Philadelphia police began to unravel the finely tuned scheme over the weekend.
Kirsch, 22, and Anderton, 25, both of Chestnut Street near 18th, were arrested Friday on charges of stealing some of their neighbors' identities and establishing credit lines in their names.
The duo also burglarized at least two of their neighbors' apartments and, police allege, they then faked Georgia state driver's licenses so they could open credit card accounts.
Anderton and Kirsch were charged with identity theft, conspiracy, unlawful use of a computer, forgery and a slew of other offenses, said Lt. George Ondrejka of Central Detectives.
Kirsch, a Drexel University student who is a former member of the sorority Delta Phi Epsilon, according to a Drexel Web site, and Anderton, a 2005 University of Pennsylvania graduate who was fired from his analyst job with Lubert-Adler Real Estate Funds, had just tried to pick up a lingerie package they had ordered from England.
In one instance, Kirsch allegedly tried to pass a phony $1,700 check to pay for hair extensions at Giovanni & Pileggi salon, at 17th and Walnut streets.
Cops said the couple trotted the globe, furnished their apartment and bought the latest in electronics with their newfound credit.
They traveled to Paris, Hawaii, and Turks & Caicos Islands, Ondrejka said.
Kirsch's walk-in closet was bursting with so many designer clothes, shoes and handbags that cops couldn't step inside, said a police source, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
The couple's living room was filled with "a lot of new stuff, Ikea, electronics," Ondrejka said.
Kirsch and Anderton, who moved into the two-bedroom, $3,000-a-month rental in June, were described by a police source as the "Bonnie and Clyde of ID fraud."
"There is no physical means of support," the source said.
