Five men who Cobb prosecutors said stole ink cartridges from Office Depot and Office Max stores across metro Atlanta will spend the next five to six years in prison.
Prosecutors believe the men, who were members or associates of the Broad Street Boys gang in Atlanta, intended to use the stolen ink cartridges to produce counterfeit money, according to a statement from the Office of Cobb County District Attorney Vic Reynolds.
“On twelve different occasions,” officials said in the statement, “one or more co-conspirators entered a retail store, filled large garbage bags with ink cartridges from store shelves, and then fled without paying.”
Those cartridges, prosecutors said, were sold to a fence, someone who knowingly buys stolen property for later resale. The fence, identified as Jeffrey Chijioke Enujioke, 30, of College Park, used his legitimate business at Atlanta Metro Mall as a front to move the stolen property, according to the statement.
He and the four other men pled to the Cobb County thefts, all of which were captured on video.
Enujioke pled guilty on Oct. 5 to racketeering and admitted buying the stolen ink. He was sentenced to 15 years, with five years to serve in prison and the rest on probation.
Anthonique Finley, 28, of Atlanta, pled guilty on Thursday to racketeering, theft by shoplifting and gang-act violations. He was sentenced to 15 years, with six years to serve in prison and the rest on probation.
Christopher Kitchens, 24, of Jonesboro, and Andre Reese, 25, of Atlanta, pled guilty on Sept. 11 to racketeering, theft by shoplifting and gang-act violations. They were sentenced to 15 years, with six years to serve in prison and the rest on probation.
And Antonio Fambro, 44, of Stone Mountain, pled guilty on Sept. 10 to racketeering and theft by shoplifting. He was sentenced to 15 years, with six years to serve in prison and the rest on probation.
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