Two Bremerton women were sentenced for a long-running bank fraud scheme in which they stole personal information from more than 250 people.
Emily Vranic, 34, was sentenced to three years in prison, and her co-defendant, Heather Marquis, 37, was sentenced to 31 months in prison, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Thursday.
Both women were also sentenced to three years of supervised release following their release from custody. Both were arrested on a federal complaint in April 2025.
Scheme involved stolen mail, fraudulent credit cards, and bank account takeovers
From around 2021 until their arrests in November 2024, Vranic and Marquis defrauded victims and financial institutions in various ways. The two primarily used stolen mail from victims to activate credit cards, open new lines of credit, or gain wholesale access to online bank accounts using personal information, according to records filed in the case…