A boy died in 1977 at age 14; decades later, a stranger allegedly used his identity for 25 years to collect nearly $284,000 in government benefits

• Image Credit: Wikimedia CommonsCarlos Ramon Obregon was 14 when he was killed in Los Angeles in 1977, but his identity resurfaced more than two decades later in a fraud case spanning 25 years.
• According to the US Department of Justice, an unidentified man used Obregon’s personal details to obtain identification documents and government benefits worth about $284,000.