New York Post

‘Rambo’ scambo

200G ‘card fraud’

- By LARRY CELONA

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.

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