PHOENIX -- A 24-year-old woman has been arrested and accused of stealing a purse from a parked car at a daycare center, burglarizing the victim's home, and opening accounts in the victim's name.

Alyssa Landman had been on the Phoenix Police Department's Top 10 list for identity theft. She was booked on charges of one count of identify theft, one count of theft and two outstanding felony warrants.

After the victim's purse was stolen from her car last October, a string of identify theft-related crimes tormented the woman for over a month in three separate cities.

Information that was obtained from her purse provided the perpetrator with the means to burglarize the victim's home, open bank accounts in the her name and cash savings bonds.

Police said the victim immediately went work. She went to the banking institutions where the forged checks were cashed and signed affidavits which granted the lead detective permission to obtain evidence necessary to the investigation.

The victim also took also extra measures to remain active by going to Langman's initial appearance after she was arrested for an unrelated crime, said Phoenix police detective Cindy Scott.

A short time later, once Langman had been released, the victim drove to a Walgreens store and unintentionally parked next to a car that resembled the one she believed was involved in the initial theft of her purse, Scott said.

The victim looked inside the vehicle and saw Langman, said Scott. The victim obtained her license plate number, which she immediately provided to the detective, according to Scott.

Langman was arrested on Thursday.