jail behind me here, there was a man named marc bell who would go into the computer, get the information and use it to file fake income tax return and get money. he pleaded guilty to all of that yesterday. he used the names of the youth in a tax fraud scheme. >> entrusted with the care of the young people to do that. >> they talked about stopping the street robbery we talk about the theft of marc bell. >> we are appealed by it. it was a conspiracy they got $2 million. were you surprised that the employee stealed the kids identity? >> no. i'm not surprised about nothing these days in life. >> that is what they do. you know, that is what they hope. get involved and try to steal. sam: what about the victim of the identity theft? >> we will pay for the credit check and the credit monitoring services for the families. >> after bell was laid off in 2013, he was hired by d.c. services. and still on the payroll as recently as yesterday. >> if you still unemployed now it takes a few hours to make him not an employ. sam: he is one of 15 people so far who pleaded guilty in a massive conspiracy invo

. >> prosecutors said marc bell now admitted to saling troubled children's identities and using them to get fake tax returns. >> garrett haake has more life from the department of youth and human services where bell worked. it's stunning. >> reporter: the department of justice called it a massive and sophisticated scheme to file the fraudulent returns. there were 130 coconspirators involved in the scheme. >> reporter: back in 2001, the washington post published a glowing story on marc bell's work helping troubled teens in washington, dc, stay out of trouble with the law. by 2006 he joined the department of youth rehabilitation services where he, himself got into trouble, stealing identities from the children he should have been helping. court documents accuse bell of taking part in a years' long conspiracy to use real identities stolen from vulnerable people to file fake tax returns and break in government refund checks. he used his access to the computer systems to lift names of current and former rehabilitated youth with their social security numbers. $4.4million were claimed in re

jail behind me here, there was a man named marc bell who would go into the computer, get the informationfake income tax return and get money. he pleaded guilty to all of that yesterday.

marc bell turns out is the 15th person to plead guilty in the conspiracy. we will have more on the story coming up on "abc7 news at 6:00". reporting live, i'm sam ford. back to you. alison: thank you. federal manhunt is underway for a possibly arm and dangerous jewel thief wanted in multiple states now. the f.b.i. in fact is looking for a woman. accused of robbing six jewelry stores. all across the south. the recent robbery took place in outlet mall in north korea. a woman pulled out a gun, tied up two employees and left with several pieces of jewelry. now she might also be working alongside a man. a jeweler trade group is offering a $10,000 reward. alison: look at the weather now. today was beautiful winter. jonathan: if you like winter. doug hill a look at the forecast. a little warmer today. doug: we started off mentioning a few minutes ago a year ago we had 2.4 inches of snow, the first snow of last winter. here we have a list of the last five years. back in 2011-2012, january 79 79 -- january 9 before we had the first measurable snowfall. when we will

current windchills, 7 below. 13 in newark. 13 in bell marc. here's a planner through the overnight. clear skies, 18 at midnight. look at the early evening wind per hour. the wind backs off but still brisk and biting tomorrow morning at 16. feeling like 0 to 5 below. 25 by noon. there's your satellite picture. the snow showers leaving the east end of long island. those clouds should be comfortably offshore overnight. you see all the winds pouring down from upstate, where the numbers are in the single digits, so these are your lows tonight. for monticello, eleven white belmar. and it will be a very slow recovery with less wind, maybe not as harsh in the afternoon, but still another day below freezing and we haven't been below freezing all fall and early winter. it's bright but cold tomorrow with diminishing wind. that high splits in two. goes over the atlantic, so more as cold. we should be able to get into moderating trend should continue into the late week. here's your accuweather forecast, bitter cold tonight. windchills near 0. your low of 14 in new york city. that's the coldest a