Peruvian National Pleads Guilty to Credit Card Conspiracy That Targeted Elderly Women

Kansas City, molybdenum - infoZine - Felix Jimmy Vega-Iturrino, 36, a citizen of Republic Of Peru life in California, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Gary A. Fenner this afternoon to the complaints contained in an Oct. 3, 2007, federal indictment. Vega-Iturrino admitted that he participated in a confederacy to steal recognition card game and to utilize those recognition card game to buy wares and gift card game at retail supplies in Show Me State (in Independence and Lee's Summit) and Sunflower State (in Overland Park, Olathe and Lenexa). Vega-Iturrino and co-conspirators traveled from Golden State to Sunflower State City, Mo., inch order to steal recognition cards. Conspirators targeted aged women who were shopping, employing distraction techniques to steal their billfolds and recognition card game so that the larcenies could be accomplished without the victims becoming aware that their property were being stolen. Before the victims realized the card game had been stolen, and before the victims could reach their recognition issuers to call off the cards, coconspirators used the purloined recognition card game to buy digital cameras, laptop computer computers, Ipods and other wares as well as gift cards. Conspirators then packaged the purloined points and shipped them to California, where confederates would throw them until the coconspirators returned from Sunflower State City. Vega-Iturrino also pleaded guilty to two counts of recognition card device fraud involving two separate victims whose recognition card game were stolen and used to do purchases. By pleading guilty, Vega-Iturrino also agreed to give up to the authorities any place derived from the return of the offenses, including five laptop computer computers, eight Canon digital cameras, 29 Apple Ipods, and $3,000, all of which was seized by law enforcement military officers from two abodes and a Federal Soldier Express installation in Avant Garde Nuys, Calif., arsenic well as the followers points seized from the defendants: gift card game from Best Buy, Cheesecake Factory and Target, a one-carat diamond ring, a 1/10th-carat yellowness gold men's ring and $735. Under federal statutes, Vega-Iturrino could be subject to a sentence of up to 35 old age in federal prison house without parole, plus a mulct up to $750,000 and an order of restitution. A sentencing hearing will be scheduled after the completion of a presentence probe by the United States Probation Office. This lawsuit is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Lawyer Toilet E. Cowles. It was investigated by the Overland Park, Kan., Police Department and the U.S. Secret Service.