Philadelphia man, 50-year-old Anthony Johnson, has been sentenced by Connecticut federal court to 16 years in prison for stealing from patrons at movie theaters for two years. Johnson reportedly targeted theaters that were playing romantic comedies, as those were popular among women, and crawled along movie theater floors to steal the patrons’ credit cards from their purses.
According to prosecutors, Johnson carried out his crimes in Greenwich, Fairfield and Colchester between 2008 and 2010. He and his female accomplices with then use high-tech computer equipment to make fake driver’s licenses with the victims’ names on them, and use these stolen identities to use the credit cards to buy tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of clothing, jewelry and electronics. They also used the credit cards for gambling and lavish vacations.
Johnson’s accomplices testified against him in court, saying that they worked together and would steal between $50,000 and $70,000 on a good weekend.
Interestingly, Johnson is the son of of Paul Williams, an original member of the Motown musical group The Temptations. Johnson said he was trying to build his own entertainment business, and characterizations of him as a “snake” for the way he slithered along movie theater floors to carry out his crimes was incredibly damaging for his reputation, particularly now that such information is so widely available on the Internet.
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