Youngstown man charged with wire fraud scheme

March 15, 2011 at 6:05p.m.

YOUNGSTOWN — A city man faces federal charges for alleged wire fraud in excess of $235,000.

United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio has filed a one-count information charging Jonathon M. Tepper, 21.

“This is fraud on a major scale,” said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.

The information charges that from June 23, 2007, through about Jan. 4, 2009, Tepper devised a scheme to obtain cell phones then sell them on eBay.

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