Tag: December 2016
William Left Hand, Abusive Sexual Contact, SD 2016
Bullhead, South Dakota — William Left Hand, 31, was sentenced on December 12, 2016, to 24 months in federal prison for abusive sexual contact, a crime that shattered trust and crossed the line from social visit to sexual violation. U.S. District Judge Charles B. Kornmann handed down the sentence, which includes five years of supervised…
Fritz Eagleshield III, Child Endangerment, SD 2015
A 40-year-old McLaughlin man left his autistic son shivering in a car at -3°F, sparking a federal child abuse conviction and a probation sentence. Fritz Eagleshield III admitted he forgot his son in the back seat while running an errand for cigarettes—exposing the vulnerable boy to life-threatening cold. On December 27, 2015, a Bureau of…
Joseph Clifford, Child Abuse, SD 2016
Shocked residents of Pine Ridge, South Dakota are reeling from the news that a 72-year-old man has been sentenced for a heinous act of child abuse. Joseph Clifford, the despicable defendant in this case, was handed down a sentence by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken on December 12, 2016. Clifford, a resident of Pine Ridge,…
Raymond Joseph Pruneau, Methamphetamine Conspiracy, ID 2024
Raymond Joseph Pruneau, 52, of Boise, Idaho, is going to prison for nearly eight years after being sentenced to 97 months for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. The hard-fought takedown culminated in a federal courtroom conviction, sealing Pruneau’s fate in one of Southwest Idaho’s most aggressive drug crackdowns in recent years. U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson…
Matthew G. Munksgard, Loan Fraud, FL 2024
Matthew G. Munksgard, 41, of Archer, Florida, is headed to federal prison for 30 months after being convicted of falsifying land survey contracts to steal more than $150,000 in bank loans. The owner of an Alachua County surveying company was sentenced yesterday on four counts of making false statements to a federally insured institution and…
David Ackell, Interstate Cyberstalking, New Hampshire 2024
David Ackell, 48, of Seekonk, Massachusetts, was convicted today on federal charges of interstate stalking after a weeks-long campaign of digital terror aimed at a New Hampshire woman he met online. A federal jury in Concord, N.H., returned the verdict following four hours of deliberation, capping a trial that exposed a brutal pattern of coercion,…
Joseph Daniel Saucedo, Online Blackmail, California 2016
Joseph Daniel Saucedo, a 25-year-old man from Vista, California, was arraigned in federal court on December 15, 2016, after attempting to blackmail an 11-year-old Canadian boy and a 16-year-old girl from Florida into sending him nude images. Prosecutors say Saucedo used dual online personas—one as a teenage girl named “Amy” and another as a modeling…
Christopher T. Crawford, Interstate Shipping Theft, Tennessee 2024
Two men have been sentenced for masterminding a $1.8 million interstate shipping theft ring that hijacked high-value shipments of Verizon and AT&T mobile devices en route through FedEx. Christopher T. Crawford, 32, of Memphis, and Jordan West, 28, of New York City, exploited corporate shipping accounts and insider access to reroute boxes worth thousands per…
Joseph Jennings Jr, Armed Second-Degree Murder, DC 2023
Joseph Jennings Jr., 36, of Washington, D.C., is going away for 24 years after pleading guilty to the armed second-degree murder of Matthew Shevlin during a violent home invasion in Northwest D.C. The sentence, handed down today by Superior Court Judge Michael Ryan, marks the end of a case rooted in greed, drugs, and deadly…
Dean R. Kreher, Structuring Financial Transactions, IL 2024
GRIMY TIMES EXCLUSIVE: Dean R. Kreher, 51, of Millstadt, Illinois, has copped to two counts of Structuring Financial Transactions to Avoid Currency Transaction Reports, according to the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Donald S. Boyce. The 51-year-old faces a heavy penalty: up to 10 years in the slammer, a half-million-dollar fine,…
