A former District of Columbia resident with a propensity for violence toward women was sentenced to seven years in prison for obtaining and using the identity of a Maryland woman. Thirty-three-year-old James T. Dillard’s theft of cell phone service in the woman’s name came to the attention of D.C. detectives in 2009 investigating a sexual assault case from 2004.

Dillard, 33, was sentenced in D.C. Superior Court last week, after being convicted in September 2010 of first-degree identity theft and first-degree theft.