A suspect has been charged in the thefts of tax refunds from U.S. military members, according to investigators. 

Dorothy Boulin, 29, is charged in the kind of scheme that Florida Southern District U.S. Attorney Wifredo Ferrer called a top priority. 

"This has become a real epidemic. Folks stealing your identity steal your tax refund," said Ferrer.

Boulin, prosecutors said, had hundreds of names, addresses and Social Security cards and offered to sell them to an FBI informant. She also had an electronic filing number, as though she were a legitimate tax preparer and admitted filing online for at least 14 tax refunds for more than $60,000 for other people, prosecutors said. 

"It's easy because you just need a just need a laptop and identification information to commit this fraud," said Ferrer.  "It's also safer for the criminals. We've seen a trend where those who were involved in much more dangerous crimes now come into this scheme."

The alleged victims are U.S. servicemen and servicewomen, including at least one U.S. Marine now serving in Afghanistan. 

Last week, a volunteer at a Social Security office in Pembroke Pines who was in charge of shredding personal information was accused of selling the info to another man, who prosecutors said used it to file false tax returns on quick filing programs and downloaded the refunds to a cash card.