>>Reading Man Indicted for Federal Cell Phone Fraud, Identity Thefts
(Reading, PA) -- The U.S. attorney's office has sentenced a 32-year-old man from Reading for being part of a scheme to illegally get more than 800 cell phones. Shaderick Jojo Opare was sentenced last week. With partners in Ghana, he is said to have stolen more than 240 identities across the country and in the Mid State in order to open Sprint cell phone accounts. He was also ordered to pay over 185-thousand dollars in restitution to Sprint.