Tag: December 2016
NY Doc Bribed $25K in NJ Lab Scam
NEWARK, N.J. – Another doctor has fallen. Thomas V. Savino, 57, of Staten Island, New York, was indicted today on charges stemming from a massive bribery scheme orchestrated by Biodiagnostic Laboratory Services LLC (BLS), of Parsippany, New Jersey. U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced the indictment, adding to a growing list of medical professionals caught…
Norristown Man Indicted for Illegal Reentry After Deportation
Jose Arcadio Garduno-Gomez, 24, of Norristown, Pennsylvania, was indicted today on federal charges of illegal reentry after deportation, marking a violent return to U.S. soil nearly five years after being formally removed. According to the indictment unsealed this morning, Garduno-Gomez, an alien native and citizen of Mexico, was found inside the United States on or…
Girma Tilahun, Wife Sentenced in Marriage Fraud Scam
BOSTON — Girma Tilahun, 61, a dispatcher for Boston Cab, and his wife, Wudnesh Wolde, 54, both of Cambridge, were sentenced today in U.S. District Court for their role in a calculated marriage fraud scheme designed to smuggle a relative into the United States under false pretenses. The couple admitted to orchestrating a sham marriage…
Terrance Deangelo Hamlin Gets 10+ Years for Gun, Drug Crimes
Capitol Heights, Maryland, turned another grim page in its violent crime saga as 27-year-old Terrance Deangelo Hamlin was sentenced to 123 months in federal prison for gun and drug offenses. The fallout from a June 2015 raid on a local apartment culminated in a federal conviction after a four-day trial that laid bare Hamlin’s alleged…
Michael Correa Gets 57 Months for Ethylone Import Scheme
A Rahway, New Jersey, man has been slammed with a 57-month federal prison sentence for running a high-stakes scheme to flood Union County with nearly four kilograms of ethylone shipped straight from China. Michael Correa, 32, admitted his role in the conspiracy, which spanned from October 2013 to July 2014, bringing a dangerous synthetic drug…
Mark Cook Indicted on Expanded Sex, Drug Trafficking Charges
Scranton man Mark Cook, 38, is back in the crosshairs of federal prosecutors, hit with a superseding indictment that piles on fresh allegations of sex trafficking by force, drug distribution, and wire fraud. The new charges, handed down by a federal grand jury in the Middle District of Pennsylvania, paint a brutal picture of a…
Cruz Flores ‘Bruja’ Gets Life for MS-13 Throat-Slitting Murder
Cruz Flores, a 30-year-old Bound Brook, New Jersey man known as “Bruja,” is behind bars for life after being sentenced for a blood-soaked execution ordered by MS-13 leadership. The Plainfield Locos Salvatruchas (PLS) clique member was convicted of slicing the throat, beating with a bat, and stabbing a fellow gang associate 17 times in May…
Ashley Blacketer Sentenced in $500K Bank Embezzlement
A Leavenworth woman has been hit with prison time after stealing more than $500,000 from the bank where she worked, federal prosecutors confirmed Tuesday. Ashley Blacketer, 29, of Leavenworth, Kan., was sentenced to four months in federal custody followed by four months of home confinement after pleading guilty to embezzlement by a bank employee. Blacketer…
Timothy Fenster Sentenced for 6 Armed Robberies Across PA
Timothy Fenster, 31, of Plains Township, Pennsylvania, is headed back behind bars — this time for nearly eight years — after being sentenced to 92 months in federal prison for a string of six armed robberies that terrorized small communities across the region. The sentence, handed down today by U.S. District Judge Richard A. Caputo…
Thomas O. Beaurem Charged with Trashing 4,500 Pieces of Mail
Thomas O. Beaurem, 25, of McDonough, Ga., is facing federal charges for allegedly dumping more than 4,500 pieces of mail in a wooded area in Decatur, Georgia—mail he was entrusted to deliver as a letter carrier for the U.S. Postal Service. Beaurem, a former postal employee, was indicted by a federal grand jury on one…
