For 10 years, Darryl S. Paxton Jr., assumed a fictitious identity and submitted falsified loan applications as part of a $1.8 million mortgage fraud scheme in Maryland, according to court records.

Paxton — who also goes by the name David Sosa — has been indicted by a grand jury in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt. He is charged with 15 counts, including wire fraud, money laundering and fraudulent use of a Social Security number.