William Woods, 55, was pronounced 'factually innocent' Thursday. He spent two years in custody, including five months in a mental hospital, after alleging that his identity had been stolen. Former coworker Matthew Keirans assumed the man's identity more than 30 years ago, even giving his son Woods' last name
Matthew David Keirans, 58, stole William Woods', 55, identity in 1988. He used his name for 30 years, starting a successful career and having a child. Keirans was caught in 2023 and now faces up to 32 years in prison
Nobody believed William Woods. They didn't believe someone had used his Social Security number to run up hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt. They didn't believe the Social Security card he himself carried was real. Above all, no one believed he really was William Woods. He was arrested for unauthorized use of personal information and spent nearly two years locked up awaiting trial, including more than 100 days in a psychiatric hospital. Woods eventually pleaded no contest in a Los Angeles...
A Sarnia man who recently served about two years in jail for a pair of similar incidents involving weapons at the city’s hospital is back in jail on a slew of new weapons charges. Bradley Kelly, 24, sent Bluewater Health staff into mass panic when he stormed into the Sarnia hospital’s emergency department with what […]