Bizarre Identity Theft Bust Made in Hawaii

By Tim Binnall

In a bizarre story out of Hawaii, authorities arrested a couple who had been living under stolen identities for decades and there is some suspicion that they may have been Russian spies. The curious case reportedly centers around Walter Glenn Primrose and Gwynn Darle Morrison, who reside in the community of Kapolei on the island of Oʻahu. According to prosecutors, the pair had been going by the names Bobby Fort and Julie Montague for quite some time, purchasing a pair of homes, and, in Primrose's case, even getting a pilot's license. The couple were taken into custody earlier this month and charged with conspiracy, making a false statement in a passport application and aggravated identity theft, though the already odd tale only got weirder from there.

According to prosecutors, a search of the couple's residence led to the discovery of coded documents, invisible ink, and old pictures of the pair wearing KGB uniforms (seen above). While the duo's defense attorney insists that the items are innocuous in nature, authorities are understandably suspicious, especially in light of a strange exchange that occurred when the pair were taken into custody. While waiting to be questioned by investigators, Morrison said "we have the protocols" to Primrose, which prosecutors interpreted to be in reference to steps that foreign intelligence agencies "teach their agents and those recruited by their agents to follow if they are ever apprehended."

An additional layer of intrigue came about by way of a letter found during the search of their home in which an individual writing to Primrose speculates that he is in the CIA or a Bolivian terrorist. The couple's defense attorney seized upon the almost absurd nature of the case by declaring that "it is simply not feasible that Mr. Primrose is a member of the CIA, a Bolivian terrorist, and a Russian spy, all the while working at both the U.S. Coast Guard and a private employer and living a relatively low-key lifestyle in Kapolei for the last twenty years" and challenged the federal government to "put its money where its mouth is" when it comes to "claims that Mr. Primrose is a Russian spy.”