The Justice Department issued the following statement.
A Jackson man was sentenced to 26 months in prison for conspiracy to commit bank fraud and aggravated identity theft.
According to court documents and statements made in court, Anthony Craig Myrick, 45, of Jackson opened an account at BankPlus in September 2022 using someone else’s identity. He received several $500 checks he knew to be counterfeit United States Treasury checks from his co-defendant, Ronald Gardner. Gardner and Myrick deposited several counterfeit United States Treasury checks in the account at various BankPlus branches in the Jackson metro area and withdrew the cash before the checks were determined to be counterfeit. Myrick was ordered to pay restitution to BankPlus as part of his sentence.
Ronald Gardner and Anthony Myrick were indicted by a federal grand jury on August 22, 2023. Myrick pleaded guilty on October 17, 2023, and Gardner pleaded guilty on February 2, 2024. Gardner is scheduled to be sentenced on May 2, 2024, and faces a maximum penalty of 32 years in prison. A federal district judge will determine any sentence after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.
U.S. Attorney Todd W. Gee of the Southern District of Mississippi and U.S. Secret Service Special Agent in Charge Patrick Davis made the announcement.
The U.S. Secret Service and Rankin County Sheriff’s Office investigated the case.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Kimberly T. Purdie is prosecuting the case.
Kingfish note: Gardner posted this little message on Facebook.
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10 comments:
Not your typical high-school dropout or Jax Prep grad. Millsaps?
Gardener is the one who hasn’t been sentenced? And he posted that?
Sending instructions from jail. What a genius. After all, this was the bank’s fault.
So, where do you get counterfeit United States Treasury checks that look good enough to deposit?
Asking for a friend.
He's not exactly trying to win the sympathy of the judge in the hope of a lighter sentence, now, is he? LOL
Love that logic. If I see keys in an unoccupied car, I can just take it. It's the owners fault.
Defendant Gardner's solicitation could be better, probably needs at least one "I am not a lawyer."
Unless he is a lawyer.
"The software is 100% legal"...
So were most of the guns used to commit gun crimes.
It's not the tool in most cases, it's what the defendant does with it what sends them to the lockup.
He can do 26-months in a Club Fed playing golf and then retrieve the million$ that he stashed away.
If only guys like this spent their time in non-criminal productive IT activities, our country would be a better place.
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