Sanchez and Marlowe purchased over $35,000 worth of merchandise with fraudulent credit cards.
Yuniel Sanchez, age 36, from Grand Prairie, Texas, and Shannon Marlowe, age 35, from Fort Worth, Texas, each received prison terms, of over five years for their roles in a conspiracy to transport stolen property, wire fraud and identity heft.
Yuniel Sanchez and Shannon Marlowe were each convicted of one count of conspiracy to commit interstate transportation of stolen property, one count of interstate transportation of stolen property, one count of wire fraud and one count of identity theft.
Evidence presented by the United States in court revealed between Jan. 1, 2019 until on or about June 11, 2019, Marlowe and Sanchez knowingly and willfully conspired to transport a Penske moving truck they rented using a fraudulent credit card in Dallas, Texas. As part of the conspiracy Marlowe and Sanchez acquired valid credit card numbers and personal identifiers of unsuspecting victims. They then forged fraudulent identification cards and credit cards in the names of the victims. Marlowe and Sanchez acquired a credit card embossing machine, valid gift cards and other tools and supplies and forged identification cards in the names of the victims bearing their own images instead of the images of the unsuspecting victims. Marlowe and Sanchez travelled to multiple retailers in multiple states, including, Iowa, Minnesota and Tennessee, and presented the forged and fraudulent credit cards and identification cards to retailers. On June 11, 2019, law enforcement officers in Sioux City, Iowa conducted a search of the Penske truck. Officers located stolen property and receipts from various retailers, a credit card embossing machine, multiple gift cards, and about 15 completed forged and fraudulent credit cards. Marlowe and Sanchez used the fraudulent credit cards to make $35,828.06 worth of purchases.
Marlowe and Yuniel Sanchez were each sentenced on May 29, 2020, in Sioux City by United States District Court Chief Judge Leonard T. Strand. Each was sentenced to 61 months’ imprisonment. Each was ordered to pay make restitution and pay special assessments of $400. They each must also serve a three-year term of supervised release after the prison term. There is no parole in the federal system.
Both are being held in the United States Marshal’s custody until they can be transported to a federal prison.
The case was investigated by the Sioux City, Iowa Police Department. The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Forde Fairchild
Court file information at https://ecf.iand.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/login.pl.
The case file number is 19-CR-4069.
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Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys
