A 23-year-old Florida man is headed to federal prison for his role in a sophisticated identity theft ring that targeted drivers across southern Maine. Richard Harris, of Fort Lauderdale, was sentenced today in a Portland courtroom to 32 months behind bars followed by three years of supervised release.
The scheme, which Harris carried out alongside co-conspirator Paul Logugune, relied on a calculated mix of petty theft and high-stakes bank fraud. According to federal court records, the pair spent months breaking into unattended vehicles to snatch purses and wallets.
They specifically hunted for driver’s licenses and checkbooks, which served as the raw materials for their operation.
Once they had the stolen documents, the duo forged checks made out to the very people they had robbed. To distance themselves from the teller windows, they recruited others to enter various federal credit union branches throughout the region.
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These recruits used the stolen IDs to impersonate victims and cash the forged checks.
U.S. District Judge Stacey D. Neumann handed down the sentence today, which also includes a mandate for Harris to pay $31,400 in restitution to his victims. This follows Harris’s guilty plea entered on December 16, 2025.
Harris isn’t the first to face the music in this case. Logugune was sentenced in August 2024 to two and a half years in prison and ordered to pay over $32,000 in restitution for his involvement. The successful prosecution was the result of a joint investigation between the FBI and the Freeport Police Department.
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