News from 2019
Man Sentenced to 58 Months for Darknet Credit Card Scheme
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 16, 2019
News Release: Odis Edwards, 40, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit access device fraud in January.
Sex Trafficker Sentenced In Manhattan Federal Court To 30 Years In Prison For Victimizing Minor Girls And Adult Women For Nearly 20 Years
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 17, 2019
News Release: Manhattan U.S. Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman said: Grevy Gerard Pierre-Louis spent almost 20 years engaged in depraved and extraordinarily violent sex trafficking of minor girls and adult women. As a result, he will now spend the next 30 years in prison. Our hope is that the brave survivors of the defendants heinous crimes will find a measure of justice in todays sentence.
Three Men Charged In An Elaborate ATM Skimming Scheme
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 17, 2019
News Release: This indictment charges CIPRIAN VIOREL VARTOLOMEI, 38 (aka: Eric Rene Fuss, Dumitru Movradin, and Costica Andriesei), CATALIN PUSCASU, 36 (aka: Bjorn Ove Sigbjornsen and Jean Francois Margelli), and ION FLORIN OPROIU, 45 (aka: Dominik Gerza) with two counts of access device fraud (Oprious is charged with only one count) and one count of aggravated identity theft.
Mobile County Husband and Wife Sentenced for Their Roles in a $255,134.54 Bank Fraud Scheme
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 17, 2019
News Release: On Jan. 23, 2019, pursuant to separate plea agreements both Shyria Powell and William Powell entered guilty pleas. Shyria Powell pled guilty to aggravated identity theft and William Powell pled guilty to conspiring to commit bank fraud. They both admitted in open court that from on or about October ...
Operator of Global Cybercrime Marketplace Sentenced to 90 Months Imprisonment
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 17, 2019
News Release: Defendants Codeshop Website Sold Troves of Stolen Credit Card Data and Bank Account Logins on the Black Market
Pennsylvania Man Sentenced for Stealing Credit Cards at the Plaza Frontenac Cinema
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 17, 2019
News Release: According to court records, between May 27, 2017, and continuing until at least Jan. 27, 2018, Ford and others stole and obtained without authorization credit and debit cards of individual patrons at the Landmark Plaza Frontenac Cinema in St. Louis, Missouri. Ford and his co-conspirators then used ...
Baton Rouge Man Sentenced To Federal Prison For Threats Made Against President Trump
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 17, 2019
News Release: In March of 2018, RAYBORN made several statements indicating he had access to guns and that he was planning to kill the President of the United States. The investigation revealed RAYBORN knowingly and willfully made the above statements regarding his intent to kill the President and intended them to be taken seriously.
Four More Charged in Ongoing Investigation of Widespread Identity Fraud in Central Ohio
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 18, 2019
News Release: Benjamin C. Glassman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, Tracey Thanos, Special Agent in Charge, Social Security Administration Office of Inspector General, and Yvonne DiCristoforo, Special Agent in Charge, United States Secret Service, announced the charges.
Cuban and Venezuelan Men Sentenced for Aggravated Identity Theft and Access Device Fraud
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 18, 2019
News Release: AROSTEGUI was named in a two-count Criminal Information filed on Oct. 10, 2018. CORREA-CISNEROS was named in a two-count Criminal Information filed on Oct. 23, 2018. Both men pled guilty to one-count of Access Device Fraud and Aiding and Abetting and one-count of Aggravated Identity Fraud and Aiding and Abetting. AROSTEGUI was sentenced on April 17, 2019 and CORREA-CISNEROS was sentenced on April 2, 2019.
New York Man Pleads Guilty to Credit Card Fraud
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 18, 2019
News Release: According to court records, on Sept. 27, 2018, the defendant provided false identity information to three Home Depot stores located in Biddeford, South Portland and Windham to obtain credit cards. The defendant used his fraudulently obtained credit cards to purchase over $15,500 worth of items from those stores. The defendant was in the process of attempting to fraudulently obtain a credit card from a Home Depot store in Auburn when he was arrested.
Former Coschocton Public Housing Director Sentenced to Prison for Embezzling HUD Funds
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 18, 2019
News Release: Benjamin C. Glassman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio; Brad Geary, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Office of Inspector General; Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost; Tommy D. Coke, Inspector in Charge, U.S. Postal Inspection Service; Coshocton ...
Massachusetts Man Sentenced for Sending White Powder and Threatening Letters from 2015 through 2018
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 19, 2019
News Release: Daniel Frisiello, 25, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Nathaniel M. Gorton to five years of probation, with one year to be served in home detention with location monitoring, and restitution. During the period of probation, Frisiello is prohibited from contacting the victims in the case, sending ...
Brazilian Citizens Sentenced to More Than Three Years in Federal Prison for Using Counterfeit Credit Cards to Purchase Over $52,000 in Merchandise and for Aggravated Identity Theft
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 19, 2019
News Release: Lucas Pimenta Diogo Das Gracas, age 23, was sentenced on April 11, 2019, and his co-conspirator, Diogo Miranda Araujo, age 23, was sentenced on April 1, 2019. Judge Bennett ordered the defendants to pay restitution totaling $41,116. Das Gracas was ordered to pay $34,540 and Araujo was ordered to pay $6,576.
Methamphetamine Dealer Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 23, 2019
News Release: U.S. District Judge Gregory K. Frizzell sentenced Shaun Cruz Conine, 46, to 30 years in federal prison for his crimes. Conine previously pleaded guilty on Jan. 17, 2019, admitting to possessing with intent to distribute more than 50 grams of methamphetamine and other controlled substances, brandishing a firearm at officers and counterfeiting U.S. currency with intent to pass it off as genuine.
Passaic County, New Jersey, Man Admits Role in Business Email Scheme
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 24, 2019
News Release: Lawrence Espaillat, 41, of Clifton, New Jersey, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Peter G. Sheridan in Trenton federal court to an information charging him with one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
Inland Empire Man Sentenced to More than 6 Years in Federal Prison for Stealing Disaster Relief Funds Intended for Hurricane Victims
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 24, 2019
News Release: Ikponmwosa Eugene Idemudia, 40, of Rancho Cucamonga, was sentenced at a Monday hearing by United States District Judge Percy Anderson, who also ordered him to pay $1,328,982 in restitution. Idemudia pleaded guilty in October 2018 to one felony count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
Bookkeeper Pleads Guilty To Embezzling Money from Best Western Oak Mountain Inn; Co-Conspirator Indicted on Related Charges
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: In a one-count information filed in U.S. District Court, the United States Attorney charged DELAINE DAWSON SUMMERVILLE, 50, with wire fraud for her role in an embezzlement scheme targeting one of her accounting firms clients, the Best Western Oak Mountain Inn, located in Pelham, Alabama. A plea agreement ...
Romanian Pleads Guilty in Fraud Scheme Targeting ATMs at Washington County Banks
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 29, 2019
News Release: Elvis E. Roman, 33, of Romania, pleaded guilty to a two-count Indictment and one-count Information before United States District Judge Nora Barry Fischer.
Seven Indicted in "Card Cracking" Scheme
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 29, 2019
News Release: Counterfeiters allegedly targeted college students and their bank accounts
Syracuse Man Sentenced to 46 Months for Threats Against Public Officials
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 30, 2019
News Release: Stephen J. Taubert Threatened Congresswoman and Former President Obama