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Cabbie dressed in wig, padded breasts, bilked drunken D.C. chumps out of $220k
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Date: August 06, 2014 12:28AM
Fake cabbie dressed in wig, padded breasts bilked drunken D.C. fares of $220k
By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times - Monday, August 4, 2014
He dressed in a wig and fake padded breasts and cruised popular D.C. nightlife spots on the prowl for drunken people he could rob.
Nyerere Mitchell promised revelers rides home inside his Range Rover and would whisk his passengers to drive-through ATMs and use their bank cards to withdraw cash — money they thought would cover their cab fares. But often, Mitchell took much more.
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The U.S. attorney’s office for the District announced Monday that Mitchell, 50, pleaded guilty to five counts of felony fraud and admitted to stealing more than $220,000 through his scheme.
From April 2008 through November, prosecutors say, Mitchell conned at least 60 people through the scheme by pretending to be a taxicab driver.
Prosecutors said he often donned a women’s wig and wore fake breasts as a disguise and that many of his victims thought they had been robbed by a woman.
Mitchell would drive through areas such as Dupont Circle, Adams Morgan and Foggy Bottom to pick up passengers who were often drunk young adults. He would pull up to drive-through ATMs where the machine was on the driver’s side of the car, and then persuade passengers to hand over their debit cards and tell him their pin numbers so he could withdraw cash for them. But Mitchell often withdrew hundreds of dollars instead of the $10 or $40 fares his passengers believed they were being charged.
After the transaction, Mitchell often would keep a passenger’s debit card and switch it with another from a stash of stolen cards he had amassed. Prosecutors said he collected so many bank cards that he could hand his victim a card that looked similar to the one he just used. He would use the latest victim’s card for several days to make purchases or to buy money orders that he would deposit into his account.
When police arrested Mitchell late last year, prosecutors said, they found 205 stolen credit cards stored in a shoe box in his home, as well as the wig he was seen wearing in a bank surveillance video from one of the thefts.
Judge Milton C. Lee ordered Mitchell held until sentencing.
By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times - Monday, August 4, 2014
He dressed in a wig and fake padded breasts and cruised popular D.C. nightlife spots on the prowl for drunken people he could rob.
Nyerere Mitchell promised revelers rides home inside his Range Rover and would whisk his passengers to drive-through ATMs and use their bank cards to withdraw cash — money they thought would cover their cab fares. But often, Mitchell took much more.
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The U.S. attorney’s office for the District announced Monday that Mitchell, 50, pleaded guilty to five counts of felony fraud and admitted to stealing more than $220,000 through his scheme.
From April 2008 through November, prosecutors say, Mitchell conned at least 60 people through the scheme by pretending to be a taxicab driver.
Prosecutors said he often donned a women’s wig and wore fake breasts as a disguise and that many of his victims thought they had been robbed by a woman.
Mitchell would drive through areas such as Dupont Circle, Adams Morgan and Foggy Bottom to pick up passengers who were often drunk young adults. He would pull up to drive-through ATMs where the machine was on the driver’s side of the car, and then persuade passengers to hand over their debit cards and tell him their pin numbers so he could withdraw cash for them. But Mitchell often withdrew hundreds of dollars instead of the $10 or $40 fares his passengers believed they were being charged.
After the transaction, Mitchell often would keep a passenger’s debit card and switch it with another from a stash of stolen cards he had amassed. Prosecutors said he collected so many bank cards that he could hand his victim a card that looked similar to the one he just used. He would use the latest victim’s card for several days to make purchases or to buy money orders that he would deposit into his account.
When police arrested Mitchell late last year, prosecutors said, they found 205 stolen credit cards stored in a shoe box in his home, as well as the wig he was seen wearing in a bank surveillance video from one of the thefts.
Judge Milton C. Lee ordered Mitchell held until sentencing.
Re: Cabbie dressed in wig, padded breasts, bilked drunken D.C. chumps out of $220k
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Date: August 06, 2014 04:53AM
A fifty year old dressed up as women and in a wig. Damn that still would be one ugly ugly, but if you drunk you probably can't tell. Go reason to stop drinking.
You know it got to be drunk whites, whites are the only one stupid enough to fall for shit like this drunk or not. Need to arrest the 205 white victim for being just stupid and contributing to a crime.
Damn shame on my white race.
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You know it got to be drunk whites, whites are the only one stupid enough to fall for shit like this drunk or not. Need to arrest the 205 white victim for being just stupid and contributing to a crime.
Damn shame on my white race.
Never Run Out of Ammo
Guns Don't Kill People. People Kill People
Them or You
The two most important days in your life are the day your were born and and the day you find out why