Two Virginia residents have been indicted by federal prosecutors after they cashed about $400,000 in altered, counterfeited and forged postal money orders, according to the U.S. District Court in Maryland.
Edna Gorham Bey, 55, and David Rosser, 59, face 15 counts stemming from activities prosecutors said took place between July 2001 and September 2002, when the two lived in Maryland.
According to court documents released Tuesday, the pair bought valid postal money orders from U.S. post offices worth between $300 and $700 each. The two would then scan the orders into a computer and digitally alter the amount of the order, prosecutors said. The original money order would be returned to the post office for a cash refund, according to court documents, and the pair would enlist a cadre of co-conspirators to cash the forged money orders in the District of Columbia, Maryland, Michigan, Virginia and elsewhere.
If found guilty, the two face up to a total of 50 years in prison and up to 11 years of supervised release.
