NEW JERSEY (1010 WINS) — A New Jersey man was convicted Friday for stealing multiple credit cards in the mail and using them to make retail purchases worth thousands of dollars, U.S. Attorney Vikas Khanna announced.
The Newark man, 28-year-old Dashaun Brown, along with two co-conspirators—Jahad Salter, 29, and Hakir Brown, 28—colluded with Postal Service employees to work their scheme.
USPS employees, including 31-year-old Khadijah Banks-Oneal, would take credit cards from the mail and give them to the trio for money. Brown and his fellow scammers would then call the banks and pretend to be the person the card was mailed to and use personal identifying information to activate the cards, officials said.
With the activated cards, the men would buy items from retail stores in and around New Jersey with losses totaling over $1 million.
Salter, Hakir Brown and Banks-Oneal all previously pleaded guilty to their crimes and are all awaiting sentencing set for this summer.
Brown was convicted on four counts including conspiracy to commit bank fraud, bank fraud, receipt and possession of stolen mail, and aggravated identity theft in connection with bank fraud after a week-long trial. He was acquitted on one count of bank fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft.
For all of his charges, Brown faces nearly 40 years in federal prison and over $1 million dollars in fines when he is sentenced on September 6.
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