One Tree Hill’s Skills Pleads Innocent in Fake ID Scam
It looks like some mad skillz have landed Skills in big trouble.
Antwon Tanner, One Tree Hill’s Antwon “Skills” Taylor, has pleaded not guilty in a New York federal court to participating in a Social Security scam.
The 34-year-old actor, whose credits include Coach Carter with Samuel L. Jackson and that catchy “Da Da Da” Volkswagen commercial, was busted in a sting operation and charged with selling 16 Social Security numbers and three counterfeit cards to a middleman between December 2005 and last July.
Tanner surrendered yesterday and entered his plea in Brooklyn Federal Court. He was released after posting $250,000 bail.
If convicted, he faces up to five years in prison.
The California native allegedly supplied the phony digits and cards to an unidentified contact who in turn sold them to an undercover agent with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE).
According to a two-count indictment, Tanner used made-up Social Security numbers as well as those swiped from the living and the dead, and he passed them along without ever having a face-to-face meeting with the dealer. All the cards were allegedly sent through the mail.
The feds say Tanner banked thousands of dollars over a two-and-a-half-year period.
Neither Tanner nor his lawyer answered reporters’ questions upon leaving yesterday’s hearing, and the CW has declined to address his arrest or future on One Tree Hill.
via One Tree Hill’s Skills Pleads Innocent in Fake ID Scam – E! Online.
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April 17th, 2009 at 2:09 pm
This is just terrible.
I can’t believe he would do something like this.
April 17th, 2009 at 2:15 pm
ugh, I am so disappointed in Antwon=(
April 17th, 2009 at 2:41 pm
I can they really catch him or connect him if everything was allegedly sent through the mail.
April 17th, 2009 at 3:00 pm
Guys remember he did plead INNOCENT. Let things shake out. He may be a huge sleazeball dbag or he could be wrongfully accused of a crime he did not commit. Don’t be so quick to judge.
April 17th, 2009 at 3:15 pm
he always is so nice to fans and sweet and hangs out with little jackson on set the rest of the cast loves him because hes so nice and he has children and this all doenst make sence at all why would he even need to do that..
April 17th, 2009 at 3:53 pm
Somehow I have a feeling that he might be the middleman in all of this, otherwise he wouldn’t have turned himself in willingly. Who really knows. It’s only 16 counts in 2 1/2 years. It leads me to believe that the feds are just using him to get to whoever the main person is. Or maybe he got mixed up in some bad business – thinking he was investing in something legit but turns out to be totally different… we’ll see how this plays out.
April 17th, 2009 at 5:09 pm
I really hope this isnt true… i really hope hes not involved!!! thats toooo crazy!!!