2 Montgomery County Men Indicted For Wire Fraud

GREENBELT, MD — Two Montgomery County residents were indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly making nearly $50,000 of fraudulent purchases in Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina, prosecutors announced.

Jonathan Henry, 26, of Bethesda and Dominique Davis, 27, of Germantown were indicted on 12 counts.

Henry and Davis allegedly stole the personal identifiable information of at least eleven victims and created fake driver’s licenses with the stolen information from October 2015 to April 2018.

"Using the fake driver’s licenses, Henry and Davis allegedly applied for credit card accounts at retail stores and cellular telephone accounts at telecommunication stores in the names of the victims without the victims’ authorization," prosecutors said.

The defendants purchased $45,206.13 worth of items like electronics in Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina.

Henry is also charged with 11 counts of aggravated identity theft, prosecutors said.

Henry and Davis face a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison for wire fraud. Henry also faces a mandatory consecutive sentence of two years per count of aggravated identity theft.

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