Jennifer MacVittie, who traveled the country stealing people’s identification at Wal-Marts, wanted a few weeks to get her affairs in order before self-reporting to an Arizona prison.

But she won’t get it.

A federal judge has ordered her into the custody of U.S. marshals to begin her sentence immediately because she changed where she had been supposed to be living.

U.S. District Judge Joy Flowers Conti, who sentenced her to 57 months last week in the Wal-Mart case, imposed the order on her Tuesday after federal authorities argued that she had violated her bond.

MacVittie, 32, of Cranberry, and her husband, Robert, 35, made national news in 2014 when federal agents said they drove around the U.S. to “shoulder-surf,” stealing Wal-Mart customer identifications at check-cashing stations and then manufacturing counterfeit checks.

Security camera footage from Texas to Florida shows Jennifer MacVittie sneaking up behind customers as they cashed checks and secretly using her cell phone to record their Social Security numbers.

She and her husband, who already is in prison, then used those numbers to print up bogus checks, ripping off some $300,000.

She pleaded guilty to aggravated identity theft, and the judge allowed her to self-report to a federal prison in Phoenix this summer. She had initially been living with her mother and was later moved to the custody of a third party. But the U.S. probation office said she hadn’t been staying with that person as required and Judge Conti revoked her bond.

The U.S. Attorney’s office has also said she opened up credit card accounts in the name of a relative after she had pleaded guilty in the identify theft case.

Prosecutors said in court that Jennifer MacVittie, who has a history of bad checks and thefts, is likely to face a second indictment for wire and mail fraud related to those credit card applications.

First Published: March 23, 2016, 4:22 p.m.
Updated: March 23, 2016, 8:46 p.m.