IRS worker accused of credit card fraud (used stolen SS#)

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/3777639.html

An Internal Revenue Service employee was arrested Thursday and accused of stealing another person's Social Security and credit card numbers for a shopping spree, officials said.

Authorities arrested John Sebastian King, 43, at work at the Dallas office of the IRS after a federal indictment earlier this week charging him with 12 counts of fraud.

The indictment alleges that King used someone else's Social Security number to obtain the person's credit card numbers. King, an Irving resident, used the card numbers to buy luggage, furniture, tires and other items, according to the indictment.

A spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney's office declined to specify King's job or whether he had used his post to obtain the Social Security number.