Eye-care center employee charged with stealing clients' identities

Schaumburg police charged a former employee of U.S. Vision, a retail vision care center located inside Schaumburg's JC Penney store at 3 Woodfield Mall, with identity theft for allegedly using confidential client information to set up fraudulent credit accounts at the department store.

June Stevenson was also charged with theft and unlawful use of a credit card in a series of incidents involving the identities of at least five U.S. Vision clients, said Assistant State's Attorney Ryan Whitney at Stevenson's bond hearing Tuesday in a Rolling Meadows courtroom.

Police arrested Stevenson, of the 1300 block of Kingsbury Drive in Hanover Park, Saturday following a three-month mini-crime spree that began Jan. 1. In her statement to police, the 27-year-old said she went through client files to obtain personal information which she used to charge more than $4,400 in JC Penney merchandise, Whitney said.

Citing Stevenson's lack of criminal background, a Cook County judge set bail at $10,000.

If convicted, Stevenson faces up to five years in prison. She next appears in court on April 28.