FERNDALE, Wash. (AP) — The Whatcom County sheriff says a woman disguised as her dead mother was arrested when she tried to complete paperwork for a bank account she was opening in her mother’s name.
Sheriff Bill Elfo says 59-year-old Loewen B. Craft was wearing a gray wig and makeup to make her look older when she arrived Wednesday at a credit union branch in Ferndale, Wash.
The sheriff alleges Craft has fraudulently collected more than $145,000 in pension benefits since her mother, Betty Becker, died in 2007.
Detective John Allgire was waiting at the credit union. He arrested Craft for investigation of first-degree identity theft, criminal impersonation and multiple counts of forgery.
