Identity theft is still considered the most prevalent white-collar crime in America. It also reigns as the leading scam in the Mid-South.

As baby-boomers get older, identity theft will only flex its muscles even more on the elderly. It leads my list of the most common scams targeting seniors in the Mid-South:

* ID THEFT.  These are the methods thieves are most commonly using to either steal seniors' financial identities or get into their accounts:

Memphis police have some good news to report when it comes to burglaries.

In just one week, burglaries of homes in the Raleigh Station precinct DROPPED 45% this week (July 11th) compared to last week (July 4th).

In that same week, business burglaries dropped 75%.

Officers also made nine arrests to solve eleven cases.

A Memphis woman is behind bars after officers say she was caught trying to sell hundreds of feet of stolen telephone wire to a Crittenden County scrap yard.

An AT&T representative called police in May to report that about $7,500 worth of copper, telephone wire had been snatched from the 900 block of Barton. The worker told officers that the repair would cost the company about $10,000 in labor.

A few days later, an Arkansas recycling company alerted police after a woman tried to sell more than 200 pounds of telephone wire.

The woman was taken into custody by the Crittenden County Sheriff’s Office and later charged in Memphis.

Rita Cohn, 35, is accused of multiple crimes including destroying a utility line, theft and vandalism.