Prison Inmate Sentenced for Rochester Credit Card Scam
Rochester, MN (KROC-AM News) - A man already incarcerated at the Minnesota State Prison in Faribault has been given a 24-month prison sentence for his conviction on charges connected to a rash of purchases made using stolen credit cards in Rochester.
Court records indicate 48-year-old Raymond Gurneau Jr. was sent to prison in December 2022 for a burglary conviction in Hennepin County in 2019. About three months earlier, surveillance camera recordings from multiple Rochester businesses showed him making purchases valued at more than $2,500 using stolen credit cards.
The criminal complaint in the case says investigators obtained search warrants for two adjoining rooms at a Rochester hotel and recovered numerous IDs and debit or credit cards that did not belong to Gurneau or the woman he was with. Investigators also confiscated four stolen computers, keys to a stolen vehicle found in the hotel parking lot, two firearms, and more than three grams of methamphetamine.
Gurneau was charged with felony possession of a firearm by a person convicted of a violent crime, aiding and abetting financial transaction card fraud, aiding and abetting vehicle theft, and aiding and abetting computer theft. Under the terms of a recent plea agreement, Gurneau entered guilty pleas to the financial transaction card fraud and computer theft charges, along with an unrelated drug possession charge.
The weapons charge and the vehicle theft charge were dismissed.
