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Bonnie and Clyde face the music
A SCHOOL golden couple who made headlines by cracking into their neighbours’ PCs and stealing personal data to go on swanky holidays have been sentenced to five years porridge.
Jocelyn Kirsch, a former Drexel University student, and then-boyfriend Edward Anderton used the money for expensive salon visits, exotic vacations and fancy dinners. They have also been ordered to pay more than $100,000 in restitution.
Normally they would have gone down for 70 months, but US District Judge Eduardo C. Robreno credited Kirsch for her apparent remorse and for her July 14 guilty plea to aggravated identity theft and other counts.
Between 2006 and 2007 Kirsch, and Anderton nicked the identities of friends and neighbours in the Philadelphia area to net more than $116,000 in goods and services.
They were caught when a cheque for Kirsch's $2,250 hair extension job had bounced and a neighbour of the couple told coppers that a package she did not order had been sent to her.
The pair were seen as a glamour couple at school who, with really rich parents, really could do whatever they wanted.
Perhaps the biggest kicker in the case was when coppers released pictures of the couple holidaying with the stolen goods. Kirsch looked quite good in a swimsuit leading to the press calling the pair Bonnie and Clyde. µ
L’Inq
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5 words explains it all, KARMA. Ironic to say that they had the time of their lives, travel around the world, eat fancy food and exotic hairdo. All at the expense of their friendly neighbors. How stupid can you be, honestly? Tho shall not steal from your neighbors, so much for Sunday school. Well, if I was them, I would have invested all that money in Google stock, or platinum or even brought some risky long term bonds. Go in style they say, and style is what you finally get in jail.
Well, with friends like that, who needs enemies ?
Anyway, methinks she'll have a much greater need of a $2000 makeover when she gets out then when she had it done.
If they had robbed at least 4 or 5 neighborhoods worth, they would have be given community service for a cut of the profits. If they made over 1.5 million they would have got off with a fine. Which, of course, would go directly to the prosecutor's and municipal's new private golf fund.

Silly people, if your going to rob people, you have to do it on a large scale to garner the admonition and respectful approval of your fellow legalites and polimagicians.