Originally published Friday, October 17, 2008 at 12:00 AM

Student swindler sentenced in Pa. to 5 years

PHILADELPHIA — A former Philadelphia college student has been sentenced to five years in prison and ordered to pay more than $100,000 in restitution in a brazen identity-theft scheme. Her boyfriend and partner in crime from Everett is to be sentenced for fraud Tuesday.

By The Associated Press

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Jocelyn Kirsch is a former Drexel University student.

Edward Anderton is a Snohomish High grad.

PHILADELPHIA — A former Philadelphia college student has been sentenced to five years in prison and ordered to pay more than $100,000 in restitution in a brazen identity-theft scheme.

Jocelyn Kirsch, a former Drexel University student, and her boyfriend used the money for expensive salon visits, exotic vacations and fancy dinners. She pleaded guilty July 14 to aggravated identity theft and other federal crimes.

Travel photos show the 22-year-old Kirsch and Edward Anderton, a 25-year-old University of Pennsylvania graduate originally from Everett, posing in matching red swimsuits by a luxury hotel pool and kissing near the Eiffel Tower.

Kirsch and Anderton acknowledge stealing the identities of friends and neighbors in 2006 and 2007 to net more than $116,000 in goods and services.

Anderton is to be sentenced Tuesday.

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