‘Rambo’ scambo
200G ‘card fraud’
A crook named Rambo operated a credit-card scam with near-military precision, netting enough cash to pay for pricey goodies, including a Maserati, authorities said Friday.
Ramsey “Rambo” Sutton, a 23-year-old member of a Bloods offshoot gang, ran the $200,000 scheme for more than a year in five states, officials said. He was among 11 people indicted in the alleged scam this week.
The scam involved making fake cards with stolen personal information, then going on “extravagant shopping trips” at stores such as Sephora and Best Buy in Queens, Brooklyn, Long Island, New Jersey, Connecticut, Virginia and Maryland, according to a joint statement from the Queens DA’s Office and the NYPD.
Members of the ring created the fraudulent cards at the Queens home of Sutton cohort Jordan Clarke, 26, prosecutors said.
Investigators uncovered a massive cache during searches in Brooklyn, Queens and Sutton’s home- town of Ronkonkoma, LI.
They netted four firearms, 81 forged credit cards, 43 oxycodone pills, 25 morphine sulfate pills, a NYPDissued bullet-resistant vest panel, an expandable baton, a USB drive containing instruction manuals on creating the forged cards — and templates, reader-writer devices, an embossing machine and an imprinter for the cards, prosecutors said.
A Maserati, BMW, G35 Infiniti, Ford Mustang and a Jeep were also seized in the raids, the DA’s office said.
Eight of the suspects were arraigned Thursday on a 139-count indictment charging them with criminal possession of stolen property, grand larceny, criminal possession of a forged instrument, conspiracy, petit larceny and falsifying business records, the statement said.
Of the three remaining suspects, one is in custody out of state on a separate criminal matter and two are being sought.
The alleged scheme began in October 2016 and ended this past April.