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NFL’s No 1 draft pick Cam Ward victim of identity theft in $250,000 scheme

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Cam Ward, quarterback of the Tennessee Titans, playing in Nashville on 19 October 2025. Photograph: George Walker IV/AP

Two people armed with a number of false identities managed to fraudulently obtain a quarter of a million dollars’ worth of loans in the name of Cam Ward, the quarterback of the National Football League’s Tennessee Titans, according to authorities.

Albert Weber, 42, and Cyntrelle Lash, 39, are facing charges of identity theft, bank fraud and forgery after their arrests in a case whose victims allegedly include the first overall pick in the 2025 NFL draft, his father and the business that loaned out the money in question, said Capt Jason Rivarde of the sheriff’s office in Jefferson parish, Louisiana, outside New Orleans.

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