ROCKINGHAM — A man with pending fraud charges from last year is accused of identity theft and having a stolen gun.
According to a warrant, 44-year-old Anthony Lymal Jamison, of Hamlet, obtained and used identifying information — name, address, date of birth, driver license number — of the reported victim to apply for loans on Oct. 16.
The Rockingham Police Department obtained a warrant for Jamison’s arrest — charging him with one felony count of identity theft — on Nov. 18.
Jamison was also charged by the Hamlet Police Department on Nov. 18 with possession of a stolen firearm and possession of a firearm by a felon for allegedly having a Smith & Wesson .40-caliber handgun that had been reported stolen.
He is being held without bond in the Richmond County Jail and is scheduled to appear in court Dec. 4.
Online court records show Jamison was charged in 2024 with one felony count each of: uttering a forged instrument; accessing computers; obtaining property by false pretenses; and conspiracy.
Records with the N.C. Department of Adult Correction show Jamison has multiple prior convictions dating back more than 25 years.
In 1999, Jamison was convicted on seven counts of misdemeanor breaking and entering (which is labeled as a felony) and five counts of “other felon.”
It appears the breaking and entering charges were upgraded to a felony and that the “other felon” charges were renamed to obtaining property using false coins or tokens when his probation was revoked following a 2000 conviction of selling a Schedule II controlled substance and felony larceny.
Jamison served nearly five years in prison from those convictions.
In 2015, Jamison was convicted of larceny of a motor vehicle, felony larceny in Richmond County, and a misdemeanor count of receiving stolen goods in Scotland County.
All defendants facing criminal charges are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
