By: Yuritza Arroyo
An Essex County man was sentenced today to 82 months in prison and three years of supervised release and ordered to pay $330,391 in restitution for his role in scheming with at least one U.S. Postal Service (USPS) employee and others to steal credit cards from the mail and then steal victims’ identities in order to use the stolen cards to make hundreds of thousands of dollars of retail and online purchases.
Dashaun Brown, 29, of Newark, was convicted on April 22, 2022, on four counts of the superseding indictment against him:
Conspiracy to commit bank fraud, bank fraud, receipt and possession of stolen mail, and aggravated identity theft in connection with bank fraud.
According to court documents following that weeklong trial in Newark federal court, Brown – along with conspirators Jahad Salter and Hakir Brown – engaged the USPS employees, including Khadijah Banks-Oneal, to steal credit cards from the mail in exchange for compensation.
Salter, Brown, and Banks-Oneal previously pleaded guilty for their roles..
In November, Salter was sentenced to 60 months in prison, while Brown was sentenced to 31 months behind bars.
