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Club goers were ID theft targets

CHICAGO, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- Police found more than 80 stolen and altered driver's licenses in a raid on a Chicago ring suspected of targeting nightclub goers for identity theft.

Driver's licenses from Illinois, Michigan and Ohio were recovered, in addition to wallets, credit cards, drugs, a digital scanner and a laminating machine, a cable news outlet CLTV said.

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About 100 victims were apparently patrons of trendy clubs in downtown Chicago and on the city's fashionable North Side.

Identify thefts may have cost them $100,000, investigators said.

Officers armed with a search warrant arrested three people at a South Side residence and seized three packets of heroin.

In recent years, several popular Chicago clubs have used a digital scanner to check the age of patrons as they enter by scanning their driver's licenses. One club sends out birthday cards, but most have not said what happens to the information collected.

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