{"id":29557,"date":"2020-10-30T10:29:33","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T15:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=29557"},"modified":"2020-10-30T10:29:33","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T15:29:33","slug":"east-bay-ca-residents-charged-with-mail-fraud-conspiracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2020\/10\/30\/east-bay-ca-residents-charged-with-mail-fraud-conspiracy\/","title":{"rendered":"East Bay, CA Residents Charged With Mail Fraud Conspiracy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Defendants Alleged to Adopt Identities of Recently Deceased People to Steal Funds and Open Accounts<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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OAKLAND \u2013 10\/29\/20 – Dayna Lynn Alexander, also known as Dayna Lyn Huntsman, and Alicia Amanda Roberts, also known as Alicia Roberts Canal, have been charged in a criminal complaint with an alleged conspiracy to commit mail fraud, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and United States Postal Inspection Service San Francisco Division Inspector in Charge Rafael Nunez. Alexander made her initial federal court appearance today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Nathanael M. Cousins.<\/p>\n

According to the affidavit filed with the criminal complaint, Alexander, 47, of Vallejo and San Pablo, reviewed obituaries in order to identify individuals who had recently suffered \u201csudden deaths.\u201d\u00a0 Alexander would then find their personal identifying information from online sources and use that information to place holds on their U.S. Postal Service mail and to change their mailing addresses.\u00a0 Alexander would cause checks and debit cards to be mailed from the victims\u2019 accounts, and she would obtain them from the victims\u2019 new mailing address.\u00a0 Alexander also opened bank accounts using the victims\u2019 information.\u00a0 She and her co-conspirators would deposit funds into these accounts and write checks to themselves from the accounts.\u00a0 Alexander would then assume yet another victim\u2019s identity in order to obtain and spend those funds.<\/p>\n

Alexander and her co-conspirators, including Roberts, 41, of San Pablo, would also use the victims\u2019 legitimate credit cards and other online payment accounts, including PayPal, to make purchases at Amazon and other vendors.\u00a0 Roberts assumed one victim\u2019s identity in order to rent storage units in which Alexander and Roberts stored stolen access devices and counterfeit identification cards as well as stolen mail and financial documents in the names of the victims.<\/p>\n

While incarcerated in county facilities, Alexander continued to identify potential victims and relayed that information to Roberts.\u00a0 Alexander discussed using the deceased victims as potential sureties for bail bonds in order to secure her release from custody.\u00a0 Alexander also drafted a handwritten guide to educate others on how to commit the fraud scheme, which she mailed to a co-conspirator.<\/p>\n

Alexander and Roberts are charged with conspiracy to commit mail fraud, in violation of 18 U.S.C. \u00a7 1349.\u00a0 If convicted, they will face a maximum statutory sentence of 20 years.\u00a0 However, any sentence following conviction would be imposed by the court only after consideration of the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and the federal statute governing the imposition of a sentence, 18 U.S.C. \u00a7 3553.<\/p>\n

Alexander is scheduled to appear before Magistrate Judge Virginia K. DeMarchi on November 5, 2020, at 10:30 a.m., for a detention hearing.<\/p>\n

Alicia Amanda Roberts, who is also known as Alicia Roberts Canal, has not been arrested nor made an initial appearance.\u00a0 Anyone with information regarding her location is encouraged to contact the U.S. Postal Inspection Service.<\/p>\n

The charges contained in the criminal complaint are mere allegations.\u00a0 As in any criminal case, the defendants are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty in a court of law.<\/p>\n

Assistant U.S. Attorney Samantha Bennett is prosecuting the case with the assistance of Jessica Rodriguez Gonzalez.\u00a0 The prosecution is the result of an investigation by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, the U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General, and the Danville Police Department.<\/p>\n

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Defendants Alleged to Adopt Identities of Recently Deceased People to Steal Funds and Open Accounts OAKLAND \u2013 10\/29\/20 – Dayna Lynn Alexander, also known as Dayna Lyn Huntsman, and Alicia Amanda Roberts, also known as Alicia Roberts Canal, have been charged in a criminal complaint with an alleged conspiracy to commit mail fraud, announced United […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-theftandfraud","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29559,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29557\/revisions\/29559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}