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Feds: NJ, NY Postal Workers Stole Credit Cards To Buy $1.3M In Luxury Items For Online Resale Feds: NJ, NY Postal Workers Stole Credit Cards To Buy $1.3M In Luxury Items For Online Resale
Feds: NJ, NY Postal Workers Stole Credit Cards To Buy $1.3M In Luxury Items For Online Resale Three U.S. Postal Service workers from New Jersey and New York City masterminded a scheme to buy more than $1.3 million worth of designer clothes and accessories using credit cards that they stole from the mail, federal authorities charged. The items were then sold with the help of an entrepreneur who operated an online shopping site, they said. Nathanael Foucault, Johnathan “Junzie-J” Persaud, and Fabiola “Lady Fab” Mompoint passed the cards to a quintet of shoppers who bought the items at department stores in New Jersey and the city with the stolen credit cards, an indictment returned by …

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Police Seek Northampton County Man Accused Of Felony Access Device Fraud, Theft Police Seek Northampton County Man Accused Of Felony Access Device Fraud, Theft
Police Seek Northampton County Man Accused Of Felony Access Device Fraud, Theft Police in Northampton County are seeking the public’s help locating a man accused of felony access device fraud and theft by unlawful taking. A warrant was issued August 25 for the arrest of Geoffrey Allen Painter, 28, with a felony charge for forgery, as well as theft by unlawful taking and possession of an access device known to be counterfeit or altered, Lower Saucon Township police said Thursday. The alleged crimes occurred on the 1200 block of Seidersville Road in Bethlehem, police said. Anyone with information about Painter’s whereabouts is asked to contact the Lower Saucon Police De…

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by Valerie Musson
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Lehigh Valley Man Charged For Gambling With Credit Cards Stolen While Escorting Woman To Car Lehigh Valley Man Charged For Gambling With Credit Cards Stolen While Escorting Woman To Car
Lehigh Valley Man Charged For Gambling With Credit Cards Stolen While Escorting Woman To Car A man from Bethlehem has been charged after he allegedly gambled online using credit cards he stole from a woman in a wheelchair when escorting her to her car. Victor Manuel Mariera, 41, is accused of stealing the cards from the woman at Wind Creek Casino in Bethlehem shortly after 12:45 a.m. on April 7, LehighValleyLive reports citing the the Bureau of Gaming Enforcement. Mariera, of the 1100 block of Dover Lane, was seen caught on surveillance footage taking the woman to her car, rummaging through her white bag and placing it in his backpack, the report says. The victim later reported a …

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by Valerie Musson
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Report: NY Woman, 62, Attempted To Steal $155K From Victim’s Bank Account In Northampton County Report: NY Woman, 62, Attempted To Steal $155K From Victim’s Bank Account In Northampton County
Report: NY Woman, 62, Attempted To Steal $155K From Victim’s Bank Account In Northampton County A 62-year-old woman was arrested after attempting to make two withdrawals totaling more than $150,000 in another person’s name from a Northampton County bank, reports say. Rochel Cruz, of the Bronx, is accused of filling out a withdrawal slip totaling $55,000 using another person’s information at the Wells Fargo Bank on Schoenersville Road last Friday, LehighValleyLive reports citing court records. Cruz then returned to the same bank and asked for a cashier’s check made out to $100,000 cash, the report says. Cruz had a deposit slip and a fraudulent New Jersey driver’s license when pol…

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by Valerie Musson
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TAX SCAM: NJ Man Admits Posing As 18 Different People To Collect Returns TAX SCAM: NJ Man Admits Posing As 18 Different People To Collect Returns
TAX Scam: NJ Man Admits Posing As 18 Different People To Collect Returns A Bergen County man admitted collecting tax refunds by using stolen identities to pose as 18 different people. Emmanuel A. Barrientos-Fermin, 33, of Tenafly told a federal judge via videoconference in Newark on Tuesday that he gave an unnamed co-conspirator a photo of himself. The accomplice then produced bogus driver’s licenses with his picture on them, he said. The co-conspirator also gave him matching Social Security cards, driver’s licenses and W-2 forms – even birth certificates, Barrientos-Fermin said. Armed with the documents, Barrientos-Fermin said, he went to various tax preparin…

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by Jerry DeMarco