Greece woman sentenced for her role in retail theft ring involving hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of stolen merchandise

ROCHESTER, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney Michael DiGiacomo announced today that Amanda L. Reeves, 43, of Greece, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, was sentenced to serve 42 months in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford. Reeves was also ordered to pay $92,903.34 in restitution to various retailers, including Best Buy, Home Depot, Kohls, Lowes, Macy's, Target, and Walmart.

Between December 2021, and October 17, 2024, Reeves conspired with others to engage in an ongoing retail theft conspiracy involving the New York Gold Diamond Pawn Shop (NYGDPS). The pawn shop was owned and operated by co-defendant Dominic Sprague and managed by co-defendant James Civiletti. Reeves and her co-conspirators stole new-in-box items from store shelves on a weekly, and sometimes daily, basis. They then sold the stolen goods to the pawn shop for a fraction of the actual retail value. The pawn shop then resold the stolen merchandise on eBay at much higher prices, resulting in significant profits. The pawn shop purchased 37,936 stolen new-in-box items from Reeves and the others on more than 670 occasions, for which Reeves and the others were paid $290,000.00. The actual losses to the victim-retailers were approximately $1,160,000.00.

In addition, Reeves unlawfully used an ID belonging to another person to engage in transactions at NYGDPS. She recklessly created a substantial risk of death or serious bodily injury to another person in the course of fleeing from law enforcement while the scheme was ongoing. Specifically, in 2019 and 2024, Reeves led police on high-speed car chases, which police discontinued because of the threat that the defendant posed to other motorists.

Dominic Sprague and James Civiletti were previously convicted.

The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Kyle P. Rossi. The sentencing is the culmination of an investigation by Homeland Security Investigations, under the direction of Acting Special Agent-in-Charge Anthony Patrone, the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation Division, under the direction of Special Agent-in-Charge Harry T. Chavis, Jr., the Greece Police Department, under the direction of Acting Chief Ryan Parina, and the Monroe County Sheriff's Office, under the direction of Sheriff Todd Baxter.

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