PORTLAND, Maine: A Fort Lauderdale, Florida man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Portland for bank fraud and aggravated identity theft.U.S. District Judge Stacey D. Neumann sentenced Richard Harris, 23, to 32 months in prison to be followed by three years of supervised release.
He was also ordered to pay $31,400 in restitution. Harris pleaded guilty on December 16, 2025.According to court records, Harris and a coconspirator, Paul Logugune, broke into unattended vehicles to steal purses and wallets containing driver’s licenses and checkbooks. Harris and Logugune forged checks using the stolen checkbooks and made the checks payable to the names on the stolen licenses. They then recruited others to cash the forged checks at branches of a federal credit union throughout southern Maine using the stolen IDs to impersonate the ID theft victims.Logugune also pleaded guilty to his role in the offense.
On August 29, 2024, he was sentenced to two and a half years in prison and ordered to pay over $32,000 in restitution.The FBI investigated the case with assistance from the Freeport Police Department.###