A federal judge has sentenced a second man in a 2022 scheme that involved stealing checks from mailboxes in southern Maine.
Rasheed Colbert, 33, of Atlanta, Georgia, was sentenced to 10 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $69,744 in restitution.
Colbert pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit bank fraud on May 30.
A co-conspirator, Mantavious Jones, 36, also of Atlanta, was sentenced in August 2023 to 16 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for his role in the scheme.
In March 2022, Colbert and co-conspirators, including Jones, stole checks out of the mailboxes of southern Maine businesses then used the checks to create counterfeit checks, according to court records cited by the U.S. Department of Justice in a news release.
The counterfeit checks were made payable to homeless people Colbert and others recruited to cash them. Colbert and his co-conspirators collected nearly $70,000 from the cashed counterfeit checks, according to the DOJ.
