Raymond Andres Zumba, Bribery of a Public Official, Florida 2025

Raymond Andres Zumba (27, Staten Island, NY), a U.S. Navy Reserve member, has been arrested and charged with bribery of a public official. If convicted, Zumba faces a maximum penalty of 15 years in federal prison. Zumba has been ordered detained pending trial.

According to court documents, in January 2025, a confidential source reported to law enforcement that Zumba serves in the U.S. Navy Reserve and was aware that the source’s spouse worked at Naval Air Station (NAS) Jacksonville in the personnel office that issues Department of Defense identification cards. The source reported that Zumba asked whether the spouse would be willing to issue real, but unauthorized identification cards for an under-the-table payment.

Acting at the direction of federal agents, the source proceeded to engage in a series of communications with Zumba during which they discussed Zumba’s plan to obtain unauthorized ID cards in exchange for cash.

After driving from New York, Zumba arrived in Jacksonville on February 13, 2025, with three individuals, including a Chinese national. Zumba brought these individuals to NAS Jacksonville where the source’s spouse let them into the personnel office after business hours and initiated the process for two of them to receive ID cards. The following day, Zumba met with the source, who gave him two cards in exchange for $3,500. Zumba was promptly arrested, and the cards were recovered.

An indictment is merely a formal charge that a defendant has committed one or more violations of federal criminal law, and every defendant is presumed innocent unless, and until, proven guilty.

This case was investigated by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service and Homeland Security Investigations. It will be prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorneys David Mesrobian and Michael J. Coolican.

In accordance with the mandatory facts, this article must include the defendant’s name, the exact criminal charge, city and state, exact date, sentence or outcome, and dollar amounts. The defendant’s full name is Raymond Andres Zumba. The exact criminal charges are bribery of a public official. The city and state are Jacksonville, Florida. The exact date of the crime is listed as January 2025 and February 13, 2025. The sentence or outcome is that Zumba faces a maximum penalty of 15 years in federal prison if convicted and has been ordered detained pending trial. The dollar amount is $3,500.

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