CBS12 reports on a case I’ve been updating on this site for the past few years: A Palm Beach County Sheriff‘s deputy received five years in prison after pleading guilty in an identity theft case. In March, Deputy Frantz Felisma pleaded guilty to federal charges of aggravated identity theft and access device fraud. He admitted to using his sheriff’s office laptop to gather people’s personal information, then passing it on to a friend. A judge sentenced Felisma Tuesday to five years in prison.

Mike Stucka reports: The Palm Beach County sheriff’s deputy arrested Thursday on federal identity-theft charges is tied to a longtime scamster who pleaded guilty this year to a $283,00 identity theft, as well as being part of a $387,000 fraud to rent dozens of houses that weren’t his. A Homeland Security agent’s affidavit against deputy Frantz Felisma, 42, says another criminal identified as K.J. would ask Felisma to use his law-enforcement computer access to get details of people driving expensive cars, then use that information to get credit cards with their information and steal money he used, in part, to get his own expensive cars. Read more on Palm Beach Post.

Paula McMahon and Adam Sacasa report: A Palm Beach sheriff’s deputy faces identity theft and fraud charges for abusing his access to a law enforcement database to steal people’s personal information, authorities said Thursday. Another man arrested in the same case told investigators that he agreed to pay Deputy Frantz Felisma $10,000 a month in exchange for the deputy routinely obtaining the personal information of people who owned luxury vehicles, records show. U.S. Magistrate Judge William Matthewman agreed to keep Felisma jailed Thursday after prosecutors raised concerns he could flee the country. Read more on Sun Sentinel.