SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) – A former postal worker from Sarasota has entered a no contest plea and received a sentence for defrauding over 30 individuals and unlawfully taking more than $60,000 during a check fraud investigation in 2023.
According to court documents, Anabel Ossombi, 30, from Bradenton, will spend seven years in prison, followed by 30 years of probation for Criminal use of personal identification (more than 30 victims), Scheme to defraud exceeding $50,000, and Money laundering.
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Ossombi was taken into custody in April 2023, after an inquiry that commenced earlier that same year revealed she had stolen checks while serving as a mail sorter, cashed them, and deposited the funds into accounts under her name.
Investigators found that Ossombi took 66 checks from at least 30 victims, amounting to $66,088.71 between May and November 2022.
On June 14, 2022, law enforcement responded after two victims reported that they had not received payment checks from Symtify Acquisition in Chandler, Arizona, and Congruity in Salem, North Carolina. The victims informed police that one check had been deposited into an unknown bank account, while another was never received.
Detectives from the Sarasota PD Criminal Investigators Division issued a subpoena for Bank of America records related to the two checks and, on April 3, 2023, traced the deposits back to an account belonging to Ossombi.
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