NEW ORLEANS  — A California man has pleaded responsible in a seven-state plot to purchase $340,000 value of present playing cards and items at The Dwelling Depot utilizing different folks’s bank card numbers, U.S. Legal professional Duane A. Evans mentioned Monday in a information launch.

Jonathan Orpilla Sinlao, 37, of San Jose, pleaded responsible on Thursday to conspiracy, and prosecutors agreed to drop seven counts of entry gadget fraud when he pleaded responsible, the assertion mentioned.

Investigators regarded into greater than 100 unauthorized purchases between February of 2019 and July of 2019 at Dwelling Depot shops in Louisiana, Florida, Texas, Arizona, California, New York, and Oklahoma, in response to the information launch.

Sinlao would pay with “a short lived cost go containing his identify and 16-digit bank card numbers,” in response to a sworn assertion. The bank card numbers weren’t issued to Sinlao.

At the least seven such purchases, in April 2019, have been within the New Orleans space.

Sinlao was caught after a Dwelling Depot worker in Oklahoma Metropolis checked on two numbers on July 4, 2019, and discovered they weren’t Sinlao’s, the sworn assertion mentioned.