EAST ST. LOUIS — Two Georgia men were sentenced today in East St. Louis to more than 2-years in federal prison on charges they used stolen account numbers at several Southern Illinois Walmarts including the store in Carlyle.

According to U.S. Attorney Donald Boyce, 25-year-old Samirahdam E. Rolley was sentenced to 26 months and 28-year-old Michael A. Gordon was sentenced to 25 months in federal prison.

Both men were also ordered to pay nearly $20,000 in restitution to their crime victims.

In February, both Rolley and Gordon pleaded guilty to federal charges of using unauthorized access devices, using counterfeit access devices, and aggravated identity theft.

At their plea hearings, both Rolley and Gordon admitted that they travelled from Georgia to Southern Illinois in early June 2015, and  had in their possession numerous gift cards.

The magnetic strips of those gift cards had been re-encoded with stolen debit card numbers.

Some of these debit account numbers were for the accounts of Southern Illinois residents at a local credit union.

Rolley and Gordon used the altered gift cards to make purchases at numerous Metro East Walmarts, including the stores in Cahokia, O’Fallon, Belleville, Highland, Wood River, Collinsville, Glen Carbon, Godfrey, Jerseyville, Waterloo, and Carlyle.

The purchases made by Rolley and Gordon were debited to the bank accounts of the victims whose debit account numbers had been embedded on the gift cards.

The investigation was conducted by the Springfield Division, Fairview Heights Resident Agency, of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”). Several Metro East police departments including the Carlyle Police Department assisted the FBI with the investigation.