A former United States Marine from Illinois is accused of stealing the identities of several fellow Marines and using their information to take more than $138,000 from the Navy Federal Credit Union, according to an indictment in federal court this week.
Officials allege that Leonard E. Parker Jr., of Calumet City, obtained a Marine roster containing the personal information of fellow Marines while stationed at a camp in Okinawa, Japan.
Once he returned to the United States, Parker, 24, and a man named Dontreal Evans, 21, used the information on the roster to transfer roughly $138,798 from the Marines’ accounts into bank accounts belonging to people they had “recruited in the scheme,” the indictment states.
Parker and Evans allegedly paid the people who owned the bank accounts to give them access and later withdrew funds and made purchases from the accounts.
Parker is accused of also filing false tax returns in the names of the Marines who were listed on the roster.
Parker has been charged with five counts of financial institution fraud, one count of aggravated identity theft and four counts of filing false claims against the U.S. Evans, of Lansing, was charged with three counts of financial institution fraud.
Each count of financial institution fraud carries a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison, a $1 million fine and mandatory restitution.
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Officials said an investigation is ongoing.
