Tag: 2009
Border Surge: 133 Cases Filed in One Week
⏱ 3 min read San Diego federal prosecutors are drowning in border cases. This week alone, the U.S. Attorney’s Office filed 133 charges stemming from the chaotic 140-mile stretch of border shared with Mexico. The offenses range from simple reentry after deportation to serious smuggling and drug trafficking. The volume puts the Southern District of…
Hammond Heroin Dealer Caged for 12+ Years
⏱ 3 min read RELATED: Indy & Evansville Gun Cases Yield Heavy Sentences RELATED: AI-Fueled Fraud: NC Man Admits Streaming Scam Jeremiah Hicks, 38, is headed to federal prison for over twelve years after admitting to dealing poison in Hammond, Indiana. Hicks was sentenced to 151 months – that’s 12 years and 7 months –…
KC Predator Gets 30 Years
⏱ 2 min read RELATED: Tax Cheat Gets 23 Months in the Slammer SEE ALSO: 30 Years for KC Predator KANSAS CITY, MO – Steven Michael George, 45, of Belton, Missouri, will spend the next three decades behind bars after being sentenced to 360 months in federal prison today. U.S. District Judge Stephen R. Bough…
MO Salesman Jett Faces 23 Months for Tax Dodge
⏱ 2 min read Michael Jett, 60, of Independence, Missouri, will spend nearly two years in federal prison after admitting he stiffed the government – and the state of Missouri – on his taxes for six years straight. The timeshare salesman pulled the scheme between 2017 and 2022, falsifying exemptions to avoid paycheck withholding and…
Crypto Cash & Kingpins: DR to PR
⏱ 3 min read Two alleged drug money launderers are cooling their heels in a Puerto Rico jail after being extradited from the Dominican Republic this week. Pedro J. Espinal-Arthur and Luis Febles-Peralta are accused of funneling millions in drug cash through cryptocurrency in an attempt to hide its origins. The pair were arrested January…
Paint & Sip Scam: Medicare Bilked
⏱ 2 min read Irina Segal, the owner of Bucks County’s Segal Arts, LLC, is paying a hefty price for allegedly turning senior care into a cash grab. Federal investigators say Segal defrauded Medicare out of $200,000 by billing the program for one-on-one occupational therapy sessions that never happened. Instead, vulnerable seniors in Pennsylvania and…
Bloomsburg Shooter Caged: 2 Years Fed Time
⏱ 2 min read Nelson Pineda-Chacon, 31, is trading his Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania address for a federal cell after getting two years in prison yesterday. Chief Judge Matthew Brann handed down the sentence after Pineda-Chacon admitted to firing a handgun in his driveway back on May 7th. The shooting followed a fight with his wife; Pineda-Chacon…
Fentanyl Killed, Dealer Faces Life
⏱ 2 min read Roderick Cross Jr., 34, a career criminal known as “Chubb,” is looking at the rest of his life in a federal cage after allegedly supplying the fentanyl that killed a man identified only as J.K. on March 15th. The feds say the lethal cocktail of crack, cocaine, and fentanyl traced directly…
Tulsa Trio Hit With Federal Charges
⏱ 3 min read A man allegedly beat his partner with a gun in Tulsa Indian Country, a Bolivian national peddled sick images online, and a slick fraudster impersonated a federal officer to shake down victims. All three are facing federal heat, according to indictments unsealed this week. Quincy Jay Adams, 32, a member of…
Fake Robbery, Real Theft: 8 Months in Fed Lockup
⏱ 2 min read Nicole Hilstolsky, 48, of Swoyersville, Pennsylvania, is heading to federal prison for eight months. She didn’t pull off a daring heist—she faked one. On October 15, 2018, Hilstolsky, then an employee of the now-defunct WOD Federal Credit Union, grabbed $16,247 from the teller and safe, then called 911 reporting an armed…
