Two Bremerton women face 14 federal charges in connection with a “massive” identity theft scheme involving over 270 victims, acting U.S. Attorney Teal Luthy Miller announced Tuesday.
Investigators believe Heather Marquis, 36, and Emily Vranic, 33, defrauded at least 278 people across Kitsap and Mason counties from April 2019 to November 2024. Authorities say they stole about $620,000.
Marquis and Vranic used mail and personal documents to access credit cards and online bank accounts, according to a news release.
“The pair would have documents related to their activities mailed to a third-party victim’s address, where they would intercept the mail again,” the release reads. “Once they had fully taken over a stolen identity, statements and other records were mailed directly to their own Bremerton address.”
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Meta has already sent her a job offer. /s
They defrauded banks, not the cardholders. “Identity theft” is a BS shifting of the responsibility from the bank to a third party who often bears no responsibility for the bank being duped.
They stole people’s identity, so yes, while they duped the banks, they were stealing people’s mail at the same time.
