Pennsylvania Woman Gets Prison For $194K I.D. Theft; Damage Included Pocketing Mortgage Proceeds On Victims' Home

In Pennsylvania, the Bucks County Courier Times reports:

• A Hulmeville woman who systematically stole more than $194,000 from a hearing impaired Upper Southampton couple in an identity theft scam was sentenced Tuesday to 18 months to 10 years in a state prison. Nancy Hellyer, 41, of Main Street told Bucks County Judge Albert Cepparulo that she learned a lot from her arrest and hoped, as part of a community service sentence, to help others by leading seminars on how to avoid con artists like herself. Cepparulo told her to forget it.

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• Without the couple's permission, she changed the mailing address on some of their credit cards, added her name to the accounts and charged more than $100,000 in goods, services and cash advances. She also opened a second mortgage on their Charles Street home, acting as the couple's “agent” when speaking to bank officials.

For more, see Hulmeville woman sentenced in $194,000 identity theft scam.