A married couple who stole mail from residences and post offices across San Diego County, then used financial information acquired during the thefts to gain over $150,000 in profit, were sentenced this week to federal prison terms.
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Prosecutors said that over the course of two years, David Anthony Burge, 34, and Kyrsten Renee Bospflug, 36, used stolen U.S. Postal Service keys and counterfeit keys to steal mail from the Bonita Post Office and apartment complexes throughout the city of San Diego.
According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, they hit complexes located on Island Avenue, Georgia Court, Broadway Street, Ohio Street, 31st Street, Riviera Drive and Pacific Beach Drive, with some of the complexes targeted multiple times in short succession.
After obtaining victims’ personally identifiable information, Burge and Bospflug impersonated the victims at banks and opened accounts in the victims’ names, prosecutors said. A prosecution sentencing memorandum states they also impersonated victims at hotels and rental car agencies.
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They also nabbed credit cards and checks during the thefts, with both defendants admitting in plea agreements that they altered and deposited stolen checks into bank accounts they controlled.
Both defendants pleaded guilty in San Diego federal court earlier this year to charges of conspiracy to commit mail theft.
Burge was sentenced Monday to four years in prison, and Bospflug was sentenced to just over three years.
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