BALTIMORE, MD—A former federal credit union employee in Maryland has been sentenced to serve four years and nine months in federal prison after he pleaded guilty to stealing identities and using them to open fraudulent bank accounts.

Jalen McMillan, 30, of Jessup, was sentenced Thursday in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt. He will also serve five years of supervised release after he leaves prison and pay a fine of $165,891.68.

McMillan was convicted in federal court after a four-day trial that prosecutors said outlined a scheme involving the theft of personal information from real people and the use of fake identities to open bank accounts in their names.

Prosecutors said McMillan used his position as a “member service representative” at a federal credit union to facilitate the opening of accounts in the names of identity theft victims and subsequent financial transactions, including assisting with loans.

As part of the scheme, prosecutors said McMillan and his co-defendants obtained, possessed, and used fictitious identities and the personal identifying information of real persons to manufacture and procure false identification documents.

Those documents were used to impersonate the victims and open bank accounts and conduct financial transactions in their names, prosecutors said. Trial evidence proved that the conspirators intended to fraudulently obtain more than $400,000 from the bank and successfully defrauded the bank of more than $150,000, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland.

McMillan pleaded guilty in the conspiracy and bank fraud charges. He was convicted of providing the identifying information of a bank customer to a co-defendant knowing that it would be used to facilitate the fraud.

This article was written with the assistance of AI and reviewed by a human editor.