Category: Cybercrime
Luis Mauricio Flores Ordonez, Drone Operation, Texas 2026
⏱ 2 min read A Honduran national, Luis Mauricio Flores Ordonez, 33, was charged with piloting an unregistered drone in protected airspace near Dallas Stadium before a FIFA World Cup match on June 15, 2026. The incident occurred while a Temporary Flight Restriction (TFR) was in effect, and Flores Ordonez allegedly flew his DJI Mini…
Ezekiel Dean Potter, Computer Fraud, Iowa 2025
⏱ 2 min read Ezekiel Dean Potter, a 34-year-old former IT employee, hacked into the Saydel Community School District in Des Moines, Iowa, over a year and a half after being terminated in April 2023. Potter downloaded over 300 usernames and passwords, using them to disrupt district operations, including taking down a social media page,…
Drew Holzlein, Distributing Child Sexual Abuse Material, New Jersey 2026
⏱ 2 min read Drew Holzlein, a 57-year-old New Jersey man, was sentenced to 350 months in prison for distributing child sexual abuse material on a dark-web site dedicated to discussing and trafficking in CSAM. The sentencing took place in Newark, New Jersey, and was the result of a prosecution by the US Attorney’s Office.…
Anthony Belford, Cyberstalking, Georgia 2023
⏱ 2 min read Anthony Belford, a New York man, has been charged with federal cyberstalking in Georgia for allegedly using social media accounts to post more than a dozen messages with nude images generated by artificial intelligence and racist comments. The online harassment scheme, which lasted for three months, targeted a college student in…
Daniel Richter, Cyberstalking, New York 2024
BUFFALO, N.Y. – A man has been sentenced to 5 years in prison for cyberstalking a woman and her family. Daniel Richter, 47, of Middle Island, NY, was sentenced to serve 60 months in prison by U.S. District Judge John L. Sinatra, Jr. Between December 24, 2023, and March 27, 2024, Richter sent hundreds of…
Robert Glapinski, Child Pornography, Michigan 2026
DETROIT – A family medicine doctor from Capac, Michigan, has been handed a 15-year federal prison sentence for a sickening trove of child pornography, authorities announced yesterday. Robert Glapinski, 62, pleaded guilty to distributing thousands of images depicting the sexual abuse of children, some prepubescent in age. The case unraveled after the National Center for…
Jacob Butler, DDoS, Alaska 2026
⏱ 3 min read Jacob Butler, a 23-year-old Canadian man, was arrested in Ottawa, Canada, for operating the notorious KimWolf Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Internet of Things (IoT) botnet. The botnet infected over a million devices worldwide, including devices in Alaska, and was used to launch massive DDoS attacks, including one that reached a…
John Bamford, Child Exploitation, Virginia 2026
⏱ 2 min read Detective John Bamford of the Arlington County Police Department has been recognized for his outstanding work in combating child exploitation and cybercrime in Virginia and beyond. Bamford, who also serves as an FBI Task Force Officer with the Washington Field Office, has been instrumental in identifying and rescuing hundreds of child…
Ariel Kornienko, Animal Crush Video Distribution, Louisiana 2023
⏱ 2 min read Ariel Kornienko, a 43-year-old woman from Covington, Louisiana, has been sentenced to 9 months in prison for distributing brutally cruel animal crush videos online. Between October 25, 2023, and June 7, 2024, Kornienko shared obscene and shockingly cruel videos depicting monkeys being impaled, penetrated with objects, set on fire, and subjected…
Owe Martin Andresen, Money Laundering, Georgia 2019
⏱ 2 min read Owe Martin Andresen, a German citizen and alleged main administrator of Dream Market, one of the largest illicit darknet marketplaces, has been indicted for laundering funds from the site’s administrator accounts. The indictment alleges that Andresen channeled commissions earned from selling illegal drugs, stolen personally identifiable information, counterfeit identification documents, and…
