SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced in a media release Monday that two Buffalo, Mo., women have been sentenced in federal court for stealing the identities of 20 victims to obtain unauthorized credit cards in the victims’ names.

Stacy R. Rosa, also known as Stacy R. Webbe, 40, of Buffalo, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge M. Douglas Harpool to two years in federal prison without parole.

In a separate but related case, Kelly Marie Lockhart, also known as Kelly Marie Wilson, 35, of Buffalo, was sentenced on Nov. 5, 2014, to two years in federal prison without parole.

Both Rosa and Lockhart pleaded guilty to aggravated identity theft. They admitted that they aided and abetted one another to obtain unauthorized credit cards by stealing the identity information of approximately 20 victims between April 12, 2012, and Jan. 17, 2014. They used the credit cards to make approximately $32,789 in purchases.

Rosa and Lockhart used stolen personally identifying information (including individuals’ names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers and bank account information) to gain access to the identity theft victims’ bank and credit card accounts via telephone and the Internet, and to open new credit card accounts. Rosa and Lockhart obtained unauthorized credit cards issued in the victims’ names, and utilized those cards to purchase merchandise and gift cards and to obtain cash advances.

Their plea agreements each cite a specific example in which they impersonated a North Carolina victim during a telephone call and obtained a secondary credit card in the name of Kelly Wilson (Lockhart’s alias). On April 22, 2013, Lockhart used the unauthorized credit card in Bolivar, Mo., to obtain a $3,600 cash advance. On April 30, 2013, Rosa used the unauthorized credit card to pay $96 for her visit to a hair salon in Buffalo.

These cases were prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Steven M. Mohlhenrich. They were investigated by the U.S. Secret Service, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, the Buffalo, Mo., Police Department and the Bolivar, Mo., Police Department.