JAMILA WILLIAMS-STEVENSON, ID Theft Scheme, Connecticut 2016

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West Haven Woman Jailed for ID Theft Scheme

A West Haven woman has been sentenced to 4 years in prison for operating a fraud and identity theft scheme that targeted over 30 victims.

JAMILA WILLIAMS-STEVENSON, 37, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to 48 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for operating a fraud and identity theft scheme.

According to court documents and statements made in court, between approximately 2012 and July 2016, WILLIAMS-STEVENSON and Lorena Coburn worked together to steal personal identifying information from patients at Yale New Haven Hospital, where WILLIAMS-STEVENSON worked as a care companion. The scheme resulted in an attempted loss of more than $150,000 to banks and victims.

WILLIAMS-STEVENSON and Coburn submitted change of address applications for their victims to the U.S. Postal Service, diverting their mail, including checks, to addresses controlled by the defendants. They also stole checks from mailboxes, counterfeited them, and deposited the stolen and counterfeit checks into bank accounts opened in the names of identity theft victims.

Forensic analysis of WILLIAMS-STEVENSON’s iPhone revealed text messages between WILLIAMS-STEVENSON and Coburn discussing the murder of an identity theft victim to collect on a $75,000 life insurance policy. WILLIAMS-STEVENSON was named as the beneficiary on the policy.

WILLIAMS-STEVENSON was arrested on July 21, 2016, and has been detained since. On December 12, 2016, she pleaded guilty to one count of bank fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft. WILLIAMS-STEVENSON has been ordered to pay restitution of $53,365.37 to various financial institutions and a university that suffered financial losses.

Coburn, also from West Haven, pleaded guilty to the same charges on November 30, 2016, and is released on a $100,000 bond pending sentencing.

The case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Sarala V. Nagala and investigated by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, the IRS – Criminal Investigation Division, the Connecticut Financial Crimes Task Force, and the West Haven, New Haven and Orange Police Departments.