December 6, 2007
SnoHo Grad Is 1/2 Of a White-Collar Bonnie & Clyde
Here are things you don't want cops to find when they search your apartment:
Four computers, two printers, a scanner and an industrial machine that makes identity cards...$17,500 in cash, dozens of credit cards and fake driver's licenses, and keys to unlock many of the apartments and mailboxes in [your] upscale apartment building...a book titled "The Art of Cheating: A Nasty Little Book for Tricky Little Schemers and Their Hapless Victims," as well as a newspaper article on "How to Spot Fake IDs."So what a stroke of bad luck for Snohomish High grad Edward Anderton, 25, and his live-in girlfriend Jocelyn Kirsch, 22. The above items are exactly what cops found when they searched the couple's Philadelphia apartment, suspecting that they were involved in an identity theft and forgery scheme.
The pair did not meet a fiery end like the Bonnie & Clyde of the 1930s, but rather went to the pokey, and then out on bail.
In interviews the Times conducted with former teachers and friends, Anderton comes off as a bit of a slimeball.
"He considered making a lot of money part of success," says former classmate Erica Chandler.
Kirsch, who we imagine lured Anderton into this scheme, a la Linda Fiorentino in The Last Seduction (or at least, after seeing the above picture, that's what we will imagine later, this evening, when we're alone) already has her own Facebook cult [HT: The Big Blog].
"They were two young people that were given many gifts in life," a Philly cop told the Times, probably with an awesome accent. "And the very best thing they could do was victimize other people."
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