A LeFrak City resident who police say looted mail boxes and stole more than $100,000 worth of rent checks from his fellow tenants in the Queens complex was arrested Tuesday, officials said.Cops said 45-year-old Olawale Akinnawonu — who won a lottery in Nigeria to apply for U.S. citizenship — used a key and stick to fish out rent checks intended for the complex’s management company from an outgoing mail drawer.


According to cops, Akinnawonu stole $100,000 worth of rent checks from his fellow LeFrak residents.

He would then use the checks to “overpay” credit card accounts he made in his victims’ names so he could receive reimbursement checks.Those checks — which ranged between $900 and $1,500 — were then deposited in a bank account he could pull money from, officials said.

Akinnawonu and his wife were arrested at their LeFrak City apartment.

Cops arrested Akinnawonu and his wife, whose name was not released, in their LeFrak City apartment at 7 a.m. as neighbors watched.“I’m shocked,” said Nubia Moreno, 67. “They didn’t seem to go to work. When we talked, he always said he was a Christian.”Queens prosecutors said they have video of Akinnawonu “basically taking a stick and shoving it into U.S. Mail outboxes.”“We have video of him removing the mail,” Queens Assistant DA Greg Pavlides told Judge Barry Kron at Akinnawonu’s arraignment.

source: http://m.nydailynews.com/1.1479617

It is because of people like him that made Nigeria to be illegible for visa lottery. I hope US immigrations deport him back to Nigeria after serving his prison sentence

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