Incarcerated Sarasota woman commits fraud with help of daughter

The Sarasota County Sheriff's Office has arrested 43-year-old Elizabeth Lanoue and her daughter 21-year-old Robin Dople for conspiring to commit fraud against the state's unemployment benefit system.

In June 2011 investigators charged Lanoue with 32 counts of Obtaining a Controlled Substance by Fraud. She was arrested again in June of this year along with Dople, for three counts of Possession of a Controlled Substance.

While Lanue was behind bars, deputies discovered that she had Dople go online to enter Lanoue's unemployment claims and state she was actively looking for work, even though she was incarcerated.

Both women have now been charged with 14 counts of Obtaining Reemployment Assistance by Fraud.

Contact Eddie Kirsch at [email protected].