A Kennewick man pleaded guilty Thursday to forging a $1,500 check and using stolen personal information from an elderly man to open credit card accounts.
Trevor Nelson Aagaard, 20, will be sentenced Feb. 26 on forgery and second-degree identity theft charges.
Prosecutors plan to recommended Aagaard serve six months in jail, the top of the standard range.
Aagaard caught the attention of Kennewick police Sept. 26, when he tried to cash the forged check at a Money Tree.
Aagaard also stole credit card information and the Social Security card of a 70-year-old retired Kennewick man "after having been let into the house to use the bathroom," court documents said.
He used the information to buy more than $1,500 worth of items, and opened three new credit accounts, documents said.
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