Warrant issued in identity theft scheme

WARREN – An arrest warrant has been issued for a 28-year-old former Sky Bank employee who is charged with identity theft.

The warrant was obtain by Detective Wayne Mackey for Lee Ann Plunket, whose last known address was Canfield Road, Youngstown.

Mackey said that Plunkett, while working at the former Sky Bank call center on Main Street here, allegedly obtained customer identification information and passed it along to her boyfriend and others in 2006.

Sky merged with Huntington Bank in July 2007.

The scheme also involved the setting up of false bank accounts so money could be transferred from customers’ to the false accounts, said Kasey Shidel, an assistant Mahoning County prosecutor who handled the original complaint.

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