arrested were Omar Balderrama Chalino, 29, Miguel Angel Cucto-Compos, 23, Enrique Valle-Araujo, 22 and Pavino Bahena-Baldez, 22.

DPS said one of the suspects had been previously arrested for drug possession, DUI, false reporting and fraudulent schemes and another had been previously arrested in an unrelated case for manufacturing fraudulent identifications.

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