Jacqueline Nicole Lee Warrick, 26, of Miami, and Tracy Delva, 27, of Deerfield Beach, pled guilty today for their participation in a conspiracy to unjustly enrich themselves by stealing personal identifying information and using the information to make unauthorized wire transfers from the victims’ bank accounts and obtain unauthorized credit or debit cards.
Co-defendant Chouman Emily Syrilien, 25, of Lauderdale Lakes, pled guilty on May 19, 2014. Co-defendant Carlos Antonio Alexander, 24, of Orlando, pled guilty on July 16, 2014. Alexander’s sentencing is scheduled for October 1, 2014, at 10:00 a.m. Co-defendant Angel Arcos, 23, of Pompano Beach, pled guilty on May 15, 2014. His sentencing is scheduled for September 3, 2014, at 2:00 p.m.
Change of plea hearings are scheduled on September 3, 2014 for Monique Smith, 31, of Pompano Beach, and Shantegra La’Shae Godfrey, 23, of Deerfield Beach.
Trial is scheduled on September 22, 2014 for Arrington Basil Segu, 28, of Miami.
According to court documents, defendant Syrilien was employed by Interactive Response Technologies, Inc. (IRT) located in Margate. IRT provides staffing for call centers to handle direct sales and customer inquiries for AT&T. Syrilien unlawfully provided a co-conspirator with the personal identifying information from multiple AT&T customer files. Defendant Segu also unlawfully provided personal identifying information of numerous individuals to the co-conspirator.
Defendants Alexander, Delva, Godfrey, Smith and Warrick were added as “authorized users” on victims’ credit or debit card accounts or bank accounts to access the accounts of persons whose personal identifying information had been stolen. Once a co-conspirator’s name was added as an “authorized user,” the bank and/or credit card company was directed to mail additional debit or credit cards bearing the names of these newly added “authorized users” to their addresses or addresses under their control, all without the true account holder’s knowledge or consent. The defendants used these credit and debit cards to make purchases or obtain money.
Defendants Delva and Warrick both utilized fraudulently obtained debit and credit cards that bore their names as additional “authorized users” on victims’ accounts to make both retail purchases as well as cash advances in excess of $28,000. Defendants Alexander, Smith and Godfrey each made both retail purchases as well as cash advances in excess of $24,000, $12,000 and $8,200, respectively.
Defendant Arcos allowed his personal information to be used to open a bank account to further the fraudulent activity. From September 16 to 18, 2013, five withdrawals totaling $13,000, were made from the fraudulent account and deposited into Arcos’ checking account.
The defendants face a maximum of thirty years in prison for the conspiracy charge, a maximum of ten years in prison for the access device fraud charge, and a mandatory term of two years in prison for the aggravated identity theft charge.
SOURCE: U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of Florida