$6.5M IN STOLEN CHECKS AND A FRAUD COURSE FOR SALE: ATLANTA RAPPER GETS 6 YEARS

🚨 More than $6.5 million in stolen checks. Six years in federal prison.

WSB-TV reports that 34-year-old Shamarri Tache Brooks, an Atlanta rapper who performs as "Juney Knotzz," was sentenced Thursday after pleading guilty in May to bank fraud and aggravated identity theft. He also faces five years of supervised release.

According to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Georgia, the scheme ran from at least January 2022 through November 2025. Prosecutors say checks were stolen from the mail, and people were recruited over social media to let their bank accounts receive the money.

The checks were then altered, prosecutors say, so those cooperating account holders appeared to be the intended recipients. Deposits were made at ATMs across metro Atlanta, often while wearing balaclava-style masks printed with the phrase "No Free Sauce."

📉 Then came the second revenue line. Officials say Brooks sold online tutorials teaching others how to commit financial fraud, marketed as "Sauce Book" and "SB." Investigators say he also sold images of stolen checks, referred to as "slips."

Federal authorities put the combined face value of the checks taken by Brooks and his associates at more than $6.5 million. Notably, prosecutors said many of the stolen checks were recovered from his home and there was no evidence he successfully negotiated the rest.

U.S. Attorney Theodore S. Hertzberg said Brooks "brazenly marketed and sold fraud tutorials and trafficked thousands of stolen checks worth millions of dollars."

Authorities are telling residents to collect mail promptly, use USPS Informed Delivery, and mail checks inside post offices.

Do you still put checks in a mailbox?

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