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AUBURN — Two New Yorkers were sentenced to federal prison Wednesday for conspiring to make and use fake credit cards in Auburn.

Malik Delima and Shaun Wray, both 26 and from Brooklyn, were sentenced in U.S. District Court in Portland.

Delima’s sentence was 75 months in prison; Wray, 20 months. Both were ordered to spend three years on supervised release and to pay $28,483 in restitution following their release from prison. They pleaded guilty to the charge in July.

Delima and Wray were part of a group that came to Maine from New York to commit credit card fraud in March 2015, according to court records. They bought equipment used to make bogus credit cards. They bought stolen credit card account numbers from a source in Ukraine, made the phony cards and used them at retail outlets in Maine and other states, according to a written statement from the office of U.S. Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II.

The conspiracy involved more than 1,100 stolen credit card accounts, the statement said.

Authorities executed a federal search warrant at an Auburn apartment on March 24, 2015, where they seized more than 100 of the fraudulent credit cards, many blank gift cards that were being converted into fake credit cards and the equipment used to make the cards. At that time, Delima and Wray and other conspirators were inside the apartment.

The investigation was conducted by the U.S. Secret Service, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the Auburn Police Department, with assistance from the Maine State Police Crime Laboratory.

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