12/18/2025
🚨🔥 BREAKING: Two convenience store owners in Boston are facing federal charges after investigators allege they orchestrated a years-long scheme to illegally exchange Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits for cash, a practice known as “benefits trafficking," resulting in more than $7 million in fraudulent redemptions.
According to court records, federal prosecutors in Massachusetts have charged Antonio Bonheur, owner of Jesula Variety Store, and Saul Alisme, who operates Saul Mache Mixe Store, with food stamp fraud tied to separate undercover transactions that allegedly occurred in October 2025. The two small shops are located in the same building on Blue Hill Avenue in Mattapan, a detail investigators say proved critical to uncovering the scope of the operation.