TRENTON – Acting Attorney General John J. Hoffman announced that a Newark, N.J., man was sentenced to state prison today for carrying out a scheme in which he used false identities and nearly $340,000 in counterfeit or bad checks to buy 19 cars from an online auto auction company.
Keith L. Hutcheson Jr., 27, of Newark, who formerly lived in Paulsboro, N.J., was sentenced to seven years in state prison by Superior Court Judge Christine Allen-Jackson in Gloucester County. He pleaded guilty on April 21 to second-degree theft by deception and third-degree forgery. Hutcheson was required to enter a civil consent judgment to pay $212,000 in restitution to the auto auction company, Copart Inc. The company previously recovered a number of the vehicles, which reduced the amount of restitution owed.
Deputy Attorney General Peter Gallagher prosecuted the case and handled the sentencing for the Division of Criminal Justice Financial & Computer Crimes Bureau.
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