PROVIDENCE – A former employee of Santander Bank has been sentenced in federal court for stealing more than $125,000 from the bank account of a 78-year-old customer with dementia.
Carlos Bras, 41, of East Providence, was sentenced on October 8, 2026, by U.S. District Court Judge Melissa R. DuBose to 30 months of imprisonment to be followed by 3 years of supervised release and a $200 special assessment. Bras was also ordered to pay $126,000 in restitution. Bras previously pleading guilty to mail fraud and aggravated identity theft.
According to charging documents, Bras enabled online banking access to the victim’s account, ordered checks sent to an address in Fall River and his own residence, and ordered a debit card for his personal use. He also conducted numerous unauthorized transactions to his wife’s account, and several large wire transfers to a Portuguese bank account in her name…