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Minden, NV –On April 15, 2024 at approximately 11:50 p.m., Douglas County Sheriff’s Office deputies stopped a 2008 Toyota Camry driven by Keyli Escalante-Enamorado and Rudy Socop-Domingo for speeding. A consent search of the Toyota revealed over three hundred pieces of opened and un-opened mail, to include, 261 personal and business checks totaling over $555,000.00 dollars. A majority of the stolen checks were written to the IRS. Also, located in the Toyota were two homemade mail fishing devices made of vinyl strips, duct tape, and weights. The devices used the sticky portion of “Rat Traps” to remove mail from the postal containers.
According to their criminal histories, both Escalante-Enamorado and Socop-Domingo are apparently in the US illegally and were deported from the United States in 2019 under Sections 212 and 237.
Escalante-Enamorado and Socop-Domingo were both booked into the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office Minden Jail for a multitude of felony charges including; Fraud, Swindle, Confidence Game, Identify Theft, Possession of Stolen Property, Possession of Credit Card without consent, Possession Burglary Tools, Theft over $5,000.00, Tampering with the Mail and Uttering a Forged instrument. Escalante-Enamorado’s bail is $435,974.00 and Socop-Domingo’s bail is $350,039.00.
The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office has reached out to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to request an immigration hold placed on both suspects.
Mail and checks were located at the following locations:
Douglas County, Carson City, Lyon County, Washoe County, Storey County, and numerous locations in California.
Douglas County Sheriff’s Office will contact the above agencies and individual victims in Douglas County as soon as possible.
The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office has reached out to the US Postal Inspector’s Office and Homeland Security to assist with this investigation.