Two Brooklyn men were sentenced to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to theft charges related to a $750,000 gold scam targeting a Granville resident.<\/p>\n
Jackson County Sheriff\u2019s Department officials said Fei Wang and Zhi Huang must pay $750,000 in restitution to the victim as a condition of their sentence. Officials said the investigation began in April 2024 after a man reported receiving fraudulent phone calls from individuals claiming to be with the U.S. Department of Treasury.<\/p>\n
Officials said the callers convinced the victim to close investment certificates of deposit and purchase gold to protect his finances from a supposed identity threat. Officials said a courier was promised to transport the gold to a safe location with the guarantee that the assets would be returned once the threat passed.<\/p>\n
Officials said the victim completed three separate transactions totaling $750,000 before contacting law enforcement during a fourth attempt.<\/p>\n
Captain Dennis Thrasher coordinated with the FBI Nashville Cyber Task Force to conduct a joint surveillance operation at the Granville home. Officials said Wang and Huang were taken into custody in October 2024 when they arrived at the residence to collect an additional $250,000 in gold.<\/p>\n
Officials said the suspects drove from New York to Tennessee to facilitate the final pickup before the Jackson County grand jury heard the case. Officials said the 20-year sentence includes a provision that the defendants will not be eligible for parole until the full restitution is paid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two Brooklyn men were sentenced to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to theft charges related to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-311284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}