Zul Mohamed, the 2020 Carrollton mayoral candidate who pleaded guilty to a fraudulent mail ballot scheme in that election, has now been charged with sending fake jury duty notices for the day his trial began.
“It wasn’t real difficult to put two and two together that at the very least Mr. Mohamed was gonna be a suspect,” Denton County Sheriff Tracy Murphree told WFAA.
Mohamed was arrested in October 2020 after being caught with a box of fraudulently obtained mail-in ballots and charged with 109 felony counts of voter fraud.
After four years of legal wrangling, Mohamed decided to plead guilty and requested a jury trial to determine his sentence.
His trial began on December 9—the same date dozens of Denton County residents were called to appear via the fake jury duty notices.
Sheriff Murphree said his investigators searched Mohamed’s residence and found 28 fraudulent jury summons postcards and shredded card stock matching the materials used for the fake notices.
Mohamed’s fingerprints were found on three postcards.
“He doesn’t work in a post office, so that’s zero chance of that happening randomly,” said Murphree.
The jury summons scam will reportedly result in a new charge of impersonating a public servant, a third-degree felony.
On December 11, a Denton County jury sentenced Mohamed to four years in prison for 25 counts of possessing other voters’ mail ballots plus 10 years of probation for submitting 81 fraudulent mail ballot applications.
The presiding juror told Texas Scorecard the jury took into account Mohamed’s alleged mental illness when deciding his sentence.
Following the sentencing, Mohamed’s attorney said his client was considering an appeal. The judge set a bond pending appeal at $375,000.
Mohamed is currently in jail awaiting transfer to a state correctional facility.
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