Tag: Alabama
Aylesha Maria Allen, Tax Fraud, Alabama 2026
⏱ 3 min read Aylesha Maria Allen, a 42-year-old Mobile woman, has been sentenced to one year and one day in federal prison for filing at least 21 false tax returns, resulting in a tax loss of $371,412. The scheme involved fraudulent Sick and Family Leave Credits related to the COVID-19 pandemic, false Schedule C…
Jabreon Deshon Mosley, Fentanyl and Methamphetamine Trafficking, Alabama 2025
⏱ 2 min read Jabreon Deshon Mosley, a 35-year-old from Meridian, Mississippi, has been convicted of running a massive drug trafficking operation in Alabama. Mosley worked with co-conspirators from the Birmingham and Tuscaloosa areas to distribute counterfeit fentanyl pills. The operation involved pressing powder fentanyl and methamphetamine into pill form, which resembled prescription drugs or…
New Life Center for Change, Inc. and Alfonza Smith, False Claims, Alabama 2026
Alabama Provider Pays $300,000 to Resolve False Claims as Part of 2026 National Health Care Fraud Takedown Phenix City, AL – In a shocking revelation, New Life Center for Change, Inc., doing business as Teen University, and its owner, Alfonza Smith, 72, of Smiths Station, Alabama, have agreed to pay $300,000 to resolve allegations that…
Jabreon Deshon Mosley, Counterfeit Fentanyl Pills, Alabama 2026
Tuscaloosa Man Convicted of Counterfeit Fentanyl Pills Conspiracy A Mississippi man has been convicted for his involvement in a drug trafficking conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney Phillip W. Williams Jr. Jabreon Deshon Mosley, 35, was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine and fentanyl and use of a communication facility to commit a…
Johan Leandro Zapata-Valencia, Cocaine Trafficking, Alabama 2025
⏱ 2 min read Two Colombian nationals, Johan Leandro Zapata-Valencia and Christian Yesid Lugo-Beltran, both 26, were caught trafficking 21 kilograms of cocaine in Calera, Alabama, on February 6, 2025. The duo, who were in the US illegally, pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute cocaine and were sentenced to 57 months in prison.…
Robert Lee Ford Jr, Producing Child Sexual Abuse Material, Alabama 2025
⏱ 2 min read A 35-year-old Birmingham man, Robert Lee Ford Jr, has pleaded guilty to producing child sexual abuse material after a report of an assault on a 14-year-old girl led to his arrest. The incident occurred in January 2025, when a deputy from the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office was dispatched to Children’s of…
Dominique Jeremiah Pearson, Bank Robbery, Alabama 2024
⏱ 2 min read On December 13, 2024, a group of three men from Texas – Dominique Jeremiah Pearson, Onarri Bond, and Xavier Rashad Ross – used force to overpower technicians servicing a credit union ATM in Prattville, Alabama, making off with approximately $179,234 in cash. The violent heist left one technician injured after being…
Aaron B. Butler, Fraud, Alabama 2021
Muscle Shoals, AL – Aaron B. Butler, owner of Negus Capital Incorporated (NCI), has been slapped with a hefty default judgment by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama for engaging in fraudulent solicitation and misappropriation of funds, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced today, April 7, 2021. Judge Liles C.…
Aaron B. Butler, Fraud, Alabama 2020
Muscle Shoals, AL – Aaron B. Butler, a former resident of Muscle Shoals, Alabama, has been permanently banned from trading commodities and registering with the CFTC after being found guilty of fraud, according to a U.S. District Court order issued June 17, 2020. Butler was also ordered to pay a combined $755,000 in restitution and…
Travis Sopson, Bank Fraud, Alabama 2025
Travis Sopson, Bank Fraud, Alabama 2025 MOBILE, AL – Travis Sopson, a 45-year-old resident of Mobile, Alabama, is headed to federal prison after being sentenced to 46 months for conspiracy to commit bank fraud and bank fraud. The scheme, carried out between August 2022 and January 2023, saw Sopson systematically bilking multiple banks and credit…
