[1] Street, also known as "Chameleon" and "The Great Impersonator", was arrested in 2015 on a warrant issued in 2013 when he allegedly bought a $7,000 Rolex using a check which bounced and on which he wrote a false home address and phone number.
[2] Street dressed as a woman for some of the false identities he assumed, prompting Magistrate Judge Elizabeth Stafford to comment "He has proved himself to be extraordinarily resourceful in perpetuating his schemes," before denying bail.
Staff at the Detroit Human Rights Department where he posed as an attorney volunteer found him skillful enough that "if he ever straightens out, we wouldn't mind having him back.
Over the preceding 46 years he had "racked up 17 criminal convictions and six arrests before pulling off this latest stunt: stealing the identity of a defense contractor who had graduated from Duke University and the U.S. Military Academy.
[7] Street has been described as "a man of high intelligence but little formal education" and is alleged to have worked as a surgeon at a Chicago hospital under an assumed name and to have performed 36 hysterectomies before being discovered.