On Thursday (February 2), 31-year-old Phyllis Ann Garcia of Hudson was sentenced to 54 months in prison for bank fraud and related charges. U.S. Attorney Dena J. King of the Western District of North Carolina, along with Sheriff Don Brown of the Catawba County Sheriff’s Office, Sheriff Alan Jones of the Caldwell County Sheriff’s Office, and Chief Reed Baer of the Hickory Police Department made the announcement. Garcia and her co-conspirators stole checks, money orders, credit cards, and other financial and personal identifying information from victims in Caldwell and Catawba Counties, which they then forged and altered in order to defraud banks and other financial institutions. They also used victims’ debit and credit cards to make purchases, and stole mail items from residential and business mailboxes, an activity they referred to as “mailboxing.” Garcia was also ordered to serve three years of supervised release after completing her prison term and to pay $18,418.16 in restitution.
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