Man From Bahamas Detained For $1.2M Credit Card Fraud Searched Fake Passports In Queens
Stumbled on this strange case at the detention hearing stage, found the US Attorney's office redacting its own filings - and will continue to report on it.
By Matthew Russell Lee, PatreonPodcast
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SDNY COURTHOUSE, Feb 4 – Kevin Dion Rolle, a citizen of the Bahamas, was arrested in Puerto Rico on charges related to a credit card "bust out" scheme under which using different names he ran up charges over $1.2 million.
On February 4, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York Judge Alison J. Nathan held a detention hearing, and Inner City Press covered it.
Rolle was described as living, prior to arrest and now detention in Essex County Correctional Facility, with his husband Mr. Stefon Hall in Manhattan, and traveling down to Florida to meet with his triplets from his now-deceased wife, brought up from the Bahamas by his mother.
When Rolle was stopped and questioned on June 4, 2020 in the Dallas / Fort Worth International Airport, he had a credit card in the name of his mother, Joan Marie Rolle, who had used Royal Bank of Canada account statements in support of the card.
Some $481,517 in charges were run up on the card.
Rolle's Criminal Justice Act lawyer on February 4 argued for release on $250,000 bond, and noted among other things that the U.S. Bureau of Prisons appeared not to be covered by the recent Due Process Protection Act and amendments to Rule 5(f).
But the government's filing show in Rolle's search history, for example, "Jamaican diplomatic passport" and "fake passport Roosevelt avenue."
Judge Nathan ruled that Rolle is a flight risk and that no set of conditions could reasonably assure his appearance at trial.
She set the next conference for June 7. Inner City Press will continue cover this case.
It is US v. Rolle, Jr., 20-cr-594 (Nathan).
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