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They got an assist from Port Authority police, who nabbed 22-year-old Shuron Reed at LaGuardia Airport, Detective Capt. Stanley Zon told CLIFFVIEW PILOT.
Reed was extradited and brought to the Bergen County Jail on Monday, then posted $15,000 and was released the following day. He is charged with a host of offenses, including forgery, credit card theft, possessing false documents, forgery devices and bogus credit cards and defacing a firearm.
The case began with the July 10 discovery of a car, rented with bogus credit cards, in a parking garage at 2050 Central Road, where Reed and 32-year-old co-defendant Khalid J. Sumbry live.
Khalid J. Sumbry (Courtesy BERGEN COUNTY SHERIFF), Shuron Reed wanted mugshot (Courtesy FORT LEE POLICE)
Fraud Detectives T. J. Cullen and Cory Horton discovered more than 40 bogus withdrawals made from Wells Fargo Bank branches totaling $100,000, Police Chief Keith Bendul said.
They alerted agents from Homeland Security Investigations (Newark) and H.I.D.T.A. Group 5 (West Paterson), who joined the investigation, he said.
On July 29, Fort Lee detectives and the federal agents executed a search warrant at the Central Road address and found “numerous fraudulent driver’s licenses, credit cards, and blank checks” used in the various thefts, the chief said.
They also seized a Jimenez Arms .380-caliber handgun, with a defaced serial number, Bendul said.
Sumbry was found in Brooklyn and arrested as a fugitive from justice. Detectives said they found him carrying 15 different driver’s licenses in various names and states, with his picture on each.
They also recovered 20 fraudulent credit cards in names matching the fake licenses, they said said.
Sumbry “had the fraudulent licenses and credit cards made in the names of Wells Fargo customers so he could access their accounts and make cash withdrawals,” Bendul said.
Sumbry remained held in the county jail on $150,000, reduced from an original $750,000.
Detectives charged him with 40 counts of forgery, 39 counts of theft by deception, three counts of credit card fraud and two each of identity theft and trafficking in the identity of others.
Bedunl thanked the federal agencies and Queens County District Attorney’s Office for their work on the case.
He also reminded citizens to monitor their credit card statements, bank accounts and credit reports.
If you see any unauthorized transactions, call police and notify your bank, credit company or credit agency, the chief said.
MUGSHOT: Courtesy BERGEN COUNTY SHERIFF
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