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No one makes the news when their charges are thrown out. No one cares by then. The damage is already done.

Google the name MD Reaz and you’ll still see his mug shot from 2014 when Toronto Police charged him and his wife with a $3 million credit card fraud.

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Picked up by dozens of news outlets in the city and beyond were the serious allegations in the police press release: that between May 2011 and Oct. 2014, the couple applied for more than 100 credit cards and used other people’s names on the applications. They purchased gift cards, appliances, home renovation products and other items from Home Depot and then made payments using NSF cheques.

“Md Sumin Reaz, 38, and (his wife), both of Toronto, are charged with uttering a forged document, obtain credit by false pretence over $5000, fraud over $5000 and possession of property from Home Depot obtained by crime over $5000,” the release said.

Even Chief Mark Saunders tweeted about their arrests to his thousands of followers and attached their photos.