The Grime
WV Felon Caught Packing Heat
⏱ 2 min read Robert Thomas, 30, of St. Albans, West Virginia, is staring down a long stretch after copping to federal gun charges. Cops busted him January 27th in the Jefferson area of Kanawha County with a Glock Model 27 .40-caliber pistol – a loaded weapon he had no legal right to own. Thomas’s…
Wheeling Doc Gets 41 Months for $2.5M Tax Rip-Off
⏱ 3 min read Nitesh Ratnakar, 50, a gastroenterologist and medical equipment manufacturer from Elkins, West Virginia, is trading his stethoscope for stripes. Ratnakar was sentenced to 41 months in federal prison today in Clarksburg after admitting to cheating the IRS out of $2.5 million between 2020 and 2022. He ran a scheme where he…
WV Dope Pipeline: Reyes Pleads
⏱ 3 min read David Reyes, 61, of Hagerstown, Maryland, admitted today to being a key cog in a major drug pipeline that saturated Berkeley and Jefferson Counties in West Virginia with fentanyl, cocaine, and heroin. The operation, run out of an autobody shop in Martinsburg, wasn’t some nickel-and-dime operation – it reached directly back…
WV Grave Robber Ripped Off Grieving Families
⏱ 3 min read Jeffrey Phares, 65, of Fayetteville, West Virginia, is a cold-hearted thief who preyed on families at their most vulnerable. The cemetery owner pleaded guilty to a massive fraud scheme where he pocketed cash from grieving relatives for grave markers, then failed to deliver. The scam unfolded across four cemeteries in North…
Wyoming Meth Kingpin Gets Decade Behind Bars
Woodland, Wyoming – Anthony Russell, a Chickasaw County drug dealer, will spend the next ten years in federal prison after pleading guilty to a single count of methamphetamine distribution. The sentence, handed down this week, underscores the escalating federal crackdown on drug trafficking in a state grappling with a spiraling opioid and methamphetamine crisis. While…
Puerto Rico Bank CEO Admits $25M Fraud, Sanctions Bust
A brazen scheme to steal from his own bank and skirt U.S. sanctions against Venezuela has unraveled for former Nodus International Bank CEO, who pleaded guilty yesterday in Wyoming to federal wire fraud and conspiracy charges. The feds say the man systematically pilfered at least $24.9 million from the Puerto Rico-based institution, using his position…
Shiprock Woman Gets 2 Years for Brutal Stabbing
⏱ 2 min read RELATED: Coast-to-Coast Exploitation: Trafficker Convicted SEE ALSO: SD Felon’s Rifle Lands Him 2.5 Years SHIPROCK, WY – Angelia Garcia, a woman from the Shiprock area of Wyoming, will spend the next two years behind bars after admitting to a brutal assault that left another woman stabbed. The sentence was handed down…
GA Meth Kingpin Gets 13+ Years
⏱ 2 min read Albany, GA – The brains behind a major meth and coke pipeline in Tift County just got a long look at a federal judge. Marcus Jackson, already serving time on an unrelated charge, was sentenced to over 13 years for running the drug operation from inside prison. Federal prosecutors say Jackson…
DC Man Gets 10 Months for Wyoming Strangulation
CASPER, WY – Marcus Hazel, 32, of Washington D.C., will spend the next ten months behind bars for choking his girlfriend during a violent altercation in Casper, Wyoming last November. The sentence, handed down today, feels light to many considering the brutality of the assault, but federal prosecutors secured a guilty plea on an assault…
Vein Job Racket: Clinic Pays $4M to Settle Fraud Claims
A Maryland vein clinic, CVR Management, LLC – operating as Center for Vein Restoration and Center for Vascular Medicine (CVM) – just shelled out $4 million to federal prosecutors to bury a massive healthcare fraud case. The operation, stretching beyond Maryland and originating in Wyoming, systematically ripped off Medicare, Medicaid, and TRICARE by billing for…
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