By Kimone Witter
Three US-Jamaican citizens have been found guilty relating to a lottery scam that targeted elderly Americans during the period 2017 to 2020.
The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced Monday that a jury found 47-year-old Caron Pitter, 49-year-old Rohan Lyttle, and 44-year-old Charlene Marshall all guilty of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and mail fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering after a two-week trial.
Pitter was also charged with several counts of mail fraud, and Lyttle was charged with multiple counts of mail fraud, wire fraud and interstate transportation of goods taken by fraud.
A fourth defendant, 26-year-old Rohan Lyttle Jr., was charged with some of the same offences. He is still at large.
Evidence presented at trial showed that, as part of the scheme, an individual based in Jamaica posed as a representative from Publisher's Clearing House and contacted elderly Americans to falsely tell them they had won multi-million dollar prizes.
Prosecutors also presented evidence that the fraudsters used the money from the lottery scam to purchase cars in online auctions, fix them at a body shop they owned in Queens, New York, called Rocars Auto, and then sell the vehicles at an affiliated car dealership in Jamaica.
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