2 men, according to Chandler Police officials, have been arrested in connection of a kidnapping fraud scheme that cost the alleged victims over $40,000 in total.
Chandler Police officials say they have arrested 2 men in connection with a fraud scheme involving multiple alleged victims.Here are the details on the case.The suspects were identified in court documents as Raul Roque Reyes and Julio Angel Paulino Rosario.Court documents, however, did note that the two are not U.S. citizens, and currently live in New York City.
"[Officers] also learned after the [rideshare] driver had delivered the envelope, he was confronted by two males later identified as Julio Angel Paulino Rosario and Raul Roque Reyes," read a portion of the court documents. A police officer, according to investigators, saw a large amount of cash in the center console of the vehicle the suspects were in, after one of the suspects asked the officer if he could get his cell phone from inside the vehicle. A search warrant was later obtained, and during the search, officers found large amounts of cash, as well as envelopes with the names of three other alleged victims inside the vehicle.
"When we contacted the victims, they verified they were scammed in a similar fashion to the first victim," investigators wrote, in court documents.Investigators said during their interview with Rosario, Rosario said that he, along with Reyes, were instructed by someone from the Dominican Republic to pick up the envelopes from drivers at various locations."[Rosario] said they had no idea what was in the packages.
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