FORT WORTH, Texas — A Fort Worth man has been sentenced to more than eight years in federal prison for attempting to apply for two passports using stolen identities. Phillip Sean Anthony, 42, was sentenced Wednesday by U.S. District Judge Ada Brown.
Anthony was indicted in February 2024 and pled guilty in November to making a false statement in an application for a passport and aggravated identity theft, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas. He received a 100-month federal prison sentence.
Court documents reveal that Anthony first applied for a U.S. passport on August 16, 2023, using a stolen birth certificate and debit card. After failing to receive the passport, he applied for a second one on January 2, 2024, using another stolen identity. Investigators later found multiple birth certificates, driver’s licenses, and credit and debit cards in various names at Anthony’s residence…