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A U.S. defense contractor and his wife are accused of using the I.Ds of two dead Texas children for decades.
The pair who used the identities of the dead children was charged with identity theft and conspiring against the government, The Associated Press cited federal court records unsealed in Honolulu.
Walter Glenn
Primrose and Gwynn Darie Morrison, who are in their 60s, allegedly lived for
decades under the names Bobby Edward Fort and Julie Lyn Montague, respectively,
according to the Associated Press. The couple was arrested Friday in Kapolei on
the island of Oahu.
The pair is
accused of fraudulently obtaining drivers’ licenses, passports and Defense
Department credentials.
Those
documents helped Primrose get secret security clearance with the U.S. Coast
Guard and as a defense contractor, according to The Associated Press.
Old photos
show the couple wearing uniforms of the KGB, the former Russian spy agency, Assistant
U.S. Attorney Thomas Muehleck was quoted as saying in court papers, according
to The Associated Press. Faded Polaroids of each uniform were included in the motion
to have them held without bail.
Prosecutors
said the couple could flee if freed and also suggested that Primrose who was an
avionics electrical technician in the Coast Guard was highly skilled to
communicate secretly if released, according to The Associated Press.
Primrose and
Morrison were born in 1955 and attended high school together in Port Lavaca,
Texas, and then went to Stephen F. Austin University, The Associated Press
cited court papers. They married in 1980. In 1986 the coupled assumed the
identities of the dead children who were over a decade younger than them.
The couple remarried
under their assumed names in l988.
Prosecutors
charged the couple with conspiracy to commit an offence against the U.S., false
statement in passport application and aggravated identity theft.