Oakdale Man Heads to Prison for Stealing Mail, Bank Fraud, Identity Theft
Ricky W. Mariano, 41, of Oakdale, was sentenced in federal court in St. Paul on July 25 for mail theft, bank fraud and identity theft.
An Oakdale man was sentenced in federal court Wednesday (July 25) for stealing mail and using the victims' identities to create bank accounts and obtain cash. Ricky W. Mariano, 41, of Oakdale, will spend more than five years in federal prison for two counts of theft and receipt of stolen mail, two counts of destruction of mailboxes, one count of bank fraud conspiracy, one count of bank fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft. Mariano was charged in a superseding indictment on Jan. 10 and was convicted on March 16 following a jury trial. According to the indictment and evidence presented at trial, Mariano — also known as Ricky William Scharrer — stole mail from mailboxes in Dakota, Ramsey and Washington counties from July 2010 to …
