Brianna Mills, Bank Fraud, Georgia 2023

Brianna Mills, 28, of Loganville, Georgia, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for her role in a multi-year bank fraud conspiracy.

According to court documents, Mills abused her position as a bank teller to steal the personal identifying information (PII) of bank customers.

Mills passed the information to her then-boyfriend, Stanley Desirade, 36, of Lanham, Maryland, who used that PII to order fake identification documents from Desmond Nkwenya, 37, of Brookhaven, Georgia.

These fake identification documents, which Nkwenya made according to Desirade’s specifications, usually included a victim’s PII but the face of a co-conspirator.

Once Nkwenya sent the fake identification documents to Desirade, Desirade provided them to Terrell Hale, 33, of Rockville, Maryland, who supervised other co-conspirators as they went into the bank, impersonated the identity theft victim, and withdrew money from the victim’s account.

During the conspiracy, the conspirators stole the PII of at least 25 customers and used that information to create at least 100 fake identification documents.

The conspirators successfully stole approximately $660,082, and they attempted to steal an additional $1,008,134.

Desirade and Mills pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit identity fraud, while Hale and Nkwenya pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bank fraud.

Desirade was sentenced to six years in prison on September 29, 2023, and Mills was sentenced to 18 months in prison on August 25, 2023.

Hale was sentenced to four years in prison on July 21, 2023, and Nkwenya was sentenced to 30 months in prison on [date].

The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Christopher Hood.

A copy of this press release is located on the website of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia.

Related court documents and information are located on the website of the District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia or on PACER by searching for Case Nos. 1:23-cr-40 and 1:23-cr-60.

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