Benjii Carr and Langston Xavier Neal yesterday pleaded guilty to participating in a check fraud ring. 

According to court documents and statements made in court, between July 2010 and May 2011, Carr, Neal and Brandon Key Bentley obtained stolen checks, recruited "runners" who cashed the checks and altered the checks to list the runners as the lawful payees. The three men drove the runners to several Connecticut bank branches and directed them to enter the banks and cash the checks. The runners were paid a small part of the cash proceeds.

Through this scheme, 39 checks totaling $114,102.34 were altered and presented to banks, and 37 of those checks totaling $104,070.94 were cashed by the banks.

Bentley pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud on Sept. 9.

Carr, Neal and Bentley are scheduled to be sentenced in February 2015. Each defendant faces a maximum term of 30 years in prison and a fine of up to $1 million.