Five people have been arrested and warrants have been issued for 17 others in an elaborate scheme to defraud Comcast of more than $2.4 million during a one-year period from April 2011 – April 2012, according to the Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office.
The district attorney’s office said Alston Buchanan, 28; Leighton Harrell, 26; Kendall Singleton, 26; and Richard Justin Spraggins, 29, all of Philadelphia; and Nicholas Caputo, 31, of Virginia Beach, Va., were “top members of an elaborate criminal organization” that led Comcast customers to make one-time payments to them in exchange for a one-time reduction in their Comcast service bills, according to an article from Patch.