A former West Reading police officer who has already served time in federal prison on mail fraud charges for selling fraudulent body armor is facing the same charge again.
Marco DeCamillo, 46, of Reading was indicted Feb. 21 by a federal grand jury on one count of mail fraud. He pleaded not guilty at his arraignment Monday and is set to appear at trial on May 8 in front of U.S. District Judge Malachy E. Mannion in Scranton.
According to the indictment:
DeCamillo was selling rifle plates and other body armor online through eBay and another website using the name Downrange Tactical and Downrange Tactical Gear. He falsely claimed the equipment was certified by the National Institute of Justice.
DeCamillo sold and distributed the fraudulent gear to customers around the world between October 2019 and May 2021.
On Jan. 13 he mailed four body armor plate inserts to a P.O. box in Wyoming, Pa., that was being used by an undercover federal agent as part of the investigation.
The matter was investigated by Homeland Security Investigations. The case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney James Buchanan.
The maximum sentence for mail fraud is 20 years of imprisonment, a term of supervised release and a fine.
DeCamillo’s new scheme began shortly after he finished serving a federal prison sentence for an identical crime and while he was still on federal probation.
In March 2018 DeCamillo was sentenced to a year in federal prison for mail fraud for selling misbranded body armor through his online business. He was also required to pay $124,000 in restitution and serve three years of supervised release after his prison sentence was completed.
In that case, DeCamillo pleaded guilty to selling fraudulent body armor through his West Reading company Mad Dragon Tactical. He sold about $169,000 worth of body armor rifle plates that were falsely classified as certified by the National Institute of Justice, which conducts ballistic testing on body armor.
DeCamillo, who was serving as a police officer at the time, also falsely claimed certain Mad Dragon Tactical body armor shields would protect against armor-piercing rounds, and he used his status as a police officer to sell the misbranded body armor rifle plates to law enforcement, military and defense agencies, investigators said.
DeCamillo admitted to federal agents that he knew the armor he was selling was not certified.
DeCamillo spent a second stint in federal prison for violating the conditions of his supervised release.
His probation was revoked, and he was sentenced to 10 months in federal prison followed by a year of supervised release in November 2021 after Homeland Security Investigations agents and state police found 2,426 rounds of ammunition from 14 different calibers of firearms in his home during a search. As a convicted felon, he was not allowed to possess the ammunition.
According to federal records, DeCamillo was released from federal custody on March 18.
Source: Berkshire mont
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