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Jocelyn Kirsch may be sentenced to 6 years in a Federal prison for her role in a “brazen” identity theft ring. I posted this billso.com article, Philadelphia couple stole neighbors’ identities, on 3 December 2007. She plead guilty yesterday in a Federal courtroom in Philadephia.

She and her ex-boyfriend, Edward K. Anderton, use keys to raid their neighbors’ mailboxes in the Rittenhouse Square building where they lived. 

When investigators searched the couple’s four computers, they found vacation photos, invoices and more evidence that was used against the couple:

The pair deployed an increasingly sophisticated set of schemes to obtain more than $116,000 in goods and services and tried to obtain at least another $122,000 more, prosecutors said.

Anderton had previously plead guilty, and may receive a 5 year sentence on 19 September 2008. Kirsch is scheduled for sentencing on 17 October 2008. Her punishment may be more severe than Anderton’s because she continued to steal identities while she lived in northern California with her mother. Kirsch was waiting for her Philadelphia court dates at the time. 

See this Associated Press article, Student grifter admits $116K fraud in Pa. ID theft, for more information. 

From the Honolulu Star-Bulletin comes the worst identity theft story I’ve read in a while. Marine Cpl. Daniel Alfieri has been charged in circuit court with multiple counts of credit card fraud and identity theft. According to the report, Alfieri “personally knows the four male and one female Marine [involved] and had previously deployed with them to Iraq”.

As reported on Yahoo today, a Philadelphia couple used keys to their neighbors’ apartments and mailboxes to finance a massive travel and shopping spree. Jocelyn Kirsch and Edward K. Anderton were charged last Friday with multiple counts of identity theft, fraud, and other crimes. Computer forensics experts will examine hard drives from four computers found in the apartment.

The couple was arrested after they tried to pick up a parcel they had ordered in a neighbor’s name. Police do not know how the couple obtained the keys for their Rittenhouse Square building. However, a search of the couple’s apartment yielded a wide array of evidence, including photos of their travels. Philadelphia Weekly and the Philadelphia Daily News have posted a sample photo.

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