An 87-year-old Gwinnett County woman and her husband have been arrested in a case of identity theft, accused of pocketing more than $1 million in her deceased mother’s pension payments for over a decade, according to arrest warrants.
Mary Ann Arceneaux, 87, and Ernest Arceneaux, 89, of Snellville were charged with identity theft fraud and theft by deception after an investigation by the Gwinnett County Police Department’s Financial Electronic Crimes Unit.
According to arrest warrants issued Dec. 10, Arceneaux’s mother had been a California teacher who moved to Georgia after retiring in 1991. The mother died in June 2010, but authorities allege the Arceneaux couple never told the California State Teachers’ Retirement System of her mother’s death then doctored documents to give the appearance she was still alive…