Koster Announces Major Identity Theft Bust in Kansas City

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster says it's one of the biggest cases of identity theft he's ever seen on a local level.

On Tuesday, Koster announced 17 criminal charges against a Kansas City auto dealer who he says used potential customer's credit information to obtain loans, then pocketed the loaned money.

Koster says luckily Edge Motors owner Terry Morrow Jr. is not the sharpest tool in the shed.

"How he thought he was ever going to get away with this scam is unclear to me, but he did it to at least 44 people on the Kansas City area."

Koster says Morrow was able to get more than $1 million in loans before finance companies began catching on to his scheme.

"An alert consumer called up  his or her credit report, and saw this fake loan on there and then it just blew up from there. Frankly, we don't know if we've identified everyone as yet."

Morrow's currently under arrest in Illinois, but will face charges in Missouri.