 Authorities in the Atlanta area discovered Cox 's activities , and eventually his identity . On August 6 , 2004 , police issued arrest warrants for conspiracy , stolen identification documents , mail and wire fraud , money laundering and social security number fraud . News broadcasts showed photos of Cox and Hauck and requested that viewers provide any information pertaining to their whereabouts . By spring 2005 , the couple had eluded authorities for eighteen months , using dozens of identities , including ones stolen from former co @-@ workers and acquaintances . Cox also stole identities from the homeless by posing as a survey – taking Red Cross worker to acquire their social security numbers . At this point , due to remorse and anxiety , Arnold called the FBI and confessed . She was sentenced to two years in prison for numerous offenses , including conspiracy to commit bank fraud and identity theft . Arnold was also ordered to pay $ 300 @,@ 000 dollars in restitution to her victims . Shortly thereafter , Cox filed multiple mortgages on two houses for $ 886 @,@ 318 in Columbia , South Carolina in less than a week . An abstractor noticed this , and a fraud alert was issued on one of Cox 's money laundering bank accounts . He was arrested when he returned to the bank to make a transaction , but he told authorities his name was Gary Lee Sullivan , one of about thirty aliases Cox had at the time , and because Sullivan had no open warrants the police released him . Shortly afterwards , Cox and Hauck moved to Houston , but they separated and she remained there in hiding under an assumed name . A year later the Secret Service found Hauck and arrested her . Convicted on numerous counts , Hauck was sentenced to six years in prison , and five years of supervised release . In May 2006 , after being on the run from authorities for two and a half years , Cox was placed on the Secret Service 's Most Wanted List . 
