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Cincinnati Man Yaw Mintah Afari Jailed for Fraud, Using Stolen Identity to Get Married, Become Father

Yaw Mintah Afari, 47, of Cincinnati, was sentenced in U.S. District Court Friday to 27 months in prison for fraud.

He used a stolen identity for decades, compiling an extensive criminal record, getting married and fathering a child all under the assumed identity.

Court documents detail that the victim of Afari’s identity theft has significantly suffered from having his identity stolen. For example, the victim was arrested in 2009 for a warrant in Georgia for a crime that Afari committed while using his identity.

The victim later had to take a DNA test to prove that he was not liable for child support payments for a child that Afari fathered under the victim’s name. Further, the victim lost his job as an Uber driver because of the criminal record Afari compiled under his identity.

Afari was born in Ghana in 1977 and entered the United States on a visitor’s visa in 1999. Afari obtained a Virginia driver’s license in 1999. In July 2001, he was charged with assault in Fairfax, Virginia.

After his assault charges, Afari stole the identity of an acquaintance that lived on his road.

Afari used the stolen identity in connection with various arrests, including on fraud, theft and forgery charges in Georgia in 2007 and 2009. The defendant was convicted and sentenced to prison terms for the crimes in Georgia and was paroled in 2012.

In 2018 or 2019, Afari moved to Cincinnati and then married a woman, using the stolen identity for a marriage certificate in Hamilton County. He also fathered a child while using the assumed identity.

Afari applied for a passport in Cincinnati using the victim’s name in February 2022, which led to an investigation into his true identity.

The defendant was charged and arrested in March 2024. He pleaded guilty in October 2024.

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