Tag: December 2021
Luis Enrique Martinelli Linares, Bribery and Money Laundering, New York 2020
BROOKLYN, NY – The grim halls of the federal courthouse in Brooklyn echoed with a guilty plea today. Luis Enrique Martinelli Linares (Luis Martinelli Linares), a Panamanian intermediary, stood before United States District Judge Raymond J. Dearie, admitting his role in a colossal bribery and money laundering scheme that implicated global construction powerhouse Odebrecht S.A.…
Robyn T. Roberts, Tax Fraud, Missouri 2022
ST. LOUIS – Robyn T. Roberts, owner of Roberts Tax Professionals, has officially thrown in the towel, pleading guilty to a litany of federal charges stemming from a brazen tax fraud scheme. Judge Henry E. Autrey accepted the guilty plea today, bringing Roberts one step closer to facing the consequences for bilking the system and…
Charles Dean Studie, Methamphetamine Conspiracy, Oklahoma 2023
GRIMY NEWS: A notorious Tulsa meth kingpin has been handed a 19-year prison term for his role in a deadly conspiracy to distribute the drug from local public housing. Charles Dean Studie, 37, was sentenced by Chief U.S. District Judge John F. Heil III following his guilty plea to leading a methamphetamine conspiracy and illegal…
Thema Liverpool, Conspiracy to Defraud the United States, California 2019
ST. CROIX, USVI – Thema Liverpool, a 33-year-old resident of St. Croix, Virgin Islands, is headed to federal prison after being sentenced to 18 months incarceration for her involvement in a brazen tax fraud scheme. U.S. Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced the sentence, handed down by Judge Wilma A. Lewis on December 2, 2021. Following…
Edward Hernandez, Torture of Government Informant, New York 2021
EDWARD HERNANDEZ, WALKIN FRANCISCO ARIAS VILLAR, and JOSIEL GUSTAVO MARTINEZ GUZMAN have been sentenced to a decade in federal prison each for their roles in the chilling case of torturing a government informant. Today, Hernandez was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Paul A. Crotty after pleading guilty on April 6, 2021. Arias Villar and Martinez…
Avon Allen, Possession of Stolen Firearm, Maryland 2024
Baltimore’s Avon Allen, 36, was today sentenced by U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake to four years in federal prison for possession of a stolen firearm. Following his release from prison, he will face three years of supervised release. According to United States Attorney Erek L. Barron; Special Agent Timothy Jones of the ATF Baltimore…
Robert Fike, Child Predation by Mail, Florida 2024
PITTSBURGH, PA – A depraved act of predation culminated in a guilty plea today as Robert Fike, 50, of Tampa, Florida, admitted to sending obscene and disturbing packages to a minor female in Western Pennsylvania. The details, confirmed by federal prosecutors, are as sickening as they are criminal. Fike appeared before United States District Judge…
Luke Colton Cunningham, Distribution of Methamphetamine, West Virginia 2021
WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA – In a grim admission of guilt, Luke Colton Cunningham, 27, from Cameron, West Virginia, has been caught with his hand in the methamphetamine pie. The United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II confirmed that Cunningham pleaded guilty today to one count of ‘Distribution of Methamphetamine’. The admitted drug dealer, who turned…
Julian Gray, Fentanyl and Gun Trafficking, Maryland 2024
BALTIMORE, MD – Julian Gray, 49, of Baltimore, has admitted to running fentanyl and illegally possessing a firearm, according to a guilty plea entered yesterday in federal court. Gray’s conviction adds another name to the city’s relentless struggle against the opioid crisis and gun violence, issues that continue to plague Baltimore’s streets. The case, spearheaded…
Armando Garcia, Humvee Theft, California 2024
Armed with nothing but ambition and an unlicensed Humvee, Armando Garcia, 30, of Pomona, turned a routine military equipment storage into a high-speed spectacle. Today, the consequences caught up to him as Garcia was sentenced to 34 months in federal prison for his audacious theft of a U.S. Army Reserve Center’s High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled…
