A National Gang of ID Thieves Started Right Here in South Florida - Miami New Times
The light-colored SUV was already parked when Keri Street wheeled into a neighboring spot at the KinderCare in a Seattle suburb. As Street gathered up her two kids, she ran a suspicious eye over the vehicle. The guy behind the wheel was cocooned in a baggy gray hoodie. Who goes to a daycare and doesn't have car seats. But Street was in a rush that morning in September 2013. She collected her kids, grabbed her keys and phone, and scurried into the mint-shingled building. While at work as a service department manager for a security company, Street realized she didn't have her purse. But when she got home, she couldn't find it. Street pulled up her banking activity online. She rewound a play-by-play of her busy morning. "I'd left the purse in the car and didn't lock it," she explains today. "Shame on me. ". Street wasn't alone. About an hour and a half south, purses were plucked from cars at the Gig Harbor Academy, a posh private elementary school on ten acres of wilderness. Although it would take police months to puzzle out the situation, eventually they'd trace the crime wave back to a man and woman running a rental car up and down Interstate 5, the highway sewing Seattle to Tacoma. Source: www.miaminewtimes.com
