Daphne Woman Receives Prison Sentence For Fraud and Identity Theft
By: Rick McCann
Blue RAM Media/Gulf Coast News
December 20, 2025
DAPHNE, Ala. A Daphne woman is headed to federal prison after her conviction of wire fraud, mail fraud, aggravated identity theft, and violation of federal supervised release conditions, officials with the United States Attorney’s Office, Southern District of Alabama, said.
Ramie Renee Freeman, 56, of Daphne, was sentenced to 93 months, or just over seven years, in federal prison.
The case involves fraudulent documents that were submitted to an area car dealership in her attempt to receive financing of a new vehicle.
Those documents included a forged receipt for monthly social security benefits that she was not receiving, and an altered annulment order from the Circuit Court in Knox County, Tenn., that showed monthly alimony payments that also did not exist. By using the fraudulent documents, which were transmitted over the wire by the dealership, Freeman was able to get financing through a company in Texas and bought a car.
Court records also show that Freeman had also represented herself as an attorney and obtained payments for people she represented in uncontested divorces. Freeman is not a licensed lawyer according to law enforcement.
In April, she forged her “clients’” signatures and mailed bogus divorce paperwork with a check drawn off her account to the Baldwin County Courthouse in Bay Minette. That check bounced, prompting a court employee to call Freeman, who lied about being an attorney.
The documents she mailed included people’s names, addresses, dates of birth, and social security numbers, which the victims had not authorized her to send.
In May, federal agents searched Freeman’s apartment in Daphne and found the car she had bought with fraudulent documents, as well as documentation related to Freeman’s fraudulent activity.
When questioned, Freeman, who had already been convicted of fraud, told authorities she had gone back to fraud because, as a convicted felon, she had difficulty finding legitimate work.
Authorities say that while committing these crimes, she was already on supervised probation on other fraud charges. She also had prior federal fraud convictions in New Hampshire from 2009 and 2011, and multiple fraud convictions in several New Hampshire state courts.
In addition to the 93 months in prison, which includes 57 months for her current convictions and 36 months for violating her supervised release, she is also ordered to serve a three-year term of supervised release. The first six months of that supervised release will be served at a halfway house.
Additionally, during her supervised release, she will have to submit to drug testing and mental health treatment. She was not fined but was ordered to pay $300 in special assessments and $3,800 in victim restitution.
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