Two Las Vegas men were convicted Friday by a Pennsylvania jury on charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, posing as distressed grandchildren in phone calls to get money from the victims.
Following a five-day trial in Pittsburgh federal court, a jury convicted two Las Vegas men of defrauding elderly residents in Western Pennsylvania and elsewhere. Roderick Feurtado, 56, and Tarek Bouanane, 47, of Las Vegas and evidence at trial established that they traveled to the Pittsburgh area in September 2021 intending