U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis sentenced Tianna Cosby, aka “Mendoza,” 24, of Prince George’s County, Maryland, to 114 months in federal prison. In October 2024, Cosby pled guilty to conspiracy to commit mail and bank fraud and aggravated identity theft. Kelly O. Hayes, U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland, announced the sentencing with Postal Inspector in Charge Damon E. Wood, U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) – Washington Division; Special Agent in Charge Kathleen Woodson, U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General (USPS-OIG) – Mid Atlantic Field Office; and Chief Malik Aziz, Prince George’s County Police Department. According to the guilty plea, beginning in March 2021, and continuing through at least August 2021, Cosby conspired with Marche Sisco, age 26, of Suitland, Maryland Tommi Cosby, age 21, of District Heights, Maryland Biniah Carter, age 24, of Upper Marlboro, Maryland Zion Oluwademilade Adeduwon, age 22, of Bowie, Maryland Cosby conspired with the four subjects in a wide-ranging fraud conspiracy. Co-conspirators defrauded financial institutions by stealing checks from the mail, altering and falsifying those checks, and then depositing the altered checks with financial institutions. The conspiracy victimized more than 900 individuals, stealing more than 700 checks, totaling a face value of more than […]
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