SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that a Houston man was sentenced Monday to three years and seven months in prison for conspiring with other Texas residents to steal more than $230,000 at Louisiana casinos using unauthorized credit cards.
Antoine Ladon Williams, 35, of Houston, Texas, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge S. Maurice Hicks Jr. on one count of conspiracy, using or trafficking in unauthorized access devices. He was also sentenced to three years of supervised release and ordered to pay $188,089 restitution.
According to the guilty pleas, Williams and other defendants conspired from October 2014 to October 2015 to use or traffic in unauthorized access devices. Williams provided members of the conspiracy with false temporary Texas identification cards and credit cards. Members of the conspiracy would then travel to casinos throughout the Western District of Louisiana and use the access devices to illegally receive cash advances.
The other members of the conspiracy charged in the Western District of Louisiana are: Miocha Michelle Walker, 35, Houston; Ernest Joseph Duhon III, 44, Pearland, Texas; Leanna Marie Hanchett, 46, Port Fresno, Texas; Donald Wayne Brown, 59, Houston, Texas; and Sharlene Yvette Lott, 44, Houston. These defendants previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy and were also ordered to pay $188,089 in restitution.
See the table below for more information:
Defendants
Date of plea
Sentencing date
Prison time
Walker
March 27, 2017
Sept. 21, 2017
12 months
Duhon
Feb. 28, 2017
June 8, 2017
37 months
Hanchett
Jan. 24, 2017
July 26, 2017
40 months
Brown
March 13, 2017
Aug. 16, 2017
24 months
Lott
March 6, 2017
July 26, 2017
24 months
The FBI and Louisiana State Police conducted the investigation. Assistant U.S. Attorney Daniel J. McCoy prosecuted the case.
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
