Gilroy
– Frederick McGrew was at it again.
The man convicted of identity theft last year after he posed as
a former NFL star to get a football coaching job at Gavilan College
continued to use the name
”
Lawrence McGrew
”
as his own.
McGrew pleaded guilty to violating his probation and was
sentenced Wednesday to a year in county jail.
By Lori Stuenkel
Gilroy – Frederick McGrew was at it again.
The man convicted of identity theft last year after he posed as a former NFL star to get a football coaching job at Gavilan College continued to use the name “Lawrence McGrew” as his own.
McGrew pleaded guilty to violating his probation and was sentenced Wednesday to a year in county jail.
“He was continuing to use the name, despite the fact that he had specific probation orders not to,” said Sylvia Seidel, an assistant district attorney with Santa Clara County. “He used it for a job application, he used it to open a checking account, he used it on a rental application, he was representing himself at work as Lawrence McGrew.”
He was not, however, representing himself as the former professional football player – who died in April – to get a coaching job, as he did at Gavilan College last fall. He was instead working at bars.
McGrew, who has been in custody since Sept. 6, will likely receive some credit on his jail time, and will serve about nine months, Seidel said. His probation will last until April 1, 2008.
In February, McGrew began serving three years of probation and serving 160 hours of community service stemming from his December 2003 no contest plea to felony false impersonation. The district attorney’s office and Probation Department staff had asked for a stiffer sentence because McGrew continued lying to them on different occasions.
Sometime after starting his probation, McGrew got a bank account, rental housing, and a job at an Irish pub in Sunnyvale using Lawrence “Larry” McGrew’s name. He did not, as last year, use a false social security number.
“One of the circumstances of violating parole was that he had left our county without permission,” Seidel said. “He had gone to Sacramento to apply for and get a job (at another bar) without telling his probation officer.”
