Woman gets almost three years in ID theft
Published 10:56 pm Wednesday, August 29, 2007
SEATTLE An Everett woman was sentenced to nearly three years in federal prison and will be required to pay $7,500 in restitution for convictions related to identity theft after she rummaged through trash bins to obtain people’s personal information.
Sheree M. Carsen, 32, and an accomplice used documents taken from trash cans at copy center shops and other locations to open credit accounts in other people’s names.
U.S. District Judge Ronald Leighton imposed the required two-year sentence for aggravated identity theft and an additional nine months for the crime of access device fraud, the U.S. attorney’s office said.
According to court records, Carsen and the other person traveled between Everett and Vancouver, Wash., in August and September of 2006.
They used bogus credit cards taken out in the name of a college student after obtaining personal information by going through the trash at a copying store, documents said.
The two were arrested in Clark County, and Carsen was released on bond pending trial there. In January, Everett police arrested her. The arresting officers found numerous pieces of fake identification, receipts and fraudulently obtained credit cards, documents said.
