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   When police officers in South Carolina first met Quinae Shamyra   
   Stephens in the parking lot of a Family Dollar, she was driving   
   a stolen U-Haul van with her 23-year-old son in tow and 9 mm   
   handgun under the passenger seat, according to federal court   
   documents.   
      
   Inside the van, prosecutors said, police found stock paper for   
   printing checks, counterfeit driver’s licenses from four states   
   as well as debit and credit cards with mismatched account   
   numbers.   
      
   Now Stephens is facing more than 30 years behind bars.   
      
   A jury reached a guilty verdict on all counts against the 41-   
   year-old on April 7 after prosecutors accused her and her son,   
   Deandre Copes, of running a “multi-state identity theft and   
   fraud ring” partially out of the stolen van. The verdict was   
   reached at the end of a three-day jury trial — the first federal   
   criminal jury trial held in the Pee Dee region since the start   
   of the coronavirus pandemic, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the   
   District of South Carolina said in a news release.   
      
   The Pee Dee region encompasses about a dozen counties in   
   northeast South Carolina, including the town of Latta in Dillon   
   County, where Stephens and Copes first encountered law   
   enforcement in the stolen van in August 2021.   
      
   Copes pleaded guilty to bank and wire fraud charges in February   
   and is awaiting sentencing.   
      
   Public defenders and court-appointed attorneys representing the   
   pair did not immediately respond to McClatchy News’ request for   
   comment on Thursday, April 14.   
      
   According to an affidavit filed with the criminal complaint, the   
   Latta Police Department received a call about a suspicious   
   vehicle in the parking lot of a local Family Dollar around 1   
   p.m. on Aug. 26. Prosecutors said the van had taken several   
   trips back and forth between a bank and the Family Dollar.   
      
   When officers arrived, Stephens was behind the wheel with Copes   
   in the passenger seat of the van, which police soon learned had   
   been reported stolen in New Jersey, court documents state.   
      
   The mother and son were on a road trip from New Jersey to   
   Florida at the time, the government said. Both are from   
   Douglasville, Georgia, about 25 miles west of Atlanta.   
      
   Police searched the van, where investigators said they found the   
   loaded handgun, five tablet pills of fentanyl and four packages   
   of naloxone. They also found a printer and copier with blank   
   check stock paper inside, a box of blank check stock paper,   
   counterfeit and stolen driver’s licenses, counterfeit checks,   
   debit and credit cards with differing account numbers and a card   
   skimmer, court documents state.   
      
   Copes, when interviewed by federal investigators, said he knew   
   his mom was involved in some financial crimes but denied his own   
   involvement.   
      
   Prosecutors said the Secret Service looked into Stephens and   
   discovered she had been downloading instructions from the dark   
   web on how to commit credit card fraud and identity theft. She’s   
   also accused of buying software on the dark web to gain access   
   to personally identifiable information.   
      
   Stephens and Copes were charged by criminal complaint on Sept.   
   3. Court documents show a grand jury indicted them about three   
   weeks later.   
      
   Prosecutors said Stephens’ trial included more than 120 exhibits   
   entered into evidence and over a dozen witnesses and victims   
   from California, Minnesota, New Jersey, Tennessee, Florida,   
   Georgia and South Carolina. The jury ultimately found her guilty   
   on all six counts — including conspiracy to commit wire and bank   
   fraud, credit card fraud, identity theft, aggravated identity   
   theft, interstate transportation of a stolen vehicle, and felon   
   in possession of a firearm and ammunition.   
      
   A sentencing date has not been set. Stephens faces up to 30   
   years in prison and a $1 million fine on the conspiracy charges   
   as well as a mandatory two-year sentence on the aggravated   
   identity theft charge.   
      
   https://news.yahoo.com/mother-son-duo-ran-identity-184220452.html   
      
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