More Charges For Ex-Hawaii Beauty Queen

Both ends of Susan E. Shaw’s alleged double life may have caught up with her.

The former beauty queen from Hawaii already faced 122 counts of identity theft, forgery and money laundering following her arrest in May 2009. Now, according to recent reports including those in The Honolulu Advertiser and KITV.com, she’s been charged with another 18 counts after police near Los Angeles found at her home a trove of other people’s sensitive personal information.

Shaw, 35, already is in jail in Honolulu, awaiting the start of her March 10 trial. But that date could be postponed while the new charges are considered.

Shaw, who won Miss Hawaii International in 1992, is accused of stealing $160,000 from at least 11 people in a scam that lasted 16 months, KITV.com reports. Per the most recent charges, she is alleged to have “obtained personal identification of 12 Honolulu residents and obtained and used credit cards in their name,” The Honolulu Advertiser reports.

Prosecutors say she had a live-in boyfriend and two children in Honolulu, and two boyfriends in the Los Angeles area. Police there said she rented apartments in Manhattan Beach and Hermosa Beach. One of the boyfriends was a doctor, and Shaw reportedly broke it off after he started talking about marriage.

“That's what sort of led to the end of the relationship. She was very secretive. She kept her Hawaii connection more or less quiet,” Detective John McCarthy told the station last June.

Deputy Prosecutor Christopher Van Marter in Honolulu said he’ll seek a life sentence if Shaw is convicted, KITV.com reports. The accusations Shaw faces paint an allegedly disciplined and systematic scheme. Among other things, Shaw is alleged to have possessed fake identification in victims’ names, and to have “contacted the U.S. Postal Service to put a hold on the mail of her victims and requested to have the credit cards for which she applied in their names sent to a different address,” according to starbulletin.com.