Authorities say the crew used financial information from the dark web to do the job.
“Crooks have nothing but time to figure out how to get your data,” Mont Belvieu Police Chief Jimmy Ellison said.
Mont Belvieu police say they know of 35 residents in our area who are victims of this scheme.
Police started working on the case in June and have made 40 arrests thus far. Some suspects lived as far away as Georgia and Illinois, but many resided in Houston.
Gregory Edwards III, 23; Doc Frank, 25; Jayson Gipson 20; and Lajewel McGilbray, 21, are the ringleaders, according to police.
They have all been charged with money laundering and engaging in organized criminal activity.
Edwards, Gipson, and McGilbray were also charged with breach of computer security.
Police say the suspects got financial information off the dark web that came from data breaches and used it to wire money out of people’s accounts.
