WICHITA – 29-year-old Hakeem O. Makanjuola and 20-year-old Josie B. Richardson, both of Wichita are charged with mail fraud and aggravated identity theft in a scheme to purchase gold coins using fraudulently obtained credit card information. The crimes are alleged to have occurred in March 2011 in Wichita.

The indictment alleges that Makanjuola and Richardson used other people’s credit card information to order gold coins from Texas Gold Coins in Fairfax Station, Va.; American Precious Metal Exchange in Oklahoma City, Fort Knox Metals in Wallington, N.J., United States Mint in Plainfield, Ind., and Rare Coin Collector in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.

Some of the coins were delivered to a house at 320 N. Erie in Wichita, where Richardson picked them up. In another instance, the coins were delivered to the Days Inn Motel at 7321 E. Kellogg, where Makanjuola arranged to pick them up.

Victims whose credit card information was used to make the purchases are identified in the indictment at Steve H., Matthew R. and Kurt F.

Makanjuola is charged with five counts of mail fraud, four counts of aggravated identity theft, one count of wire fraud, one count of access device fraud and one count of possessing fraudulent access devices. Richardson is charged with one count of mail fraud, one count of aggravated identity theft and one count of perjury.

If convicted of mail fraud, they each face a maximum penalty of 20-years in federal prison and a fine up to 250-thousand on each count. For aggravated identity theft, a mandatory two years on each count, consecutive to the underlying sentence.

Then for wire fraud, a maximum penalty of twenty years and a fine up to 250-thousand, perjury, a maximum penalty of five years, for the charge of access device fraud, a maximum penalty of 20-years, and possession of a fraudulent access device, a maximum penalty of 20-years and a fine up to 250-thousand dollars.