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ELEVATED Identity-theft complaints doubled last year. We got suspicious when the dog walker wanted our Social Security number.
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RAY KELLY, New York City Police Commissioner, on the arrest of a New Jersey man in one of the nation's most baffling missing-children cases, the disappearance more than three decades ago of 6-year-old Etan Patz.
