Tag: Cincinnati
Terrill Hill, Possession of a Machinegun, Ohio 2026
⏱ 2 min read Terrill Hill, a 21-year-old repeat offender from Cincinnati, Ohio, pleaded guilty to illegally possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. In November and December 2025, Hill posted photos on Instagram showing him holding a unique Glock with an extended magazine, a switch, and a flashlight/laser pointer. The switch, a metal device…
Cesar Augusto Olmos Usaquen, Eduardo Villarroel Bellorin, Juan Carlos Carroll Borrero, Drug Trafficking, Ohio 2026
⏱ 2 min read A sophisticated dark web drug trafficking organization that operated from Medellin, Colombia, and had cells in Miami, Florida, and Charlotte, North Carolina, was dismantled by federal authorities after a multinational operation. The group, known as Undertaker45, used encrypted messaging platforms and dark web marketplaces to distribute counterfeit OxyContin pills laced with…
Sergio Velasco-Cortes, Cocaine Distribution and Stolen Vehicle Trafficking, Ohio 2025
⏱ 2 min read Sergio Velasco-Cortes, a 42-year-old Mexican citizen, pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute cocaine and participating in the buying and selling of stolen vehicles in Cincinnati, Ohio. Velasco-Cortes, who owned bars in Cincinnati and Middletown, was a member of a drug trafficking organization that distributed kilogram shipments of cocaine throughout the Southern…
Johan Perez-Ventura, Illegally Reentering the United States, Ohio 2025
⏱ 2 min read Johan Perez-Ventura, a 27-year-old Guatemalan national, pleaded guilty to illegally reentering the United States after causing a head-on collision in Butler County, Ohio, that injured a Cincinnati Children’s Hospital nurse. The crash occurred in November 2025, when Perez-Ventura, who was deported in February 2019, was driving left of center and collided…
Benjamin Cantey, Wire Fraud, Ohio 2025
⏱ 2 min read Benjamin Cantey, a 43-year-old Cincinnati man, has been sentenced to 40 months in federal prison for running a $6.5 million wire fraud scheme. From 2019 to 2022, Cantey lied to investors about his online laundry and dry-cleaning pickup and delivery business, exaggerating its financial stability and growth. He used the money…
Cesar Cervantes, Cocaine Trafficking, Ohio 2026
⏱ 2 min read Cesar Cervantes, a 52-year-old Arizona man, was found guilty of leading a massive narcotics and money laundering operation that funneled cocaine from Mexico into Cincinnati. The conspiracy, which lasted from at least July 2018 to August 2023, involved Cervantes supplying 25-50 kilograms of cocaine every two weeks to coconspirators in Cincinnati…
Dominick S. Gerace II, Fraud, Ohio 2023
⏱ 2 min read Scammers are impersonating federal prosecutors and law enforcement officials, targeting American citizens across the country, including in Ohio, in a sophisticated scheme to defraud people of money. The perpetrators, potentially based outside the US, contact victims via text, email, or phone, claiming they are suspects in a fraud investigation or have…
Damian Galan, Cocaine Trafficking, Ohio 2026
⏱ 2 min read Two Southwest Ohio relatives were caught red-handed in a massive cocaine trafficking operation that’s yielded over 700 pounds of the deadly drug, with a street value of $5.8 million. Damian Galan, 31, and Diego Galan, 19, were arrested on May 10 after a weekend sting by agents with the Homeland Security…
Michael Goss, Machinegun Possession, Ohio 2026
⏱ 2 min read Two Cincinnati men, Michael Goss, 18, and Felix Burnette, 22, were caught with machineguns modified with Glock switches, which convert semi-automatic firearms into fully automatic ones. The arrests happened on March 12 near the Valley Shopping Center on Reading Road, after a traffic stop for illegal window tint. The men now…
Robert Isham, Felon in Possession of a Firearm, Ohio 2024
⏱ 2 min read Cincinnati, Ohio – In a chilling display of brazen disregard for the law, Robert Isham, 41, was caught on the streets of Hamilton with a loaded semi-automatic handgun clutched in his hand on August 20, 2024. According to eyewitnesses, Isham suddenly walked into the middle of a busy street, disrupting traffic…
