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Serial Fraudster Sentenced to Four Years in Federal Prison
Baltimore, Maryland – Boaz Salmon Bratton-Bey, age 38, of Owings Mills, Maryland, has been sentenced to four years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for federal bank fraud conspiracy and aggravated identity theft charges. Judge George L. Russell III ordered that the first year of supervised release must be spent in a half-way house or residential reentry program.
According to his guilty plea, Bratton-Bey and his co-conspirators committed numerous acts of bank fraud using the stolen personal identifying information of individual victims, without the victims’ knowledge or permission.
Specifically, on June 5, 2019, Bratton-Bey and his co-conspirators executed an “instant credit” scheme in which a co-conspirator, Terrell Meadows, used a fictitious driver’s license bearing the image of Meadows and the personal information of an individual victim to obtain a store credit card at a home improvement store.
The credit application contained the name, date of birth, Social Security Number, and other personally identifying information of a real person who did not consent to the use of his PII. The credit application was approved and a credit card with a $12,000 line of credit was issued in temporary form instantaneously. Transaction records indicate that on June 5 and June 6, 2019, the account was used to make a total of four purchases at four different store locations totaling in $5,988.14.
After one month of the truck rental, Bratton-Bey failed to provide payment and return the U-Haul truck, which caused the truck to be reported as stolen. During a traffic stop, The Baltimore County Police located the truck, identified the driver as Bratton-Bey, and retrieved fraudulently obtained 14 credit cards featuring 14 different names of real individuals.
Following the seizure of those credit cards, investigators obtained bank records from financial institutions which showed that these cards had been used to commit fraudulent transactions, totaling at least $6,822.03 in actual fraud and at least $1,046.85 in attempted fraud. Records obtained from U-Haul revealed that Bratton-Bey paid a total of $4,039.91 for the rental of the U-Haul truck using fraudulent credit cards issued to real persons.
According to his plea agreement, investigators executed a search warrant at Bratton-Bey’s apartment on July 25, 2019. During the course of the search warrant, Law enforcement located counterfeit identification documents bearing photographs of Bratton-Bey and other individuals, credit/debit cards issued to individuals or entities other than Bratton-Bey, mail and financial correspondence addressed to individuals other than Bratton-Bey, and several cell phones and other electronic devices.
Key Facts
- State: Maryland
- Category: Fraud & Financial Crimes
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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