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Fonjeck Eric Azoh is an American man from Maryland, United States. Here are 10 more things about him:
- He is a resident of Mount Rainier, Prince George’s County, Maryland.
- Aside from Mount Rainier, he has lived in other parts of Maryland including Hyattsville.
- He sold cars and bitcoin to people in Africa for a living, according to him.
- On August 31, 2012, he obtained his National Provider Identifier (NPI) number.
- Between January 2019 and October 2020, he advertised the sale of pit bull puppies on various websites and agreed to sell these puppies to victims living throughout the U.S. even though he never intended to provide them.
- Throughout his scheme involving the sale of pit bull puppies between January 2019 and October 2020, he used a global money transfer service called Walmart2Walmart and more than 200 different identities to receive transactions at Walmart stores across Washington, D.C., USA and surrounding states and collected at least $158,000 from at least 119 victims who lived in 40 different states.
- In January 2021, he was arrested. He admitted to being involved in the wire fraud involving the sale of pit bull puppies between January 2019 and October 2020 and claimed that he was the middle man taking only a 30 percent cut of the money and sending the rest to Africa.
- On August 30, 2021, he pleaded guilty to a scheme in which he generated at least $158,000 in money transfers from more than 100 victims who never got the dogs. He agreed that a restitution order of at least $158,000 is appropriate in the case and to forfeit $67,000 seized by law enforcement during the investigation and pay an additional $92,000 forfeiture money judgment.
- On November 24, 2021, he was sentenced by Honorable Carl J. Nichols to 30 months in prison and ordered to pay $158,000 in restitution.
- He was 42 years old when he was sentenced on November 24, 2021 to 30 months.
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