By Archie Ingersoll
The Journal Gazette
FORT WAYNE — Prosecutors allege that a Fort Wayne mother and son stole the identity of a prison inmate so they could receive thousands of dollars in student financial aid through IPFW.
In March, IPFW police received a report from the inmate, housed at Westville Correctional Facility, saying that someone had used his personal information to apply for student loans, according to court papers. The inmate told police that financial aid money was being deposited into an account opened in his name.
Investigators went to the mailing address given for the loans and spoke with Glenda Hardin. She told them her son, Tiso Martin, had done time in the Westville prison with the inmate who made the report, court papers stated.
Hardin told police that in April or May 2011, her son called her from prison and that she received the inmate’s personal information. In June 2011, she applied for financial aid through IPFW, using the inmate’s information and forging his signature, as though he was a student looking to take classes, court papers said.
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