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On June 24th, 2025, officers were dispatched to a bank for a call of a man referred to as Fedora Man attempting to access a home equity line of credit for approximately $25,000. Employees noticed his ID appeared to be fake and immediately alerted authorities. >> Hey, how's it going? >> Good. >> I I don't have an ID on that ID over there. >> You stand with him for a second. >> Pass this way. >> He still got his phone, right? >> Yeah. I told him not be on it. >> Okay. put up on his leg. He say text. He say he's not talking to anybody though. >> I told him we're glad we're having this interview inside here. >> Yeah. No kidding. >> That's for damn sure. That's a positive for us. >> Some things we got to figure out. So if you want to talk to us, that's fine. Just want to see if you will want to talk to us. >> But I got I bought his book when we owned our property. But if you want to look at it, I'll bring it to you. >> Just ask. >> Okay, cool. Yeah. We're going to head back to the precinct if yall don't mind. >> All right. Will you mind taking him for me? >> Yeah. Do >> you have anything in your pockets? Anything like that? Any weapons or anything like that? So, you're going to be able to get in the back of his car. >> So, that stuff I'll have to take cuz you can't take that in the back of the car like >> Yeah. Is that Bluetooth? >> Yeah. I I take it out. >> Yeah. Where's your phone? >> You got a car out there? >> No. >> How'd you get here? >> Uber. >> Okay. Yeah, this go. It ain't comfortable. We ain't going very far. >> All right. >> Y'all probably going to have to rapid ID him. Yeah, I figured you have a login >> cuz he already gave me a false name. Does your login work to that? >> I never had one. >> Bet. This is going to be fun. >> Uh cuz he already gave me one false name. I told him that he had one chance to give me his real name. >> Just racking up charges. >> Well, I told him if he straightened up and gave me the right name, then uh maybe >> then I'd forget about it. >> Yeah. >> But uh he first name he gave me was like Kurt Nuts. And I'm like, "Okay, maybe." >> Oh, yeah. cuz that's the name on this ID. >> Okay. >> Curt, >> but when I told him that we had the rapid ID cuz it wasn't coming back cuz he told me he didn't have a Georgia license. He's got one out of Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania, which where he said it was out of Not really, but it's he's he's been suspended for a long time. >> Let me see it. >> Yeah, it don't look nothing like him. He put on a lot of weight and facial hair. >> Hello. Thank you. My name is Detective Trump. I already introduced myself at the jail or at the uh sorry the he was at the jail. Where were we? At a bank. >> Yes. >> Yes. So this is Detective Dial. Um so did he tell you if you were under arrest or not? >> No. Oh, you are. Um just so you're aware, sir. Do you have an ID? Your own ID? No. Whose ID is this? Well, I mean, that's your picture, honestly. But I'm just trying to figure out exactly. I mean, obviously, we're here for a reason, right? >> You know, this is a decent, but pretty clear fake. We see them all the time. The bank sees that stuff all the time. You can understand why they called. >> Um, so I don't know what they told you uh before they called or how the bank >> What what how did that interaction go when you got there? They just stalled them. >> Oh, okay. So, you got to the bank. You came, you said you Ubered. >> Do you know what kind of car you came in? >> I forget the make and model. >> Okay. General idea color. >> There's white. >> White sedan. SUV. >> Sedan. >> White sedan. >> Okay. Did you sit in the back? You sit in the front. >> Back. >> Back. Okay. Small one. Nice one. Larger. Midsize. >> Kind of midsize. It was clean. >> That's a Uber. Okay. Um, what about this? Is this That's fake, too, right? >> You can be honest with me. I mean, we're at the point where we can just be honest with each other. You know, I I I wasn't sure if he told you or not. That's why I let you know. These are clear fakes. We are here already and I just wanted you to be as honest with me as possible because that looks a hell of a lot better for you in the long run. If you're you come clean with me, you tell me everything that's going on, I think there's a lot more going on and I think you know exactly what I'm talking about. I just want to talk about all that stuff and if you know it it's something that we can do later. We do it a lot. You know, I can do a case file at the end and I can tell the DA's office, you know, you know, he was honest. He owned up to everything, apologetic, sympathetic to everything. And that looks a lot better when the DA's office is looking at stuff. Lie to me, and they're not trying to help you at all. You know what I'm saying? So, I can't promise you anything. Obviously, that's not the type of position I'm in. Uh, I follow up with the cases, pass on to the DA's office, but me telling them that you were cooperative looks a lot better when it gets to that point. Um, so can you just walk me through today? >> Your whole day. Let's just start there. What did you do this morning? >> I woke up from the hotel. >> What time? >> Um, like 600 7:00. >> Okay. >> And then from there, just went about my day to try to see if I could make some money. >> What do you mean by that? I mean, I just I got I gotten older and I tried to >> So, you got to the bank at 1:28 p.m. You woke up at 6:00 or 7:00 a.m. So, what kind of happened in between there? Did you go anywhere else or? >> Not really. >> Anything like that? >> No. >> I was just waking up, getting myself together for the day. >> You obviously present yourself very well when you go to these banks and probably helps you when you get there. Um, do you do have you done this before? Have you ever gone to any other banks or anything like that? >> Not really. No. >> No. Okay. Um, what about Did you you didn't go anywhere else today? >> No. >> Yesterday? >> No, I stayed in my hotel yesterday. >> Okay. Have you been to any other United Community Banks in the Atlanta area? >> Not that I'm aware of. >> No. Okay. This is a guy you met at Walgreens. Yeah, it was a guy. >> Guy, black, white, Hispanic, Asian? >> Hispanic. >> Hispanic guy. >> Do you know what kind of Hispanic? >> Uh, I think Puerto Rican. >> Do you know his name? >> No, we don't really go by names. >> What did you call him? >> Chief. >> Chief. Is his info on your phone? Uh, I think I erased it. I'm not sure. >> So, if I do a search on your phone and get a full forensic dump of it, I won't get his info at all or his phone number, any messages from him? >> Probably not him, though. >> What about other folks? >> I mean, yeah. >> Involved in this >> type of thing. So, this is the only person you've ever talked to involved in this kind of case or in this kind of work. Um, you obviously present yourself well. We obviously have done this before uh because nobody just goes into a bank with that kind of confidence and that good of a fake ID and tries to get stuff off of someone's ID and even know to go to the dark web to pay $500 to somebody to get the info to create the IDs to do all this stuff. So, I want you to try and elaborate a little more and be a little more honest with me when you tell me you've never done this before. I mean, I've done it in the past, but >> when was the last time you did this? >> Or actually, let me modify my question. When is the last time you got arrested for doing something like this? >> Um, the end of last year. >> When? >> The end of last year. >> The end of last year. Where was that at? >> North Carolina. >> Okay. You sure that wasn't this year? >> Actually, it was the beginning of this year. I think physic the same type of thing. >> Uh yeah. >> What were you charged with? >> Um possession of a ID forger. I don't think so. Well, I know you're charging possession of an ID and I'm trying to be specific. >> I know. I I just don't remember. Okay. Hold on one second. I can't get it. >> It's right here. >> You already pulled that. >> Yes. >> Oh, I pulled that. >> Oh, well, I just did the same thing. >> Oh, there you go. I thought you were doing it. Um, all right. So, when did you meet this person to get this guy's driver's license or his info? Excuse me. >> When I was on my way to the to the bank >> today. Yeah. >> So, he made the card or you made the card? >> He made it. >> Okay. >> So, you How did you communicate with Chief? >> Usually by usually just called. >> You just called him. So, he already had the info or >> Yeah. >> Okay. So, that's where you That's how you paid 500 for it, right? >> Thought you got on the internet. He he gets it off the internet. >> Let me ask where you got it from. >> So, do you you paid $500 for that or he paid $500 for it? >> I paid $500 for it. >> Okay. So, when you go to these banks and and try attempt or are successful in getting all this money, what happens to it? Do you pay them some? You keep it all for yourself? Like, what's what's the plan? >> I try to keep it all for myself. What do you do with it? try to invest. >> Yeah. You're living out of a hotel, so it's obviously not working very well, right? >> Nope. >> Don't have a car. >> How long have you been doing this? >> Not this long. About not very long at the back. >> I mean, all right. So, >> I'm I'm a carpenter by trade and it just work got slow, dried up. >> Okay. Right. So, that's what I'm asking you. So, when did this when did that start? >> When did it dry up? >> Earlier in the year. No, it's not this year. >> Just be honest. >> It was the end of last year. >> So, so here here's the deal. You're in this situation right now. Right as we sit here, you are the only one on the hook for whatever comes down on top of you. Right. >> Correct. We're talking to you trying to find out with some sort of clarity or maybe some sort of uh honesty, I guess, or maybe um I don't know the word I'm looking for, but we're giving you the opportunity to talk about this to potentially save other victims or find out other people involved or whatever. And if you don't want to if you don't want to implicate anybody else or there's nobody else involved, that's fine. We're just trying to give you the opportunity to tell your story >> and and the stuff that you're telling us isn't making sense already. We haven't even gotten very far. But what you're saying isn't making any sense. It doesn't line up with anything. You've obviously been doing this longer than just today or this year or the end of last year. So, I'm trying to figure out how this all came about. If you were a carpenter and work started sucking and you're like, "Man, I got to survive. I got to make some money. Then that's your story. And I don't fault you for it. I just want to know your story. >> That's my story. >> Okay. When when were you working as a carpenter? >> In New York. >> How long ago did you leave New York? >> Earlier this like around the end of last year. >> Okay. And then where did you go from New York? >> Came [clears throat] down here. >> You went from Why did you pick Georgia? It's nicer than New York, obviously. >> Um, it's a lot warmer, too. >> So, so you came down here and and what happened when you came down here? Did you come down here with the idea of doing this kind of stuff or or or like what was your plan? >> I really didn't have a plan. >> So, how did you get into this? How did you find out about this? that did some research, use Google, how to make money, >> how to scam people. >> I need to understand something. Like I like I get this is a quick buck for you and you try to to to turn your own life around, but you [ __ ] people's lives up when you do this [ __ ] >> That that's plain and simple, >> right? >> I'm sure you've heard of stuff like that. I'm sure you've seen that probably firsthand. You may have had a relative that has had their identity stolen, but now you're on the other side of it. You're the one that's doing that to people. >> I see what you're saying. >> So, you can see why we're passionate about working for our victims in this sense. Does that make sense? >> Yes. and the the least you can do is have the decency to just be honest with me in an interview and just tell me what the hell they're doing so I can try and stop it in the future because I've already got you. My my whole situation on this is you like he was saying people having somebody's identity stolen. I don't know if it's ever happened to you, but they have to go through a lot to get their stuff secured again and to get these accounts taken off their credit report or whatever. At the end of the day, the bank is the victim because these people didn't uh they didn't do these transactions. So, the bank is the one that's out the money. Cool. Banks are billion-dollar corporations who probably screw people over left and right on a daily basis. Would you agree with that? All right. So, I'm not Don't think about this as a dollar amount. think about this is how can we help these people from this happening in the future is essentially what we're trying to do at just curious like because I've had I've had cases like this before very similar situations however that individual was like you know what [ __ ] these guys they left me to rot and I'm holding my hand in the cookie jar I'm going to tell you everything I know because yeah I wanted to make some money. I'm not going down for their [ __ ] plan. And he laid out everything that happened, what states he'd been to. He gave me names, even though there were street names, difficult to find. He gave me car descriptions. He was like, "Yep, on this date, we went here. I went to this branch, walked inside, sat down, spoke to this girl, told her I needed the money for this, and we went through the process, and she hands me a check, and I immediately cashed it there from the like everything." And because he wants to help himself. Now again, I want you to understand the situation you're in. The only thing you can do is help yourself. Because if you tell us to go [ __ ] ourselves, then that's fine. We'll go do that. But then the hammer's coming down. So, and if that's all you got, then it is what it is. But I want to give you the opportunity to help yourself. And I want to tell you that I believe that there's a lot more or other people involved because you've been seemingly very honest with us. You've told me all about that. You admitted to that. You admitted to doing stuff yesterday. You admitted to everything at the hotel and you're still shaking like a [ __ ] leaf. >> As far as you're not worried about any retaliation, anything like that, giving up any names, you don't think somebody's if you give somebody's name, they're going to get you or whatever. >> I know they will. So, there is some other people involved. >> I mean, I can't do it. I look by myself. >> We know that. [snorts] >> That's why we're trying to get something to go on here. >> Who was waiting in the parking lot? >> I got dropped off. Who was waiting nearby? You had no escape plan whatsoever. You expect me to believe that? >> You're pretty experienced at this by now. >> I was just going to >> You just wing it every [ __ ] time hoping you don't get arrested. >> Pretty much. >> That's the story you're going to stick to. >> Single thing that's in your phone that has anything to do with something like this, you're getting charged with each individual thing. I hope you know that. A lot of [ __ ] stuff. I bet. And based off what I've gotten from the bank today, there's a bunch of other banks, United Community Banks from the last few days and last few weeks that are going to be charging you in other jurisdictions as well. So, even if you bond out here, you're just going to go there. >> No, there's not going to be a bond. >> Yeah. Yeah. Even if you got one later and went through that whole [ __ ] And so, but we'll leave you our card. Um, if you want ever want to help yourself at all, maybe you can reach out to one of us from the jail email thing or something and ask to speak with us if you decide to miraculously think of some more information. Okay. Any questions for me? >> I got a phone call. >> You want to get to the jail. >> All right. Sit tight. We'll have you out of here in a few minutes. Okay. You want any water or anything on that? Please. >> Yeah, sure. >> You would have to have a cigarette, would you? >> Uh, I would not. >> The man was charged with identity theft and forgery. Further investigation concluded the man is wanted for similar crimes across multiple locations in the state of Georgia. He has yet to be sentenced and is still under multiple investigations. Thanks for watching today's video. If you haven't already, please like and subscribe for more of our content.

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