Severn Man To Serve 7 Years After Fraud Conviction
Adetokunbo Olumbuni Adepoju, 39, was convicted for a third time on charges relating to bank and mail fraud.
A judge has sentenced a Severn man to more than seven years in prison after he was convicted of fraud for a third time. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Baltimore said Adetokunbo Olumbuni Adepoju, 39, was sentenced Wednesday to 88 months in prison followed by 5 years of supervised release. He was convicted in August of bank fraud and identity theft following a four-day trial. When he was arrested for the crime in 2010, he was on supervised release relating to a 2003 conviction on similar charges. Prosecutors said Adepoju was the subject of a Homeland Security investigation after agents learned that he planned to commit fraud against a bank using someone’s stolen identity. Using a confidential source, agents tracked Adepoju between August and…
