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Who is Ava Virginia Misseldine ?

Ava Virginia Misseldine, 49, was arrested Thursday in Utah, where she moved from Ohio last year, according to an affidavit.

Arrest

An Ohio cupcake seller has been arrested after running a fraud by stealing the identity of a dead baby over the past two decades.

She was accused of using the dead girl’s name, Brie Bourgeois, to obtain a job, a pilot’s license, a passport, college admission and $1.5 million in COVID-19 ransom cash.

During her time in Ohio, she had been praised for running Koko Tea Salon & Bakery and was even featured on Food Network’s The Best Thing I Ever Ate.

But Misseldine continually changed her story and her background on how she became successful.

Misseldine apparently bears that name and has been living a double life since at least 2003, three years after she was released from prison for robbery, forgery and attempted escape.

Family

When she spoke to the Columbus Dispatch in 2013, she said her family had been in the tea business for generations.

In 2014, however, she said that she was a former cancer researcher who hailed from Hawaii.

Russell Misseldine, a relative of Ava, told The Daily Beast from his suburban Cleveland home that Ava was not from Hawaii, nor was she involved in cancer research, nor was her family ever in the tea business.

Both Brie Bourgeois and Ava Misseldine are publicly on record as having attended The Ohio State University in Columbus.

Misseldine’s first mistake dates back to 2006, when she received an Ohio driver’s license under her birth name in addition to the one she had as Brie Bourgeois.

Career

The following year, Misseldine began working for a private charter service in Columbus as a flight attendant under the pseudonym, which is when she earned her student pilot certificate.

In November 2007 she applied for a passport as a bourgeois, she said in order to go to Dubai, although this trip never took place.

When asked if she used any other names on the application, she left the answer blank but listed the name Bourgeois under an emergency contact.

The pandemic finally undid her, when she began applying for money from the Paycheck Protection Program using forged documents under both her own name and her fake name.

Having listed several of her previous businesses on the application, she received $1.5 million from the government.

She spent the money on homes in both Utah and Michigan and none of that money went to save jobs.

Misseldine caught date

Misseldine was finally caught in January 2021 when she was trying to apply for a new passport as Brie Bourgeois.

Investigators noted that she included her email address as sugarinccupcakes@yahoo.com, which connects to a link provided on Misseldine’s Twitter profile.

Quick Facts

• Ava Virginia Misseldine, 49, was arrested on Thursday in Utah, where she’d moved from Ohio in the last year, according to an affidavit 
• She was charged with using the dead child’s name – Brie Bourgeois – to get a job, a pilot’s license, a passport, college admission and $1.5million in PPP loans 
• During her time in Ohio, she’d been praised for running the Koko Tea Salon & Bakery and was even featured on the Food Network’s The Best Thing I Ever Ate
• But Misseldine continually changed her story and background for how she became a success 
• Misseldine has apparently gone by that name and lived a double life since at least 2003, three years after she was released from prison for theft