The investigation into Wednesday's shooting at the downtown Courtyard by Marriott Omaha indicates the four people arrested may have been part of an identity theft ring.
investigators seized methamphetamine, syringes, a laptop and a copier, 15-20 credit cards, ATM cards, school IDs, Social Security cards and hair dye from the suspects' two rooms.
Jason Galle and Dana McCoy had just checked into the hotel and investigators think they were planning on staying awhile. “It sounds like they have the beginning of a sophisticated identity theft ring,” says Jaimee Napp, head of Nebraska's Identity Theft Council.
She can't help but think how the alert hotel clerk who questioned the use of the Marriott Rewards card contacted the owner and then police and how the quick-thinking deputies checking out the stolen card call prevented big-time financial pain for others.
"Our information's worth about $20 on the street. So when they smash and grab, they're trying to find as much as they can, steal the mail right out of your mailbox and bring it all to one location and add it up. This is how much you get and then they trade it."
The top two on this week's Council Bluffs Most Wanted are Jason Galle and Dana McCoy, both wanted for theft.
Five years ago, when Bellevue Police recovered a stolen car, they found Jason Galle's paperwork inside, furlough documents from an Iowa prison so he could go to his mother's funeral in South Dakota. When investigators checked with the prison, Galle never returned and was a fugitive.
Galle, McCoy and their two associates face theft, drug and gun charges.
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