JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – An Ohio man was sentenced to 16 months in federal prison for illegally possessing credit card encoding devices.
According to court documents, on April 28, 2024, Sean Matthew Langston, Jr., 33, of Columbus, Ohio, was arrested in Rankin County following a traffic stop. Prosecutors said Langston and his co-defendant, John Carleton Johnson, Jr., were found to be in possession of 322 gift cards, 17 reencoded instruments containing stolen bank card data and two magstripe encoding devices.
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The U.S. Attorney’s Office said Langston and Johnson could be seen on CCTV footage at various retail stores throughout the Jackson-metro area purchasing gift cards with known cloned instruments.
A federal grand jury returned an indictment against Langston and Jonson on February 20, 2025. Langston pled guilty to one count of illegal possession, production, or trafficking in device-making equipment with intent to defraud on December 11, 2025.
Johnson pled guilty to the same charge on June 30, 2025, and was sentenced to 24 months’ imprisonment on November 3, 2025. Both men were ordered to pay fines.
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