A Navy reservist who once served on the guided-missile destroyer USS Carney has been charged with allegedly attempting to bribe a former shipmate to help two Chinese nationals obtain unauthorized military identification cards for “immigration purposes,” according to prosecutors.
Raymond Andres Zumba, 27, of Staten Island, New York, has been indicted with bribery of a public official and faces a maximum prison sentence of 15 years, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Florida announced in a press release on March 3. Zumba is currently being held pending trial.
After learning that his former shipmate’s spouse was working at the Naval Air Station (NAS) in Jacksonville, which issues Department of Defense (DOD) identification cards, Zumba contacted his former shipmate. The two individuals were not named in court documents….