United States of America v. Lashaumba O. Randolph

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1343 and 2, and use of fire in the commission of that fraud, in violation of

18 U.S.C. §§ 844(h)(1) and 2.1.



During a bench trial, witnesses identified the Camaro as a stolen vehicle that Randoph claimed to own and had insured. Specifically, a police officer testified that he found the Camaro damaged and abandoned on the side of a road and that Randolph arrived, introduced himself as the owner, and told the police officer that a woman, whom Randolph later identified as Denise Linnen, crashed the car. According to the officer, Randolph was otherwise evasive in answering the officer's questions. Linnen testified that she had never been inside the Camaro. She also testified that a man named "Black” drove the Camaro from Georgia to Pennsylvania in a convoy of several vehicles and that Randolph was a passenger in one of those vehicles

Affirmed