Two Woodland residents, Latomba Bishop and Joshua Yadon, pleaded guilty to a scheme to steal identities from mail obtained by fraudulent vacation holds and mail forwarding requests filed online.
According to court documents, Bishop, Yadon, and Norman Thompson, 36, of Sacramento, conspired to obtain credit cards, checks, and merchandise in victims’ names and then diverted these items from the victims’ true addresses to the conspirators’ addresses using fraudulent vacation holds and mail forwarding requests filed online with the U.S. Postal Service.
The defendants were captured on video using fraudulently obtained credit cards at various retailers in the Sacramento area. Bishop made a $1,000 online purchase of shoes using a victim’s compromised online merchant account and demanded reimbursement from the company, posing as the victim.
On April 19, 2017, Yadon and Bishop bought over $1,000 in merchandise at a home improvement store using a credit card obtained through the scheme.
This case is the product of an investigation by the United States Postal Inspection Service with assistance from the Davis Police Department, Sacramento County Probation, and the Woodland Police Department.
Co-defendant Thompson was sentenced on October 5, 2017, to three years and 10 months in prison for conspiring to obtain mail by fraud and ordered to pay $38,086 in restitution to victims of the scheme.
Bishop faces a maximum statutory penalty of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine, while Yadon faces a maximum statutory penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
Key Facts
- State: California
- Category: Cybercrime|Fraud & Financial Crimes
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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