GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Eighteen people were convicted for their involvement in a scheme to defraud Bank of America.
The scheme attempted to obtain over $780,000 from Bank of America by opening accounts at the bank to accept fraudulent check deposits, which were then fraudulently withdrawn from the accounts at banks and casinos.
Court documents say the scheme resulted in a $455,709 loss.
The following people were sentenced for their roles in the scheme:
- Tirrell Perry Thomas (Kalamazoo): 102 months in prison
- Earl Lee Cobb IV (Chicago): 78 months in prison
- Nickolas Maurice Fry (Kalamazoo): 41 months in prison, plus an additional 13 months in prison for a related federal supervised release violation
- Jerome Datra Perry (South Haven): 15 months in prison
- Josiah Nathan Preston (Wyoming): 14 months in prison
- Kyle Dwayne Mosley (Kalamazoo): 14 months in prison
- James Langford (South Haven): 12 months and one day in prison
- Darmesha Lakeya Gunn (Parchment): 11 months in prison
- Dwayne Edward Perry (Grand Rapids): 8 months in prison
- Tiffany Danielle Sanders (Sturgis): 4 months in prison
- Elnora Snipes (South Haven): 3 months in prison
- Desiree Analiese Winfield (Kalamazoo): 2 months in prison
- Antoine Naivon Younger (Kalamazoo): 1 month in prison
- Brenda Marie Davis (Kalamazoo): 1 day in prison
- Sean Allen Haney (Grand Rapids): 3 years of probation
- Kelsey Alice Thompson (Grand Rapids): 2 years of probation
- Kevin Lavelle Hunter II (Kalamazoo): 2 years of probation
Each defendant sentenced to prison will serve a period of supervised released after their custodial sentence. They have also been ordered to pay restitution to Bank of America depending on the amount of loss they were responsible for.