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CARPENTERSVILLE, Ill. (AP) _ Police say identity theft is the reason the Internal Revenue Service recently warned a seven-year-old boy from the northwestern Chicago suburb of Carpentersville that he owed back taxes on $60,000.
Officers said Friday the second-grader's identity has been in use by someone else since 2001 _ not long after his birth.
Detectives accused 29-year-old Cirilo Centeno of Streamwood of using the boy's personal information to obtain a truck, three separate jobs, gas and electrical service for his home, a credit card, unemployment benefits and more than $60,000 in pay and services. Centeno was charged with felony identity theft.
