DETROIT (AP) β A Detroit-area impostor who inspired an award-winning film about being someone else has pleaded guilty to identity theft after he was caught with records from a U.S. Military Academy graduate.
William Street Jr. likely faces two years or more in prison. He pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court in Detroit.
Police investigating bad checks caught Street in February with a doctor’s coat bearing the name of William Benn Stratton. Stratton works for a Maryland defense contractor and is a graduate of West Point. He is not a doctor.
Street has convictions going back decades and even fooled the Detroit Tigers into giving him a tryout in the 1970s.
He was the inspiration for the movie “Chameleon Street,” which won a major prize at the 1990 Sundance Film Festival.
