A central Missouri woman has admitted in federal court that she plotted to use stolen mail and identities to cash bogus checks at banks.
Twenty-seven-year-old Chrystal Bernstein of Osage Beach pleaded guilty Tuesday to single counts of bank fraud and aggravated identity theft.
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Prosecutors say Bernstein obtained stolen mail and used stolen identities to cash and deposit the checks at banks in Boone and Camden counties from December 2016 to mid-February of this year.
Authorities say the victims sustained a total loss of roughly $14,000.
When arrested in February, authorities say Bernstein had a driver’s license, Social Security card and credit card bearing another person’s name. After she was arrested again two weeks later, searchers found checks and money orders stolen from two additional victims.
