BALTIMORE — An investigation performed by Homeland Safety Investigations (HSI) Baltimore and the Baltimore County Police Division has landed a Texas resident in federal jail for 2 years, adopted by three years of supervised launch, for conspiracy to commit interstate transportation of stolen items. Robert Reeves III, 37, of Dallas, acquired the sentence March 28 for breaking into companies and stealing money from bitcoin-related automated teller machines. As a part of his sentence, Reeves should additionally pay restitution within the full quantity of the victims’ losses, which totals greater than $55,000.
In keeping with the investigation, from August 2018 by means of at the very least mid-September 2013, Reeves, co-defendants Meleech Neugent and Brandon Davis, and different people conspired to journey from the Dallas space to different components of the US, together with the Washington, D.C. metropolitan space to interrupt into companies after they closed and steal money from bitcoin-related ATMs.
“Robert Reeves and his co-conspirators got here to Maryland from Texas and robbed 4 native companies of their cash, then proceeded to take footage and brag about their crimes,” mentioned HSI Baltimore Particular Agent in Cost James C. Harris. “HSI Baltimore, with vital help from the Baltimore County Police Division, labored collectively to place an finish to their thievery. HSI Baltimore is proud to have labored with our native companions on this case, and we are going to proceed to take action to make sure Maryland residents and companies stay protected from thieves like Reeves.”
In keeping with the HSI Baltimore investigation, on Aug. 29, 2018, Reeves, his co-defendants and others traveled from Dallas to Dulles Worldwide Airport and rented a automobile. Within the early morning hours of Aug. 31, 2018, and Sept. 1, 2018, they used the rented automobile to drive to areas in Rockville, Columbia and Baltimore, the place they broke into 4 separate companies. As soon as contained in the enterprise, the conspirators stole money from ATMs.
Video surveillance from the housebreaking areas confirmed three people dedicated the acts, arriving and departing in a black Jeep Patriot with New Jersey license plates. The investigation confirmed that the automobile was owned by a automotive rental firm and that Reeves and his co-conspirators had rented it at Dulles Worldwide Airport.
The investigation additional revealed that information related to Reeves’ web and cellular phone accounts indicated that he looked for every sufferer’s enterprise whereas he and his co-conspirators had been in Maryland. On September 1, Reeves and different co-conspirators visited a shopping mall in Tysons Nook, Virginia.
A video posted to co-defendant Neugent’s social media confirmed Neugent counting bundles of money whereas buying sneakers at a high-end designer retail retailer. Reeves and a few co-conspirators returned to Texas, flying from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Reeves admitted that on August 23, 2018, he participated in an identical housebreaking in Elgin, Illinois. Particularly, Reeves and one other man approached a enterprise there whereas carrying prying instruments. One man pried open the door and the lads then pried open the ATM contained in the enterprise, eradicating roughly $3,000 from it.
Neugent, 40, and Davis, 35, each of Dallas, beforehand pleaded responsible to their roles within the conspiracy. Neugent was sentenced to time served and Davis is scheduled to be sentenced on Could 31.
This investigation was performed by HSI Baltimore and the Baltimore County Police Division with vital help from the U.S. Lawyer’s Workplace for the District of Maryland.
HSI encourages members of the general public with data of any such prison exercise to contact HSI by calling the HSI tip line at 866-347-2423. The tip line is manned 24 hours a day.
HSI is the principal investigative arm of the U.S. Division of Homeland Safety (DHS), chargeable for investigating transnational crime and threats, particularly these prison organizations that exploit the worldwide infrastructure by means of which worldwide commerce, journey and finance transfer. HSI’s workforce of greater than 8,700 workers consists of greater than 6,000 particular brokers assigned to 237 cities all through the US, and 93 abroad areas in 56 nations. HSI’s worldwide presence represents DHS’s largest investigative regulation enforcement presence overseas and one of many largest worldwide footprints in U.S. regulation enforcement.