Las Vegas woman used fake documents to steal rental cars, police say

A Las Vegas pistillate has been arrested connected individuality theft charges successful what constabulary accidental was a strategy to bargain rental cars successful the Las Vegas Valley.

Briana Kay Parr, 27, was arrested Thursday connected aggregate felonies, including burglary, theft of much than $25,000, obtaining different person’s recognition and forgery.

A Las Vegas constabulary apprehension study for Parr states the probe started erstwhile 2 women showed up astatine Las Vegas constabulary stations connected abstracted occasions, claiming that idiosyncratic had rented vehicles successful their names from car rental agencies adjacent McCarran International Airport. The archetypal pistillate said she was receiving demands from a rental car company, stating she needed to instrumentality a Jeep Compass adjacent though she ne'er rented specified a vehicle. The 2nd pistillate said she was receiving demands for outgo and instrumentality of an Infiniti that she ne'er rented. The 2nd pistillate besides informed constabulary that her wallet had antecedently been stolen successful aboriginal August astatine Sam’s Town connected Boulder Highway.

Police yet obtained surveillance photos of the pistillate who rented some vehicles. Then, connected Aug. 29, constabulary said they came crossed the stolen Infiniti with Florida licence plates astatine an flat analyzable successful the 4000 artifact of Boulder Highway. Police arrested a man, Gilberto Rodriguez, 28, astatine Las Vegas astatine the scene. He was charged with attempted execution aft constabulary helium said helium produced a weapon and threatened to sprout them during a ft pursuit.

This successful crook led officers to Rodriguez’s apartment, wherever they encountered Parr.

Police said successful the apprehension study that Parr resembled the pistillate captured connected surveillance photos renting the stolen vehicles. She besides had successful her possession the driver’s licence of the pistillate who reported the fraudulent rental of the Jeep Compass, constabulary said.

Police said they recovered 3 debit cards successful different peoples’ names successful Parr’s possession on with a “homemade USPS postal cardinal and a forged cheque which detectives were capable to find had the archetypal ink washed disconnected and had a caller magnitude payee rewritten.”

Police said they past questioned Parr.

“Parr did admit that she did fraudulently rent the vehicles utilizing the individuality of another,” constabulary said.

A presumption cheque connected the filing of a transgression ailment successful the lawsuit is scheduled for Dec. 27 successful Las Vegas Justice Court.

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