Tag: 2009
Merced Man Gets 20 Years for Child Porn
⏱ 2 min read MERIDAN, WY – Joel Damian Ortega, 36, of Merced, California, learned his fate Thursday: 20 years in a federal penitentiary. Ortega wasn’t busted for drugs, robbery, or a street fight. He was convicted of possessing and *distributing* material depicting the sexual exploitation of children. The case, remarkably, was prosecuted in the…
D.C. Killer Gets Life for Child’s Murder
Washington D.C. – Reginald Steele Jr., 26, will die behind bars. A federal judge today handed down a 107-year sentence for the cold-blooded killing of 13-year-old Malachi Lukes, gunned down on March 1, 2020. The sentence also accounts for a separate shooting just weeks prior, on February 22, 2020, in the Petworth neighborhood, painting a…
Bridgeport Gunman Gets 12 Years
⏱ 3 min read Derrick Rivera, 22, is headed to federal prison for 12 years after terrorizing two Bridgeport businesses in November 2022. Rivera pleaded guilty to robbing a barbershop on Wood Avenue and a restaurant on Wade Street, both at gunpoint. The November 25th robbery at the Wade Street eatery turned especially violent when…
WV Drug Ring Linked to Sinaloa Cartel Crumbles
⏱ 2 min read RELATED: AI-Fueled Fraud: NC Man Admits Streaming Scam SEE ALSO: Rehoboth Predator Nabbed with ‘Hundreds’ of Child Images MARTINSBURG, WV – A 61-year-old Hagerstown, Maryland man just admitted he was a key player in a large-scale drug operation flooding Berkeley and Jefferson Counties with poison, and the trail leads straight back…
NY Dealer Down: 10lbs Meth, 400g Fentanyl
⏱ 2 min read RELATED: Ex-Marine Leaks Secrets to China, Maryland SEE ALSO: Tax Cheat Gets 23 Months in the Slammer SPRINGFIELD, MO – A New York City man is facing a long stretch behind bars after a federal jury found him guilty of flooding Springfield, Missouri with fentanyl and methamphetamine. Ahmaad Jarvis, 39, was…
Fake Finance Guru Bilked Followers
⏱ 2 min read Kenneth Thom, operating online as “K$” and “K Money,” admitted in federal court today to running a cold-blooded investment scam out of New York. The 40-something ex-broker preyed on social media followers with promises of easy profits, all while hiding a history of financial misconduct. Thom pleaded guilty to investment adviser…
Bolivia’s Top Cop Caged: 25 Years
⏱ 2 min read Former director of Bolivia’s anti-drug force, Maximiliano Davila Perez, 50, learned his fate today in a New York federal courtroom: 25 years in prison. Perez wasn’t busting cartels – he was running product, federal prosecutors proved to a jury. Extradited from Bolivia last December, Perez used his power to grease the…
Edison Execs Faked $10M Order: Plea Deals
⏱ 2 min read The hustle for pandemic profits turned criminal. Christopher Ferguson, former CEO of Edison Nation, and Brian McFadden, a consultant for the firm, both pleaded guilty in federal court today to cooking the books. They confessed to faking $10 million in purchase orders after a massive deal for hand sanitizer went belly-up,…
Tax Thief Gets 20 Months
⏱ 3 min read Karen McGinnis, 46, of Mountain Top, Pennsylvania, is headed to federal prison after admitting she pilfered over $400,000 from the taxpayers of Fairview Township. For nearly two years, from March 2023 to January 2025, McGinnis – the township’s tax collector – treated the public coffers like her personal ATM. She wrote…
Bronx Dealer Caged in Erie Coke Run
⏱ 2 min read Jose Baez Cabrera, a 35-year-old from the Bronx, is doing nearly four years in a federal penitentiary after state troopers and feds busted him hauling eight kilos of cocaine into Erie, Pennsylvania last August. Cabrera was caught red-handed, with the stash hidden in his vehicle, while delivering to local dealers. The…
