SUSPECTED IDENTITY THIEF, FORGER CAPTURED

Stearn County Sheriff's Deputies have arrested a 22-year old man they suspect of using another man's identity as well as stealing cars and license plates in Central Minnesota earlier this week. Law enforcement suspects Nathan Richard Johnson committed identity theft, car theft and forgery in Morrison, Kandiyohi, Wright, Stearns, and Benton Counties. He had been using the identity of Brian James Marquardt as well as his driver's license and check book. Johnson remains in custody in the Stearns County Jail.