Today's Evil Beet Gossip

One Tree Hill Star: Identification Thief

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Nothing disgusts me more than wasted opportunity, and lately we’ve been seeing a lot of that. Reality stars killing their wives, children of rich actors pushing meth and now, an actual working actor has admitted to being a part of an identity theft ring.

Antwon Tanner, who you may know from One Tree Hill, Coach Carter or Boston Public admitted yesterday in a Brooklyn court that he sold social security numbers and three fake cards to Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers that were part of a sting operation. And have we mentioned yet that this is a thirty-five year old man?

Apparently Tanner wasn’t in this alone, in fact, he was just the middle man, passing on the goods for an unnamed party in exchange for a cut of the ten thousand dollar profits. This is why you don’t do illegal favors for people, kids! Especially for the extremely paltry sum of ten grand! Now Tanner faces up to ten years in federal prison, although he could get off with as little as six months to a year as the numbers were not actually used to defraud anyone up until the point they were sold.

Clip coupons, kids! Buy generic! There are better ways to make some extra spending money in this crappy economy!

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