Henry Lee's Rap Sheet for Dec. 8, 2015

(KTVU) - Here's the Rap Sheet for Dec. 8, 2015:

FEMALE DUO NABBED: Two San Francisco women have been arrested in connection with more than a dozen thefts from unlocked cars in Belmont, police said today.

Joann Alley, 55, and Stephanie Lara, 47, were taken into custody on Monday morning by Belmont police and agents with the San Mateo County Vehicle Theft Task Force.

They were arrested at the Bridgepointe Shopping Center in San Mateo, where they had gone to use stolen credit cards taken just hours earlier in Belmont, according to police Capt. Patrick Halleran.

Police say the two stolen items from cars since Dec. 1.

Both are being held San Mateo County Jail in Redwood City on suspicion of vehicle burglary, possession of stolen property, theft, use of a stolen credit card and conspiracy. Alley was also being held on a parole violation.

ALLEGED IVORY EXPORTER BUSTED: A man's been charged by the feds with illegally trying to export two figurines made of African elephant ivory.

Fan Li violated the Endangered Species Act when he tried to ship the ivory on Jan. 15, 2015, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The ivory was seized at the San Francisco International Airport.

Li was charged by federal prosecutors with two misdemeanor counts alleging that he violated the Endangered Species Act. He was named in document filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco that is known as an information, which in federal court signals that he intends to plead guilty in the case.

DON'T CALL ME SHIRLEY: Five people have been indicted by a federal grand jury in San Jose on charges that they scammed at least 40 investors of more than $5 million after convincing them to help pay for the medical care for a woman named "Shirley."

Laurence Miles, Munsif Shirazi, a.k.a. Mike Shirazi; Robert Michael Stephens, Rayan Lakshmanan and Shirley Ernestine Molina were named in an indictment accusing them of wire fraud, conspiracy and engaging in monetary transactions in property derived from specified unlawful activity.

From 2009 to November of this year, the group told investors that "Shirley" was "very ill and due to inherit a large estate" worth more than $1 billion -- and that if they helped to pay her medical bills, they'd get a share of the estate "once its assets were released from an alleged probate proceeding" involving the Federal Reserve, the indictment says.

Investors were told that they'd "receive a large return on their investment, often as much as $1,000 for every dollar invested," according to the indictment.

To keep the alleged scam going, the defendants sent e-mails, texts and letters and phoned investors, telling them of an alleged delay in the probate proceedings "in order to lull them into thinking that they would soon receive a return on their investment," the indictment says.

In fact, though, "Shirley" "was not extremely ill," and there was no estate to be settled, FBI agents and prosecutors say. 

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