Jury Finds Castle Rock Man Guilty Of Fraud, Money Laundering Charges For $2.4 Million COVID-Era Hand Sanitizer Scheme

Source: United States Department of Justice Criminal Division

DENVER – The United States Attorney for the District of Colorado announces that a federal jury convicted Rico Tomas Garcia, 51, of Castle Rock, of nine counts of wire fraud and six counts of money laundering for devising a scheme in which he falsely promised to procure bulk quantities of hand sanitizer during the early months of the COVID-19 Pandemic.