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PORTLAND The driver of a van that carried three Bronx men to several Maine Home Depot stores including Auburn in an effort to defraud the stores was sentenced to time-served behind bars.
Mickey Augusto Mejia Rosario of the Bronx, New York.
Androscoggin County Jail
A U.S. District Court judge last week sentenced Mickey Augusto Mejia Rosario, 25, of New York on a charge of conspiracy to possess a fraudulent access device to the one day on which he was arrested and booked at Androscoggin County Jail in Auburn, plus three years on supervised release.
Rosario had been facing up to five years in prison and up to a $250,000 fine for the felony.
During that sentencing, Woodcock referred to Reyes as the “ringleader” of the trio, explaining that he had covered the travel expenses and provided the false identities used in the fraud.
The third defendant, Mickey Augusto Mejia-Rosario, 24, has pleaded guilty to the same charge and is scheduled to be sentenced next month.
Prosecutors said the trio had sought to defraud the big-box chain stores by opening store credit card accounts using driver’s license information belonging to deceased people.
They were arrested in Auburn on Nov. 26, 2019, by local police after failing to make purchases at self-checkout stations at the Home Depot store on Mount Auburn Avenue using recently obtained store credit.