Christopher T. Engle co-owned Hearts2Heros, which solicited contributions to create and send care packages to deployed service members. Instead, Engle admitted he took donations totaling nearly $287,000.

H/T: Stars and Stripes

Engle, age 30, was the co-owner of Hearts2Heros, a for-profit entity that allegedly was meant to support the military by creating and sending care packages to deployed service members. Hearts2Heros employees solicited contributions and misrepresented that the organization was a charity, according to a statement from the Department of Justice.

“Using our brave military personnel who are deployed overseas as a prop for a fraud scheme is deplorable conduct. Such conduct also is detrimental to the work of many wonderful community organizations who genuinely support our military. Thanks to the work of the FBI and our prosecution team, the defendant’s greed will now be appropriately dealt with by the court at sentencing,” said U.S. Attorney Bill Powell.

Here's an example of the type of flyers used to solicit funds walking door to door in local neighborhoods.

Berkeley County Man Admits to Wire Fraud Involving Hearts2Heros Organization: Christopher T. Engle of Bunker Hill, West Virginia, has admitted to wire fraud. https://t.co/qaJDSgRAbR — FBI Pittsburgh (@FBIPittsburgh) February 29, 2020