29 charges include ID theft, burglary

RALEIGH -- A Raleigh woman was being held in lieu of $5 million bail Sunday after being charged with almost 30 felonies and misdemeanors, ranging from stealing the identity of a 2-year-old girl to going on an $1,800 shopping spree with a stolen credit card at a Best Buy store.

Heather Lynn Holley, 39, formerly of Langley Circle, was scheduled to have her first court appearance Tuesday at the Wake County courthouse.

Holley faces a broad array of allegations.

She is accused of breaking into three North Raleigh homes and stealing personal checks, passports, tax records, health insurance cards and financial information. Holley is charged also with stealing a $34,000 business check and using one woman's identity to try to cash the check. In another instance, Holley is accused of using two juveniles' identities to try to obtain health insurance benefits.

Investigators charged Holley also with stealing mail, car documents and bank account information from a woman with the same first and last name as a ruse to shift blame for her criminal activities to the innocent person.

All told, Holley faces 29 felony and misdemeanor charges.

They include nine counts of identity theft, four counts of larceny, three counts of obtaining property by false pretenses, two counts of breaking and entering, and one count each of burglary and possession of burglary tools.