A Roslyn woman on Friday was sentenced to state prison stemming from charges she violated her probation of a previous conviction by using a stolen identity to purchase two Nissan vehicles.
Cynthia Sibert, 24, will serve 1-3 years for identity theft and an additional year for violating her probation following her sentencing by Judge Philip Grella in Nassau County Court.
The sentences will run concurrently, prosecutors said.
The case was prosecuted by attorneys from Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice’s office, following an investigation by the state Department of Taxation.
“This defendant blatantly and repeatedly demonstrated a total disrespect for the law by acting as a predator of vulnerable New Yorkers,” said state Taxation and Finance Commissioner Thomas H. Mattox in a statement. “I thank District Attorney Rice and her team for their vigilance in prosecuting such scammers who steal the identities of innocent people to enrich their lives.”
Sibert had been on probation for a June 2012 conviction for charges of identity theft, grand larceny and 28 other counts, but was arrested on new charges of second and third-degree grand larceny and second-degree identity theft after prosecutors learned she used one of the stolen identifications to buy two cars.
She pleaded guilty to second-degree identity theft on Sept. 12, 2013.
Sibert and co-defendant Susan Pemberton, Sibert’s aunt, were previously convicted for using stolen identification stolen to file more than 250 fraudulent tax returns.
Sibert also stole the identities from the elderly people she served as a home health care aid to open credit cards in their names.
For these crimes, Sibert was sentenced to five years probation, three months of jail time and to pay $61,089 in restitution.
Pemberton, who also uses the last name Williams, will be sentenced on Dec. 6 for her involvement in the identity theft scam. Pemberton is a Rockville Centre resident.
