Update: Rachel Dolezal has announced her resignation as embattled president of the Spokane chapter of the NAACP.
Dolezal came under fire last week for lying about her race for the past 8 years.
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A 31-year-old Texas woman posed as a 15-year-old high school student for 6 months before her true age was revealed.
Police say Charity Anne Johnson was living on the streets when a friend took her in and enrolled her at a private religious high school in Longview.
The friend, Tamice Lincoln and her boyfriend eventually suspected Johnson was using a fake identity. Lincoln said she called the police and went straight to the school.
Real Housewives of Atlanta cast member Apollo Nida is working on a plea deal with the federal government to avoid a trial, according to the AJC's Rodney Ho (via Radar Online).
Any plea deal will involve prison time for Nida who was arrested in January and charged with bank fraud and identity theft.
Nida's wife, Real Housewives of Atlanta cast member Phaedra Parks will represent him in court.
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Real Housewives of Atlanta co-star Apollo Nida surrendered to US Marshalls yesterday on charges of bank fraud and aggravated identity fraud. Nida appeared in front of a US magistrate judge at US District Court in downtown Atlanta.
A savvy identity thief who stole the identity of a local reporter to purchase a Mercedes was released from jail last week, the Atlanta Journal-Consitution reports.
Erkes Antwon Green, 28, (pictured left) was released from DeKalb jail on $105,000 bond on March 3, despite evidence that he stole the identities of 142 people to file bogus tax returns and purchase at least 3 luxury cars.