Three Philadelphia Residents Charged with Conspiring to Steal Debit and Credit Card Numbers
| U.S. Attorney’s Office August 13, 2009 |
United States Attorney Michael L. Levy today announced the filing of an indictment against Abdul Cunningham, a/k/a “James Walker,” a/k/a “Duley,” Jacqueline V. Young, and Tommy Nguyen, charging that from January 2008, to May 2009, they conspired to steal people’s credit and debit card numbers and then used them to buy merchandise, gift cards, and other things of value. The indictment charges that, together, these defendants stole between 200 and 500 credit card numbers from customers of the restaurants where Young and Nguyen worked; Cunningham used equipment to encode the stolen numbers onto other credit, debit, and white plastic cards in the defendants’ possession; and the defendants then shopped at retail stores and restaurants in Philadelphia and elsewhere.
INFORMATION REGARDING THE DEFENDANTS
| NAME | ADDRESS | YEAR OF BIRTH |
| Abdul Cunningham a/k/a “James Walker,” a/k/a “Duley” |
Philadelphia, PA | 1971 |
| Jacqueline V. Young | Philadelphia, PA | 1985 |
| Tommy Nguyen | Philadelphia, PA | 1988 |
If convicted, the defendants face a maximum possible sentence of five years’ imprisonment on the conspiracy count charged in Count One, 10 years on the access device counts charged in Counts Two through Four, 15 years on the access device fraud count charged in Count Five, and a two-year mandatory minimum sentence on each count of aggravated identity theft charged in Counts Six through Forty.
The case was investigated by the United States Secret Service, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Cheltenham Township Police Department, the Delaware County Criminal Investigative Division, and the Ridley Township Police Department, and is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Nancy E. Potts.