On Jan. 25, 2019, Chief Judge Jon D. Levy sentenced Trim to 40 months in prison and 3 years of supervised release for using a counterfeit credit card, possessing 15 or more counterfeit credit cards and conspiracy to commit credit card fraud. Trim was also ordered to pay over $23,000 in restitution. Yesterday, Chief Judge Levy sentenced Singh to 11 months in prison and 3 years of supervised release for using a counterfeit credit card and possessing 15 or more counterfeit credit cards. The Court deferred for 90 days its determination about the amount of restitution Singh will be ordered to pay. Trim pled guilty on June 21, 2018. Singh pled guilty on May 11, 2018.
Court records reveal that between November 2016 and February 2017, Trim and Singh conspired to commit credit card fraud. On January 6, 2017, officers from the Windham Police Department conducted a traffic stop of a car occupied by Trim and Singh. Inside the car, the officers found a black toiletry bag containing over 160 credit cards, many of which were counterfeit. Subsequent investigation revealed that both men had used counterfeit credit cards to make purchases at a Hannaford Store in North Windham. On Feb. 16, 2017, law enforcement executed a search warrant at a residence in Stoughton, Massachusetts, that was occupied by Trim and Singh. The police seized from the residence over 500 counterfeit credit cards, materials used for manufacturing counterfeit credit cards, nearly $7,000 in cash, and laptop computers and a thumb drive that contained credit card data.
This case was investigated by the U.S. Secret Service, the Windham and Biddeford, Maine Police Departments, and the Stoughton, Massachusetts Police Department.
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Source: U.S. Secret Service