A Moreno Valley man who works as a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer has been arrested for alleged pandemic-related fraud.
The United States Department of Justice said Amer Aldarawsheh, 45, faces five counts of wire fraud after he “fraudulently obtained nearly $150,000 in COVID-19 pandemic business-relief loan funds for two of his sham businesses.”
Those businesses — Nahar Enterprises Inc., a San Bernardino-based trucking and freight company, and Ameral, an automotive repair company — were the subject of “false statements” Aldarawsheh made to the Small Business Administration while he was seeking COVID-19-relief loans…