Credit card scammer to serve five years
GUILDERLAND — A Brooklyn man was sentenced this week in Albany County Court for a credit card scam after being arrested in November 2014 on Interstate 90 in the town of Guilderland.
On Nov. 17, 2014, Kahlil Ramsey, 20, and three codefendants, were stopped, by New York State Police, for speeding on Interstate 90. They had fraudulent credit and debit cards, according to a press release from Albany County District Attorney David Soares’s office.
Between the four of them, they had 30 different fraudulent cards, as well as iPods, iPads, and other electronic devices that had been purchased by using the cards at Best Buy, the release said.
An investigation was conducted by the New York State Police and the United States Secret Service.
On Aug. 7, Ramsey pleaded guilty to one count of second-degree criminal possession of a forged instrument, a felony, and one count of fifth-degree conspiracy, a misdemeanor, the release said.
On Wednesday, he was sentenced to two-and-a-half to five years in state prison for criminal possession of a forged instrument, and a concurrent sentence of one year for conspiracy, in front of Judge Stephen Herrick.
Financial Crimes Unit Bureau Chief Daniel Lynch prosecuted the case.