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Old 09-30-2017, 06:17 AM
 
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A 29-year-old bank teller stole more than $185,000 from a homeless customer who tried to deposit a garbage bag full of cash at a Wells Fargo branch in Georgetown, according to court filings and attorneys in the case.


In a deal with prosecutors, Phelon Davis of District Heights, Md., pleaded guilty Thursday to one federal felony count of interstate transportation of stolen property, punishable by up to 10 years in prison.


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Old 09-30-2017, 09:00 AM
 
Location: Fountain Valley Ca.
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Was curious to find out where a homeless guy might have gotten a garbage bag full of cash so I clicked the link. Nope, pay wall.
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Old 09-30-2017, 01:01 PM
 
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Was curious to find out where a homeless guy might have gotten a garbage bag full of cash so I clicked the link. Nope, pay wall.
Washington Post allows you to read like 6 articles before giving the paywall crap. They do this with cookies. IF you are using Firefox or a browser that gives you easy access to individual cookies, you can DELETE just the cookies for their site, and keep reading all you want.

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Georgetown bank teller stole $185,000 from homeless customer with garbage bag of cash

By Spencer S. Hsu September 29 at 6:30 AM



A 29-year-old bank teller stole more than $185,000 from a homeless customer who tried to deposit a garbage bag full of cash at a Wells Fargo branch in Georgetown, according to court filings and attorneys in the case.
In a deal with prosecutors, Phelon Davis of District Heights, Md., pleaded guilty Thursday to one federal felony count of interstate transportation of stolen property, punishable by up to 10 years in prison.
The victim was unnamed in court filings but was described as a homeless street vendor and longtime Wells Fargo customer who had more than one account that had gone dormant because of a lack of activity.
Court filings did not identify the customer or say why a homeless person would have a large amount of cash in a bag when he showed up at the M Street NW branch where Davis worked. Outside the courtroom, Davis’s attorney, Bruce Allen Johnson Jr., said he also did not know how the individual came to have the cache of cash. “That’s the million-dollar question,” Johnson said.
In plea papers, Davis acknowledged that the customer had “thousands of dollars of cash” that he wanted to deposit in October 2014, but he lacked identification. Davis told the customer where to get ID documents and a Social Security card, and also noted the customer “had a surprisingly large balance with the bank,” according to a signed, three-page statement of the crime.


On two consecutive days that October, Davis fraudulently opened a new account by forging the customer’s signature, set up an ATM card, personal identification number, email address and online logon that Davis controlled, and funded the account with $3,000 from one of the customer’s other accounts, according to the court filing.


Over the next two years, the filing disclosed, Davis transferred $177,400 between the customer’s accounts, withdrew $185,440, and transported at least $5,000 from automated teller machines in the District across state lines to his home in Maryland, the basis of the federal charge.
The customer did not receive mailed statements, use email or have access to a computer and so remained oblivious. The customer could see the balance of only one of the checking accounts at an ATM, Davis and prosecutors agreed.
Davis used the stolen money for the down payment on his home, to pay off personal debt, and to fund vacations in Aruba, Jamaica, the Dominican Republic and Mexico.
Court documents did not say how Davis was caught. He was charged July 19.
As part of his plea, Davis agreed to pay back the stolen money, and Assistant U.S. Attorney Kondi J. Kleinman said he would likely face a sentence of 18 to 30 months under federal guidelines. U.S. District Judge Emmett G. Sullivan of the District would be free to go higher or lower.

“Did you, in fact, take money from an account as Mr. Kleinman described?” U.S. Magistrate Robin M. Meriweather asked in the Thursday plea hearing.
“Yes, ma’am, I did,” said the soft-spoken Davis.
Davis’s attorney, Johnson, said outside of court that “he greatly regrets the decisions he made and is dedicated to doing everything he can to make it right, including restitution. He is putting everything aside to repay the money and do what he can to repair what he’s done to his name, his reputation and to the victim.”
A sentencing date has not been set.
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Old 09-30-2017, 01:56 PM
 
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Phelon Davis = Felon Davis

The bank must have eventually accepted the homeless guy's cash, even though the story doesn't clarify that.

He probably kept his cash in a garbage bag because he didn't trust banks. How right he was!

The news stories I've seen don't say how the charges moved forward. Did Wells Fargo find it during their purge of fake accounts? Or did the homeless guy eventually ask where his money was?

Seems like there's a really interesting back story here, I'd love to know what it is.
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Old 10-01-2017, 04:11 AM
 
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Phelon Davis = Felon Davis

The bank must have eventually accepted the homeless guy's cash, even though the story doesn't clarify that.

He probably kept his cash in a garbage bag because he didn't trust banks. How right he was!

The news stories I've seen don't say how the charges moved forward. Did Wells Fargo find it during their purge of fake accounts? Or did the homeless guy eventually ask where his money was?

Seems like there's a really interesting back story here, I'd love to know what it is.

So far neither Wells Fargo, LE nor the persons involved are saying how the theft was discovered. However the bank employee was stealing during the same period Wells Fargo employees were opening "fake" accounts. So maybe things turned up once that story broke and audits were begun.
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Old 10-01-2017, 04:13 AM
 
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Was curious to find out where a homeless guy might have gotten a garbage bag full of cash so I clicked the link. Nope, pay wall.
All you had to do was "Google" or otherwise search the internet for "Phelon Davis" and pages of hits would have been returned on this story.



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Link works fine for me; try clearing your cache and or setting your browser to reject cookies or ask permission, especially third party.

https://www.google.com/search?q=Phel...ih=578&dpr=1.5
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Old 10-01-2017, 04:56 AM
 
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He probably found it, e.g cops are chasing someone down the road and they toss the bag of money and drugs out the window when the cops can't see them. If it's drug money it will be untraceable and cannot be claimed. It will be his after X days.
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Old 10-01-2017, 07:31 AM
 
Location: Fountain Valley Ca.
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Sorry, I've been running into paywall sites a lot recently, and so I was just a little annoyed at the time of my reply.
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