Acting United States Attorney Sara C. Sweeney announces that Raymond Andres Zumba (27, Staten Island, NY) has been arrested and charged by indictment with bribery of a public official.
If convicted, Zumba faces a maximum penalty of 15 years in federal prison.
Zumba has been ordered detained pending trial.
According to court documents, in January 2025, a confidential source reported to law enforcement that Zumba serves in the U.S. Navy Reserve and was aware that the source’s spouse worked at Naval Air Station (NAS) Jacksonville in the personnel office that issues Department of Defense identification cards.
The source reported that Zumba asked whether the spouse would be willing to issue real but unauthorised identification cards for an under-the-table payment.
Acting at the direction of federal agents, the source proceeded to engage in a series of communications with Zumba, during which they discussed Zumba’s plan to obtain unauthorized ID cards in exchange for cash.
After driving from New York, Zumba arrived in Jacksonville on February 13, 2025, with three individuals, including a Chinese national.
Zumba brought these individuals to NAS Jacksonville, where the source’s spouse let them into the personnel office after business hours. Then, Zumba initiated the process for two of them to receive ID cards.
The following day, Zumba met with the source, who gave him two cards in exchange for $3,500. Zumba was promptly arrested, and the cards were recovered.
An indictment is merely a formal charge that a defendant has committed one or more violations of federal criminal law, and every defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
