October 15, 2024 – FRESNO, CA – Sean Lamont Wyatt, 47, of Los Angeles County, was sentenced last Wednesday to two years and six months in prison for committing identity theft and aggravated identity theft, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.

According to court documents, in June 2021, 27 pages of victims’ personally identifiable information were found in Wyatt’s assigned inmate bunk at the federal prison in Atwater. Investigation revealed that while Wyatt was incarcerated, he used a contraband phone to call victims’ banks and creditors. In the phone calls, Wyatt used the victims’ names, dates of birth, addresses, and social security numbers to falsely identify himself and to add himself as an authorized user on the victims’ accounts. Wyatt did this to boost his own credit and then to apply for new credit lines.

This case was the product of an investigation by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service. Assistant United States Attorney Brittany M. Gunter prosecuted the case.