MARIANNA — A Jackson County woman was arrested Wednesday and charged with open several credit accounts in her mother’s name.
Patty Thames was charged with four counts of criminal use of personal identification information and one count of exploitation of the elderly. In addition, state probation officers obtained a warrant for Thames for the violation of her probation from a previous charge.
The investigation began when a 70-year-old woman said authorities that she had obtained a copy of her credit report and learned that someone had obtained several credit cards and had opened numerous lines of credit in her name.