Gwynn Morrison, Hawaii woman accused of stealing dead baby’s ID, ordered to stay in prison

A girl accused together with her husband of residing in Hawaii below the stolen identities of useless infants will stay behind bars pending their trial, a U.S. Justice of the Peace choose dominated Wednesday.

In response to prosecutors, Walter Glenn Primrose and Gwynn Darle Morrison are the actual names of the couple who’ve been fraudulently residing for many years below the stolen identities of Bobby Edward Fort and Julie Lyn Montague. Prosecutors say Primrose spent greater than 20 years within the Coast Guard as Bobby Fort, the place he obtained secret-level safety clearance. After retiring in 2016, he used the key clearance for a job as a U.S. protection contractor, prosecutors stated.

There isn’t a indication in court docket paperwork why the couple in 1987 assumed the identities of deceased youngsters, who would have been greater than a decade youthful than them.

Earlier rulings have stored them detained.              

At a listening to Wednesday asking a choose to launch the spouse, she recognized herself as “Lyn Montague.”

“I perceive the court docket’s concern – the allegation is my shopper has used a false and fraudulent identify for nearly her complete life and we can’t confirm who she is,” her legal professional Megan Kau stated.

Kau stated she isn’t accused of committing against the law utilizing an allegedly stolen id.

As Kau’s shopper was led out of the courtroom after U.S. Justice of the Peace Choose Kenneth Mansfield’s ruling, she stated, “As anticipated.” She referred to the state of affairs as, “this complete idiotic factor.”

A listening to for the same request by her husband hasn’t been scheduled. He has a brand new legal professional who stated Tuesday that he will not be prepared in time for the couple’s Could 22 trial date. The newly appointed lawyer, Marc Victor, stated he does not suppose he shall be prepared anytime this yr.

Kau stated she is considering requesting a separate trial from her shopper’s husband.

There was no point out in court docket Wednesday of Russian spy intrigue prosecutors launched when the couple had been arrested final yr.

A search of the couple’s residence in Kapolei, a Honolulu suburb, turned up Polaroids of them sporting jackets that seem like genuine KGB uniforms, an invisible ink equipment, paperwork with coded language and maps exhibiting army bases, prosecutors stated on the time.

However prosecutors final month requested that jurors not hear in regards to the uniforms, and a choose final week agreed.

The couple have pleaded not responsible to conspiracy, false assertion in a passport utility and aggravated id theft.

In response to a prison grievance obtained by Hawaii Information Now, Primrose was allegedly issued a complete of 5 U.S. passports below the id of Bobby Fort. Morrison was issued a complete of three U.S. passports below the identify of Julie Montague, the grievance says.  

In a court docket submitting final yr, prosecutors launched particulars from a small portion of what they stated is Morrison’s journal, Hawaii Information Now reported.

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