Raleigh, Dec 9 (AP) A North Carolina woman has been sentenced to more than two years in prison for impersonating two people by illegally accessing a state agency's computers, according to a federal prosecutor's office.

In August, Melanie Alecia Ruona, 34, of Winston-Salem pleaded guilty to two counts of a six-count indictment charging her with aggravated identity theft and mail fraud, according to a news release from the US Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina.

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In addition to the 28-month sentence she received on Wednesday, Ruona was given two years supervised release and ordered to pay $7,005 in restitution.

Court documents and information presented in court showed Ruona and others worked a scheme to illegally access N.C. Division of Motor Vehicles computers and steal identities.

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Two identities were stolen, according to prosecutors.

Rouna used one of them to open a credit account at a department store and purchased $4,000 in goods.

The news release says Rouna also applied for unemployment benefits in the identity of the victim for $2,934.

In October 2020, state and federal authorities identified a scheme in which multiple people assumed identities and committed various crimes.

Rouna is the fourth defendant to be prosecuted based on similar schemes to illegally access NCDMV computers. (AP)

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