ID-Scam College Student Gets 5 Years

Woman And Boyfriend Brazenly Stole Identities Of Neighbors To Pay For Lavish Lifestyle

(CBS/ AP)  A college student who with her boyfriend stole the identities of friends and neighbors was sentenced Friday to five years in prison and ordered to pay more than $100,000 in restitution.

Jocelyn Kirsch, a former Drexel University student, and then-boyfriend Edward Anderton used the money for expensive salon visits, exotic vacations and fancy dinners.

Federal guidelines called for a prison sentence of 70 months, but U.S. District Judge Eduardo C. Robreno credited Kirsch for her apparent remorse and for her July 14 guilty plea to aggravated identity theft and other counts.

Kirsch, 23, and Anderton acknowledged stealing the identities of friends and neighbors in the Philadelphia area in 2006 and 2007 to net more than $116,000 in goods and services.

The scheme unraveled when an employee at an upscale salon told police that a check for Kirsch's $2,250 hair extension job had bounced. About the same time, a neighbor of the couple told police a package she did not order had been sent to her.

Police released photos showing the two posing in matching red swimsuits by a luxury hotel pool and kissing near the Eiffel Tower.

Anderton, a 25-year-old University of Pennsylvania graduate originally from Everett, Wash., is to be sentenced Tuesday.

Kirsch's defense attorney, Ronald Greenblatt, sought a lesser sentence, arguing that Kirsch suffers from mental problems that contributed to her criminal actions, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.

"She is so clearly mentally ill," said Greenblatt, telling the judge that Kirsch made up stories about herself and her background in a manifestation of serious psychological problems.

She told people that she had violet eyes because she was of Lithuanian descent, when she was really wearing purple contacts, he said. She claimed she was an Olympic-class pole vaulter, when she was not, the Inquirer reported.

[hologram5]

send them to the deepest darkest dungeon we can find and let them rot...

[smurfcrusher]

"She claimed she was an Olympic-class pole vaulter, when she was not, the Inquirer reported. "

Holy Euphemisms Batman!

[czmdm]

" but U.S. District Judge Eduardo C. Robreno credited Kirsch for her apparent remorse"

That''s double speak for the idiot judge thinking that this scumbag bimbo was cute. When are we going to start allplying the same laws to cute women as we do everyone else? Even with *** offenders...only the homely women go to jail. The judges figure that with the cute ones the little boys must have likes it (as if a young woman can''t enjoy ***).

[Snerdguy]

A young preppy. He''ll need to learn fast to leave the soap when he drops it on the shower room floor.

Well, thankfully they only stole $116,000. We''re
fortunate that they weren''t investment bankers or
other financial experts or it could have been 116 Bll.
Then, we would have had to pay them millions in
Golden Parachutes as well. We got off easy on this
one!

[octavianfdlr]

That''s right, newster1. The identity thieves were caught, in part, because a neighbor reported a suspicious package to the police; reporting suspicious activity is a responsible thing to do.

[nothappyatall]

sentenced Friday to five years in prison and ordered to pay more than $100,000 in restitution. "

Good luck ever seeing a dime of that, after her 5 years in jail she comes out broke, homeless and jobless.

" a neighbor of the couple told police a package she did not order had been sent to her."

Someone calls the COPS because a package she didn''t order was delivered to her address???

[jf94066]

Make sure she (and him) work from sunup to sundown 7 days a week. Like in the good ''ol days! I don''t want MY tax dollars paying to upkeep them during their stay. Make them work for it! Mentally ill my *ss!

[pollroller1]

She wanted it all and she wanted then.

[memerider]

So being a criminal is a mental illness?! I''ve heard it all now.

[downsteamjim]

They should have said they worked for ACORN. Then all would have been forgiven.

[tipsyinct]

"She claimed she was an Olympic-class pole vaulter, when she was not, the Inquirer reported."

As an olympic-class pole vaulter myself, i take serious offense at anyone who pretends to be one.

[eggy1620]

So lying and making up stories is a sign of serious mental illness? That should condemn about half this country to the looney bin.

[lochlan-2009]

"Friday to five years in prison and ordered to pay more than $100,000 in restitution"

See they didn''t steel enough if they stole millions they''d only have to repay about 10% and still get the five years.
If they stole billions, than they wouldn''t have to repay any of it, and someone else would take the fall for a few million to sit in jail for a couple of years.
If they stole trillions, than they could actually ask the government to give them a trillion or so more from the tax payers, and no one has to go to jail.