Ron Nichols picked the wrong person’s credit card to steal: a top-ranking prosecutor for the Sedgwick County District Attorney’s Office.
Nichols used a Visa belonging to Chief Assistant District Attorney Sally Salguero to go shopping online last March.
The 43-year-old, who lives in the 2000 block of Green Acres, ended up charged with 12 counts of identity theft and 10 counts of computer fraud.
Court records say Nichols used Salguero’s charge card for most the month of March.
After pleading guilty, Nichols faces sentencing next week before Judge Eric Comer.
Nichols was arrested on April Fool’s Day.
Ted Riley Floyd, who caused a stir throughout Orthodox Jewish communities in Brooklyn, N.Y., and New Jersey after living for years under an assumed name, was sentenced in Wichita to a year and a day in prison for his unusual identity crime.
U.S. District Judge Monti Belot handed down the sentence today and ordered Floyd to serve three years’ probation after he gets out of prison. Belot also said Floyd cannot use any name but his own, or apply to legally change his name without the permission of his probation officer.
Floyd, 28, had lived as Nathaniel James Levi in the Orthodox community of Lakewood, N.J., for years until his arrest this spring under charges that brought him to Wichita. Floyd had lived here before moving east and had applied for a U.S. passport under the name of Nathaniel Levi, a deceased military veteran. Floyd pleaded guilty in April to putting false information on a passport.
The revelation of Floyd’s true identity shocked the large Lithuanian Jewish community in Lakewood, where he lived with his wife and children, who continue to remain there. According to reports from close friends, proper Orthodox Jewish conversion rites have been performed to allow his wife and children to remain there.
The name on the indictment is “John Doe,” but the identity-theft case emerging at the federal courthouse in Wichita has made big news for weeks in the nation’s Orthodox Jewish community — especially in New Jersey where the man and his wife lived for years under an assumed identity.
U.S. Magistrate Don Bostwick learned the man’s real name is Ted Riley Floyd after he arrived in Wichita for a court hearing three weeks ago. But in the Hasidic Jewish community of Lakewood, N.J., where he lived, practiced the Orthodox culture and sent his children to school, the 29-year-old was known as Nathaniel James Levi. He’s charged with making a false statement on a passport application.
The Yiddish news site Vos Iz Neias (What’s News) reports the discovery of Floyd’s true identity as “the biggest exposé to hit the bastion of Torah Judaism in years.” Concerned that members of its community had been exposed to a lifestyle that literally was not kosher, VIN tracked down Floyd’s former rabbi in Wichita to confirm Floyd had officially converted to Judaism. Rabbi Pinchas Aloof appeared on the Zev Brenner talk show to confirm he had converted Floyd.
A recording of the show appears on the blog Yid-Vid.com. Floyd’s antics have also made YouTube, including this parody: “Nathan Levy (sic) Dancing.”
Floyd had left Wichita with a couple of misdemeanor theft warrants pending in Reno and Barton Counties, according to a federal investigation. Bostwick ordered Floyd held without bond.The judge said in his order that Floyd was contemplating whether to stand trial in Wichita, or ask to return to New Jersey, where he could face more serious charges. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Kansas would have to approve such a move.
Update:Â Floyd is scheduled for a change of plea hearing April 28 before Judge Monti Belot.
