A Sacramento woman pleaded guilty today in federal court to four counts of bank fraud and a single count of possessing stolen mail.
According to the plea agreement, Polly Ann Conner Bautista, 54, in 2008 took over the identity of postal customers that she found in stolen U.S. mail she had obtained. She used the false identities to obtain money, goods and services by fraud.
In the fall and winter of 2008, Bautista posed as other people to negotiate stolen checks with associated stolen identification information at numerous Sacramento County banks and businesses, according to a federal Department of Justice news release. On Dec. 12, 2008, law enforcement officers searched her residence and found a cache of stolen financial instruments, including checks, credit card account numbers and victims' personal identification information. They also found stolen U.S. mail belonging to further victims.
Bautista is scheduled to be sentenced Jan. 26 by U.S. District Court Judge Kimberly J. Mueller.
The case resulted from an investigation by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service with the cooperation of the Sacramento Police Department and Sacramento County Sheriff's Office.
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