Two men were arrested earlier this month and charged with conspiracy to commit visa fraud for allegedly staging eight fake armed robberies to help their “victims” get a special U visa to stay in the country.
According to court documents , Ramhai Patel and Balwinder Singh committed eight staged robberies, four in Massachusetts , two in Pennsylvania, and one in Kentucky and Tennessee, per local news .
In a statement , Acting US Attorney for Massachusetts Joshua Levy described how the alleged scheme worked. “In the course of the alleged staged robberies, the ‘robber’ would threaten store clerks and/or owners with an apparent firearm before taking cash from the register and fleeing, while the interaction was captured on store surveillance video.””The clerks and/or owners would then wait five or more minutes until the ‘robber’ had escaped before calling police to report the ‘crime’,” he continued. “The ‘victims’ are alleged to have […]
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