An Idaho Wife Never Had a Passport. Police Say a Stranger Used One to Take Thousands From Her Home Equity

An Idaho couple discovered that someone had withdrawn money against their home equity after a woman allegedly walked into a credit union with a passport in the wife’s name.

Kimberly Irene Schwartfigure, 50, faces felony burglary and grand theft charges in Bannock County over the March 2026 transactions at Lookout Credit Union in Pocatello. The charges concern withdrawals from the couple’s credit line, with investigators alleging that the visitor used the wife’s identity to satisfy the credit union’s security checks.

The case widened when employees at another Idaho bank questioned a woman trying to access a home equity account the following day. Schwartfigure was arrested there, while Pocatello investigators later used surveillance footage to connect her to the earlier withdrawals…

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