Man Accused of Banking With Someone Else's I.D.

A man accused of banking using someone else's identification was arrested at a Lake Forest Wells Fargo on Wednesday.

Jose Francisco Duenas, 39, had opened an account at the Wells Fargo at 24251 Rockfield Blvd. a few weeks earlier, using an assumed name, said Sgt. Angel Andrade of Lake Forest Police Services.

It came to the bank's attention that the same name was being used by a customer in another state, Andrade said. The bank investigated and ascertained that Duenas was not using his own name, he said.

When Duenas came into the bank Wednesday to make a transaction, employees called police, who detained the man. Duenas initially insisted that he was the same person identified by the Nevada driver's license and Social Security card he had been using, Andrade said.

But during subsequent investigation, Andrade said, Duenas admitted to using false identification. He had put his own picture on the Nevada driver's license, which he said he had purchased a few years earlier in order to open a bank account and get jobs, Andrade said.

"We don't know for sure if he wanted to actually do the banking and be able to send money to his family in a different country, which is what he was saying, or if he was trying to rip this guy off," Andrade said.

Duenas was charged with burglary, possession of fake identification and fraud. He's being held at Central Men's Jail on $20,000 bail and is due in court Friday.