MAN GUILTY OF STEALING HIS OWN IDENTITY

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AS crimes go this one is one of the more inventive - stealing your own identity and going on a big old spending spree.
But Andrew Neal forgot one thing - the stores he went into had video cameras.
The 23-year-old reported that between March 3 and April 6, someone had entered his car  and stolen his wallet, containing his driver's license, social security card, debit card, savings account book, and two books of checks.
Then he claimed someone had made a number of purchases and cash withdrawals from his accounts in amounting to almost $5000 and reported the fraudulent activity to Chase Bank.
But the vehicle showed no sign of forced entry and the bank told cops in Irvington, NY that Neal's account had never been fraudulently accessed.
Then they found the footage and who should be on it, but Neal himself. 
Needless to say he's been charged with one count of attempted grand larceny in the third degree, a class E felony, and one count of falsely reporting an incident, a misdemeanor.