Teacher scammed students by stealing their identies!!

Sheyla Diaz, a teacher, was supposed to be a role model for the students she taught.

Instead she scammed students in her school.

During a five-week span in the summer of 2008, Diaz opened or attempted to open 17 credit card accounts using seven different people's identities. Four of the identity theft victims were enrolled at Monarch High School while Diaz taught there.

Diaz, 44, pleaded guilty last Friday to a single count of identity theft. She resigned in January from her job as a social sciences teacher at Monarch High School in Coconut Creek.

The U.S. Postal Service caught on to Diaz's criminal behavior when numerous pieces of mail with different names started arriving at the Coral Springs apartment she shared with her boyfriend, court records show.

Now the former high school teacher faces up to five years in prison.

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