Category: Organized Crime
Larry Wilson, RICO conspiracy, Tennessee 2024
⏱ 2 min read Larry Wilson, a 36-year-old Memphis man, has been sentenced to 87 months in prison for his role in a RICO conspiracy involving robbery and methamphetamine distribution with the Young Mob gang. Wilson, also known as ‘L’, was part of a pattern of racketeering activity that included attempting to commit and committing…
Rosendo Castelan-Reyes, Illegal Entry, Texas 2018
⏱ 2 min read Illicit activity is rampant along the Texas border, with 263 cases filed in Houston from June 19-25 for immigration and border security-related crimes. The Southern District of Texas has charged 223 illegal aliens, including 56 for illegal entry and 167 for reentry, with most having previous convictions for narcotics, immigration offenses,…
Sergio Hipolito Reyes Cordero, Unlawful Reentry, Connecticut 2025
⏱ 2 min read Sergio Hipolito Reyes Cordero, a 52-year-old Guatemalan national, was arrested for illegally reentering the United States after being deported. Reyes, who has a history of using aliases, was taken into custody in Connecticut, where he had been serving time for tampering with physical evidence and moving a dead body without a…
Anel Del Carmen Zapata Polanco, Unlawful Reentry, Connecticut 2023
⏱ 2 min read Anel Del Carmen Zapata Polanco, a 42-year-old Dominican national, was arrested for illegally reentering the United States after being deported. Zapata, who has a history of convictions for possession of a forged instrument and conspiracy to distribute heroin, was taken into custody after being released from state prison. The arrest occurred…
Antonio Alfaro-Ramirez, Illegal Reentry, Montana 2026
⏱ 2 min read Antonio Alfaro-Ramirez, a 41-year-old Mexican national, was caught in a Bozeman apartment on December 23, 2025, during a search warrant execution by the Missouri River Drug Task Force. He had illegally reentered the US after being removed three times previously. Ramirez pleaded guilty in February 2026 to one count of illegal…
Erik Roberto Machado-Mencia, Alien Re-Entry, Louisiana 2025
⏱ 2 min read Erik Roberto Machado-Mencia, a 37-year-old Honduran native, pleaded guilty to re-entering the United States without authorization after being previously deported. The incident occurred on May 15, 2025, when Machado-Mencia was found in a silver Toyota sedan on Interstate 12 near Lacombe, Louisiana. A federal Border Patrol Agent had stopped the vehicle…
Dominique Carpenter-Grady, Conspiracy to Smuggle PCP and Synthetic Cannabinoids, Massachusetts 2026
⏱ 3 min read Dominique Carpenter-Grady, a 36-year-old member of the violent Boston-based H-Block gang, was sentenced to 12 months and one day in prison for his role in a conspiracy to smuggle PCP and synthetic cannabinoids into a Massachusetts prison. The sentencing took place on June 15, 2026, in federal court in Boston, and…
Thomasz Szabo, Swatting Conspiracy, District of Columbia 2026
WASHINGTON – Thomasz Szabo, 27, of Romania, has been sentenced to 48 months in federal prison for orchestrating a nationwide swatting spree that terrorized public officials, religious leaders, journalists, and even a former U.S. President. The sentencing, handed down in U.S. District Court today, brings a measure of closure to a case that exposed a…
Rogelio Morales-Ramos, Reentering the United States without Permission, Iowa 2026
⏱ 2 min read Rogelio Morales-Ramos, a 36-year-old Guatemalan national, pled guilty to reentering the United States without permission after being deported three times. The incident occurred in Sioux City, Iowa, where Morales-Ramos had been living in Sioux Center. On April 1, 2026, law enforcement attempted to stop Morales-Ramos for speeding, but he fled on…
Rodrigo Alarcon Palomares, Money Laundering, Colorado 2023
⏱ 2 min read Rodrigo Alarcon Palomares, a Mexican national and associate of the notorious Sinaloa Cartel, has been indicted in Colorado for laundering drug proceeds through cryptocurrency. The indictment, handed down by a federal grand jury, alleges that Alarcon Palomares knowingly conducted financial transactions involving the conversion of drug proceeds into cryptocurrency, specifically in…
