Alabama Man Sentenced to 60 Months in Multi-State Bank Fraud Scheme
Eddarrius Tyjuan Wallace, 37, of York, Alabama, was sentenced to 60 months in prison and fined $25,000 for his role in a scheme involving U.S. Treasury checks.
4 reports on this incident · first at Aug 19, 2026, 4:23 p.m. ET
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Aug 24, 2026, 7:29 p.m. ET
Alabama Man Sentenced to 60 Months in Multi-State Bank Fraud Scheme
Eddarrius Tyjuan Wallace, 37, of York, Alabama, was sentenced on August 19, 2026, to 60 months in prison and fined $25,000, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. Wallace had been charged with conspiracy to commit bank fraud and bank fraud.
According to the U.S. Attorney's Office, Wallace organized and managed the scheme between June and September 2023, recruiting and training other participants to fraudulently deposit and withdraw funds from U.S. Treasury checks in Alabama and Mississippi.
The case was investigated by the U.S. Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, the Mississippi Attorney General's Office, and the Madison Police Department.
Aug 24, 2026, 7:26 p.m. ET
Alabama Man Sentenced to 60 Months in Multi-State Bank Fraud Scheme
Eddarrius Tyjuan Wallace, 37, of York, Alabama, was sentenced on August 19, 2026, to 60 months in prison and fined $25,000, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. The sentence was announced on August 24, 2026, by abc3340.com.
Wallace pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bank fraud and bank fraud. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Wallace organized and managed the scheme between June and September 2023, recruiting and training other participants to fraudulently deposit and withdraw funds from U.S. Treasury checks in Alabama and Mississippi.
The case was investigated by the U.S. Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, the Mississippi Attorney General’s Office, and the Madison Police Department.
Aug 19, 2026, 4:23 p.m. ETFirst report
Texas Man Sentenced to 70 Months for Bank Fraud Conspiracy
According to official documents from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Nebraska announced on August 19, 2026, 20-year-old Khalil Robinson of Pearland, Texas, was sentenced on August 13, 2026, in federal court in Omaha, Nebraska, for conspiracy to commit bank fraud. United States District Judge Robert F. Rossiter, Jr. sentenced Robinson to 70 months' imprisonment, followed by a 10-year term of supervised release, and ordered him to pay $147,520.20 in restitution to identified victims. There is no parole in the federal system. Official records state that between February 2024 and April 2025, Robinson and others conspired to steal mail from U.S. Postal Service blue collection boxes around the United States. Checks taken from the stolen mail were resold on Telegram or altered and deposited into bank accounts created by individuals recruited into the conspiracy. In September 2024, USPS inspectors received reports of mail placed in blue collection boxes at the Elmwood Post Office and Saddle Creek Post Office in Omaha not arriving at its destination, while the Lincoln, Nebraska postmaster reported multiple blue boxes pried into and arrow lock keys stolen throughout Lincoln. On January 13, 2025, Omaha police officers found Robinson in possession of stolen mail and recovered a counterfeit key from a blue collection box he broke into, according to the official report. Postal inspectors found evidence on Robinson's phone and social media accounts of manufacturing arrow lock keys, recruiting individuals to open bank accounts, and images of checks from Nebraska, Virginia, and Kentucky totaling $167,000. Postal inspectors attributed approximately $1,968,868 in total check value to the conspiracy, with an actual loss of $813,458. The case was investigated by the United States Postal Inspection Service.
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