Man at center of restaurant search warrants granted release until trial

Local and federal authorities swooped in on 14 different locations in Alabama last Tuesday.

They were looking for Cesar Campos-Reyes, 52, of Lee County, related to four counts of bank fraud, four counts of wire fraud and money laundering related to four PPP loans with an approximate value of $225,000 following a multi-year long investigation. It follows an April federal indictment of Campos-Reyes.

Following a Friday hearing in federal court, Campos-Reyes, a naturalized citizen, was released by a federal magistrate judge until a November trial. Last week, he entered pleas of not guilty in front of a federal magistrate judge…

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