Aiexpress – The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of California said that Dewayne Morris Sr. and his son, Dewayne Morris Jr., were each given seven and twelve-and-a-half years in prison today for stealing $5.1 million in postal money order forms and giving them to other people who were involved in the crime.
As per the U.S. attorney’s office, Morris Sr. stole money order forms from the post office he was in charge of, and Morris Jr. gave the forms to other suspects.
Eight other people were sentenced before for turning stolen money orders into cash by depositing them in banks across the U.S., the office revealed.
The U.S. attorney’s office said that Morris Jr.’s co-conspirators said he gave them fake driver’s licenses and money orders so they could open bank accounts, pay the money orders, and get cash.
Along with the money orders, witnesses said that Morris Jr. went on trips out of state and kept most of the money. This was proven by airline records, which the department confirmed.
The office said that bank records showed Morris Jr. put more than $2 million in cash into his accounts while the plan was going on.
It was said by the U.S. attorney’s office that he bought expensive cars, like a Mercedes-Benz AMG GT, and took expensive trips to Costa Rica, Grand Cayman, and Los Cabos, Mexico.
The department also said that Morris Jr. was found guilty of dealing with witnesses while he was out on pretrial release.
The department also said that frightening text messages to a witness and videos of him trying to force the witness to say that he did not receive postal money orders were used as proof.
