4 charged over student loans
Group accused of stealing $1.2 million from bank
Published: Thu, Sep. 25, 2008 06:47PM
Modified Fri, Sep. 26, 2008 08:29AM
E-Mail
Print
tool name
closeWILMINGTON -- A federal grand jury returned indictments this week against four people accused of bilking a bank out of $1.2 million in fraudulent student loans.
Charged with conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud are: Derrick King, 23, of Aurora; Marvin R. Heggie, 27, of Raleigh; Melissa Renee Heggie, 29, of Grimesland; and Travis S. Hunter, 28, of Grimesland. The Heggies are brother and sister, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
The 34-count indictment accuses the four of conspiring to obtain $1.2 million from JPMorgan Chase. The indictment alleges the Heggies recruited people to give them their Social Security numbers, and that the Heggies would later complete loan applications with false information.
More Crime & Safety
When checks arrived the Heggies would split the money with the people whose names were on the applications, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. Amounts ranged from $10,000 to $28,300.
Get it all with convenient home delivery of The News & Observer.
The News & Observer is pleased to be able to offer its users the opportunity to make comments and hold conversations online. However, the interactive nature of the internet makes it impracticable for our staff to monitor each and every posting.
Since The News & Observer does not control user submitted statements, we cannot promise that readers will not occasionally find offensive or inaccurate comments posted on our website. In addition, we remind anyone interested in making an online comment that responsibility for statements posted lies with the person submitting the comment, not The News and Observer.
If you find a comment offensive, clicking on the exclamation icon will flag the comment for review by the administrators, we are counting on the good judgment of all our readers to help us.
