Legal Niches

A adult female who used a purloined driver's licence to purchase a $419,000 town house have been sentenced to five old age in prison.

Prosecutors state 40-year-old Elizabeth Cabrera-Rivera was caught when she refinanced a 2nd mortgage on the home, and the depository financial institution sent an overpayment bank check to the victim. She had also obtained two mortgages for the house in the victim's name and deeded the house to herself.

At Friday's sentencing hearing, the victim, Jose Lara of Winchester, told an Arlington Circuit Court justice that the fraud had devastated him financially. He was turned down when he tried to refinance his ain place and when he tried to acquire a concern loan for his hauling company, which he had to sell.

Cabrera-Rivera's husband, Lorenzo Castro, pleaded guilty to three misdemeanour personal identity larceny complaints in September and is awaiting sentencing. Her brother, Juan Carlos Cabrera-Rivera, have fled to Bolivia.