Two people pleaded guilty Monday to a scheme to defraud banks and credit unions through a series of stolen and forged checks, driver’s licenses and other phony documents.
According to court records, the defendants operated from at least December of last year to May in the Mobile area. Pleading guilty in U.S. District Court were Jonathan Earl Kyser, 21, of Mobile, and Danquile Nakricia Westbrook, 20, of Mobile. They are among a dozen people named in the federal indictment.Kyser’s written plea agreement indicates that the defendants and others deposited counterfeit and forged checks at automated teller machines and then made unlawful withdrawals.
A search for weapons revealed Kyser had a Glock pistol in his jacket pocket and 10 grams of marijuana in his pants pocket, the plea agreement states. The document indicates that officers also found a book of blank checks, a computer, two bank cards that did not belong to Kyser and a notebook containing entries such as, “don’t do mobile deposits,” “find a logo and download it” and “email/account info delete.
Gardner is scheduled to plead guilty on Tuesday, while Betties is set to go on trial during the February term. Kyser’s devices had dozens of images of checks that had been stolen from the mail in Mobile, according to the plea document.
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