A former Hawai'i beauty queen and Kailua mother of three who is accused of stealing the identities of dozens of O'ahu residents was ordered held without bail yesterday.

Susan E. Shaw, 35, already was being held at O'ahu Community Correctional Center on bail of $1 million. Yesterday, Circuit Judge Dexter Del Rosario ruled in favor of a motion by deputy prosecuting attorney Christopher Van Marter to hold Shaw without bail because she poses a significant flight risk.

Last year, Shaw flew from Hawai'i to China, Canada, California, Nevada, Kansas and New Jersey, according to court records.

Shaw is accused of spending more than $160,000 with credit cards she obtained with other people's personal information.

At a bail hearing yesterday, Honolulu police Detective John McCarthy testified that Shaw made between 40 and 50 flights and "traveled frequently between Hawai'i and California, almost on a twice-monthly basis."

She kept at least two residences in Southern California — in Hermosa Beach and Manhattan Beach — and had relationships with at least two men in addition to the man she was living with in Kailua, who is the father of two of her children, McCarthy said.

Shaw has an older child from a previous relationship in Honolulu, friends and family said.

In 1992, Shaw was named first runner-up in the Miss Hawai'i International scholarship pageant. She took over the crown when the winner left to become a cheerleader for the then-Los Angeles Raiders professional football team, pageant officials said.

More recently, in Southern California, Shaw "was talking about marriage with at least two men there. ... She was very secretive, kept her Hawai'i connection more or less quiet with other stories of what she does and doesn't do," McCarthy said.

Manhattan Beach police searched Shaw's home there and found personal information on 40 to 50 other people from O'ahu "aside from what's in the current indictment," McCarthy said.

"She was essentially living another life," Van Marter told Del Rosario.

After the hearing, Van Marter said that one of the men Shaw was involved with in Southern California was a Manhattan Beach doctor who "was in discussion to be married and had gone to China together (with Shaw). ... The other one was married but left his wife to be with Susan Shaw."

The two men didn't know of each other, he said.

Shaw has been indicted on 122 criminal counts that include identity theft, forgery and money laundering. If she is convicted, prosecutors are asking for a life term with the possibility of parole.

A trial is tentatively scheduled for July 20.

Between February 2008 and April 29, Shaw allegedly used the personal information of 11 people to apply for credit cards from seven credit card issuers, according to court records.

She then allegedly received more than 50 credit cards and used them to obtain money, goods, services and merchandise from retail merchants, service providers and other organizations, according to court records.

The cost to the credit card issuers is more than $160,000, according to court records. McCarthy said the investigation is continuing.

Shaw was arrested at Honolulu Airport on May 7 after arriving on a flight from Los Angeles. On May 15, police discovered an additional 25 potential O'ahu victims, according to court records.