A Florida man was sentenced to 32 months in prison on Wednesday for his role in a forgery and identity theft scheme that took place across Southern Maine.
Richard Harris, 23, of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, pleaded guilty in December 2025, and will also face three years of supervised release and must pay $21,400 in restitution.
Harris, along with a co-conspirator, Paul Logugune, broke into empty cars to steal wallets and purses to obtain victims’ checkbooks and driver’s licenses.
The two men then forged checks using the stolen checkbooks and made them payable to the names on the stolen IDs.
They then recruited other conspirators to cash the checks at federal credit union branches across southern Maine, using the licenses to impersonate victims.
Logugune pleaded guilty to his role in the crimes and was sentenced in August 2024 to spend two and a half years in prison and repay over $32,000 in restitution.
