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Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan and Cambridge Police Commissioner Brent Larrabee today announced that two Brooklyn males were arraigned today in Cambridge District Court and charged with Larceny Over $250 by a single scheme in conjunction with a coordinated Cambridge Police investigation of “card cracking.” Judge Dominic Paratore ordered both defendants held on $300,000 bail.
Delon St. Louis, 23, Brooklyn, NY and Darren Zamor, 21, Brooklyn, NY, were arrested on Friday afternoon by the Cambridge Police after a lengthy investigation into schemes that have targeted bank accounts in the Greater Boston area. The total amount of U.S. currency and checks seized during the arrest and following a search of the seized motor vehicle was nearly $26,000.
Since at least April 2016, the defendants allegedly deposited counterfeit checks into banking accounts belonging to third parties who willingly or unwillingly surrendered their debit cards and PIN numbers for use in the cracking cards schemes. As part of this ongoing investigation, the Cambridge Police Department’s Criminal Investigations Section is attempting to locate additional individuals who may have been involved in the financial scam. The scam would have involved a victim relinquishing their debit card and PIN number to an individual claiming to be from a Financial Services Company, who was looking to test and improve their money order operations. Account holders were told that they would be paid half of all money orders negotiated through their account. The accounts would then be used for fraudulent activity.
If you feel that you may have been victimized by this scam, please contact Detective Brian O’Connor of the Cambridge Police Department’s Criminal Investigations Section at 617-349-9307 or boconnor@cambridgepolice.org.
The next scheduled hearing in this case is February 22, 2017.
These charges are allegations and the defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty.
The prosecutor assigned to today’s arraignment was Assistant District Attorney is April O’Brien.
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