CLEVELAND – Charles E. Smith, Jr., 52, of Woodmere, Ohio, was sentenced at present by U.S. District Decide Christopher A. Boyko to 33 months in jail and ordered to pay $10,621.23 in restitution after he pleaded responsible to utilizing stolen monetary info to buy gasoline.
In line with court docket paperwork, from Might 2019 by way of Might 2020, Smith, the previous Mayor of Woodmere, Ohio, bought stolen credit score and debit card account info, together with account numbers and addresses, from the darkish net. Smith then used a bank card reader encoder/author to program that info onto clean playing cards and used these playing cards to make fraudulent purchases of gasoline at varied fuel stations in Northern Ohio. Courtroom data state that Smith bought the gasoline to gas automobiles that he used to ship packages for Amazon.
In complete, Smith bought a minimum of $10,621.23 in gasoline utilizing over 100 stolen debit and bank card accounts. After his arrest, investigators later decided that Smith had bought greater than 600 stolen debit and bank card accounts from the darkish net, affecting victims in 25 states.
Smith pleaded responsible to at least one depend of entry gadget fraud and one depend of aggravated id theft on Might 19, 2022.
This case was investigated by the U.S. Secret Service and was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Lawyer Payum Doroodian.
