{"id":499689,"date":"2026-10-18T00:27:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T00:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/499689\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T00:27:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T00:27:18","slug":"sacramento-man-found-guilty-of-unemployment-insurance-benefits-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/499689\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento man found guilty of unemployment insurance benefits fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(FOX40.COM) \u2014 Two Las Vegas residents and one Sacramento man pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit access device fraud Friday, the U.S. Attorney&#8217;s Office announced in a press release.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Between July 2020 and January 2021, Ricky Lee Ware, 43, and Kimberly Ann Wallace, 30, conspired to obtain debit cards that gave them access to strangers&#8217; unemployment benefits. The debit cards were then used to withdraw more than $900,000 in unemployment benefits from ATMs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Ware and Wallace are set for sentencing on Feb.19, 2027, and face a maximum of 7.5 years in prison. The actual sentence will be determined at the discretion of the court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The man from Sacramento, Carlos Lee Sanchez Jr., 46, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit access device fraud in June. Sanchez is scheduled to be sentenced on Nov. 13.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<a data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to FOX40 News.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/fox40.com\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to FOX40 News.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(FOX40.COM) \u2014 Two Las Vegas residents and one Sacramento man pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit access device&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-499689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}