Identity Theft - poor choice of victim

Man steals identity of sex offender:

Call it a case of mistaken identity theft.

Worried his four drunken driving arrests in Florida would prevent him from getting a Connecticut driver's license, James Perry assumed his neighbor's identity, police said.

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But when Perry got arrested for disorderly conduct and identified himself as Robert Kowalski, he learned just what kind of trouble surrounded his former neighbor. A routine police background check revealed Robert Kowalksi was a convicted sex offender in Michigan and not registered in Connecticut as required by state law, police said.

Read it at Findlaw.