Douglas County Sheriff: Pair found with more than $555K in stolen personal, business checks
Two were arrested Monday for possession of stolen personal and business checks amounting to more than $555,000, according to the Douglas County Sheriff's Office.
Keyli Escalante-Enamorado and Rudy Socop-Domingo were taken into custody following a traffic stop and an investigation. Among the felony charges alleged are fraud, swindle, confidence game, identify theft, possession of stolen property, possession of credit card without consent, possession burglary tools, theft over $5,000, tampering with the mail and uttering a forged instrument.
According to a news release from DCSO, deputies stopped a 2008 Toyota Camry driven by Keyli Escalante-Enamorado and Rudy Socop-Domingo for speeding. A consent search of the Toyota revealed over 300 pieces of opened and un-opened mail, to include, 261 personal and business checks totaling over $555,000.
A majority of the stolen checks were written to the IRS. Also, located in the Toyota were two homemade mail fishing devices made of vinyl strips, duct tape, and weights. The devices used the sticky portion of “Rat Traps” to remove mail from the postal containers.
According to their criminal histories, both Escalante-Enamorado and Socop-Domingo are apparently in the U.S. illegally and were deported from the United States in 2019 under Sections 212 and 237.
Escalante-Enamorado and Socop-Domingo were both booked into the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office Minden Jail.
Escalante-Enamorado’s bail is $435,974 and Socop-Domingo’s bail is $350,039.
The Douglas county Sheriff’s Office has reached out to ICE to request an immigration hold placed on both suspects.
Mail and checks were located from the following locations:
Douglas County, Carson City, Lyon County, Washoe County, Storey County and numerous locations in California.
Douglas County Sheriff’s Office will contact the above agencies and individual victims in Douglas County as soon as possible.
The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office has reached out to the US Postal Inspector’s Office and Homeland Security to assist with this investigation.