BREMERTON, Wash. — Two women from Bremerton face federal charges alleging they stole mail and used it to infiltrate the personal and financial lives of hundreds of people in Washington.
In total, the U.S. Attorney’s office alleges 278 victims lost a combined $620,000 over the five-year fraud of Heather Marquis, 36, and her fiancée, 33-year-old Emily Vranic.
“The two of them were entirely subsisting their lifestyle on identity theft, bank fraud, wire fraud,” said Assistant United States Attorney Victoria Cantore. “They would intercept the mail, take out some personally identifying documents, and use those to then create profiles about their victims.”…