LANSING — Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel says three people have pleaded guilty to identity theft, fraud and forgery in a more than half-a-million-dollar unclaimed property fraud scheme.

Nessel said Averill Dintaman, 46, and Daniel Nolan, 51, both from Mount Pleasant and Dwayne Johnson, 59, from St. Louis, stole the identity of the victim and forged a power of attorney document in order to steal an unclaimed property check worth $579,551.99 in 2022. She said Johnson posed as the victim in person at the Michigan Department of Treasury’s Unclaimed Property Office to get a second copy of the check.

They were originally charged in May of this year.

Accord to a November 17 release, these are the exact charges each of the defendants pleaded guilty to:

Dintaman pleaded guilty on October

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