Capitol Heights Mail Thief Pleads Guilty To $250K Bank Fraud Conspiracy

PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY, MD — Kavon Dupree Jackson, 26, of Capitol Heights has pleaded guilty to bank fraud conspiracy that took in more than a quarter of a million dollars.

According to his guilty plea, Jackson and a co-conspirator illegally possessed a U.S. Postal Service “arrow key,” which they used to open USPS postal boxes and steal mail. They then took the mail back to their home and pulled out checks from the stolen mail. Jackson and the co-conspirator then changed the names of the payees on the checks to their names or to the names other conspirators recruited to assist with the scheme. Jackson and his co-conspirators would then cash the checks and immediately dissipate the funds for their own gain.

Jackson’s co-conspirator used various social media accounts to advertise for persons with bank accounts at various financial institutions and offered to pay them to use their accounts to wash the stolen, counterfeited checks. In return, these “money mules” would receive a small cut of the proceeds and Jackson and his co-conspirators would retain the rest. Jackson also sometimes deposited stolen checks into his own account, according to court documents.

On March 16, 2022, law enforcement executed a search warrant at Jackson’s residence. Law enforcement recovered a USPS arrow key, more than 350 stolen checks, an assault rifle and numerous rounds of ammunition. Law enforcement conducted another search warrant at Jackson’s residence on November 4, 2022, and recovered more stolen checks, mail and a pistol. Jackson admitted that both firearms were purchased with proceeds from the scheme and are subject to forfeiture.

The scheme resulted in more than $250,000 in losses, representing the amounts of stolen checks that were deposited into the financial institutions associated with Jackson or his co-conspirators. More than 50 victims had checks stolen from them, which were later deposited into co-conspirators’ accounts.

Jackson faces a maximum of 30 years in federal prison for the bank fraud conspiracy, according to the prosecution.