Habitual Motorhome Thief, Ronald Bruce Myers, Sentenced To 30 Years In Prison

          GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN — U.S. Attorney Patrick Miles announced today that Ronald Bruce Myers, who is 56 years old, was sentenced to thirty years in prison for his leading role in stealing eight different motor homes across the United States as part of an extensive criminal conspiracy uncovered by the FBI. U.S. District Court Judge Robert Holmes Bell also ordered Myers to pay over $2M in restitution. Myers has four prior federal felony convictions for transporting stolen motor homes. He began his latest crime spree almost immediately after being released from a Kentucky prison on yet another charge. The Judge found that defendant Myers caused just over $2.9 million dollars’ worth of losses to the victim businesses, private citizens and insurance companies.

          In April of this year, a federal jury returned guilty verdicts on all counts against Myers who was accused of conspiring with others to steal, transport, and sell motorhomes throughout the United States, including the theft of three motor homes from businesses in Western Michigan. The jury also convicted Myers of transporting the stolen motorhomes out of Michigan. Myers stole a Country Coach motor home from Holland Bus and Motor Homes on March 28, 2012. Myers returned to Michigan in early May 2012, at which time he stole two more motor homes from Midway RV Center of Kentwood. The defendant also stole two motor homes in Alabama, one in Missouri, one in North Carolina, and one in Florida.

          The jury also convicted Myers of three counts related to money laundering. The evidence at trial showed that Myers used a series of aliases to obtain false title documents, open bank accounts and to forward mail as part of his criminal scheme. The defendant moved hundreds of thousands of dollars through the bank accounts opened under false names and/or using purported corporations. IRS records showed that the defendant, and his corporations, did not file tax returns from 2008 to 2012. Myers had already been convicted in four previous federal prosecutions involving stolen vehicles.

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