A repeat offender with prior convictions for forgery and identity theft pleaded guilty Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Seattle to two counts of possession of stolen mail, one count of access device fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft.
Bobbie Denise Catton and her cohorts stole large volumes of mail between March 2013 and January 2014 from homes and apartment complexes throughout King County, according to court records.
The 50-year-old woman faces a mandatory minimum of two years in prison for aggravated identity theft when she is sentenced later this year, according to a U.S. Attorney’s Office media release. That sentence will run consecutive to any other prison time imposed on the other charges.
Catton and others used stolen checks, credit and debit card information and identifying documents to commit various types of fraud. When arrested by a King County Sheriff’s Office deputy following a traffic stop last January, Catton had dozens of credit/debit cards and bank statements in others’ names in her possession, along with financial and identifying information for hundreds of others.
Catton was previously prosecuted federally in 2002 for identity fraud and was sentenced to 33 months in prison. She has multiple state convictions for, among other things, forgery and possession of stolen property.
The King County Sheriff’s Office and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service investigated the case.
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