PEMBROKE PINES, Fla. — Federal agents arrested four men at a Pembroke Pines restaurant on Monday as part of an undercover lunchtime sting foiling their plan to cash a stolen U.S. Treasury check worth nearly $28 million, according to court documents obtained by Local 10 News on Wednesday.
The men ― three from Texas and one from South Florida ― were scheduled to make their initial appearances in Fort Lauderdale federal court on Wednesday morning on charges of theft of government property and conspiracy to defraud the United States.
According to a federal criminal complaint, federal agents learned earlier in the month that Carlos Manuel Villanueva, 37, of Hialeah, had access to the stolen $27,910,676.69 tax refund check, which was supposed to go to an unnamed company in Richmond, Virginia…