![[CREDIT: Rob Borkowski] The U.S. Court in Providence. Tuesday, a Johnston man was sentenced to 2.5 years for leading a Land Rover credit fraud scheme in RI & NH.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/US-Courthouse-336x252.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
PROVIDENCE, RI — A Johnson man who admitted main a Land Rover credit score fraud conspiracy utilizing stolen identities to finance SUVs from the Warwick Land Rover Dealership and one in New Hampshire has been sentenced to 2.5 years in federal jail.
Performing United States Legal professional Sara Miron Bloom introduced the sentencing of Dennis Odoom, 27, who had beforehand admitted to a federal choose that he enlisted others to hitch the conspiracy.
Land Rover Credit score Fraud Scheme in RI & NH
Odoom additionally admitted that he offered a co-conspirator with a fraudulent ID and that he drove that individual to a dealership in New Hampshire to select up a Land Rover valued at $96,256, bought with fraudulently obtained credit score. The individual accompanying him was anticipating to be paid $2,000 by Odoom.
Moreover, court docket paperwork allege that fraudulently obtained financing was utilized by co-conspirators to buy a Land Rover from the Rhode Island dealership at 1346 Bald Hill Rd, Warwick. The ultimate gross sales value for the automobile and financing was $111,183.
Odoom was sentenced Wednesday by U.S. District Court docket Decide Melissa R. Dubose to a time period of 30 months of incarceration to be adopted by three years of supervised launch. He was ordered to pay a tremendous of $1,000. Restitution will probably be decided by the court docket at a later date. Odoom pleaded responsible on Dec. 12, 2024, to costs of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and aggravated identification theft.
A co-defendant within the Land Rover credit score fraud scheme, Roy Sweets, 27, of Pawtucket, pleaded guilty on March 18, 2025, to a cost of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. He’s scheduled to be sentenced on June 10, 2025.
A 3rd defendant in Land Rover credit score fraud scheme , Adalberto Mauricio Romero, 28, of Windfall, is charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and aggravated identification theft.
The circumstances are being prosecuted by Assistant United States Legal professional Paul F. Daly, Jr.
The matter was investigated by Warwick Police and the Bedford, NH, Police Division, Homeland Safety Investigations, and the Division of Labor Workplace of Inspector Basic.
