Tag: Detroit
James Richard Mathis, Methamphetamine and Fentanyl Distribution, West Virginia 2026
⏱ 2 min read On August 3, 2024, James Richard Mathis, a 31-year-old Detroit man, possessed over 90 grams of methamphetamine and 20 grams of fentanyl in Dunbar, West Virginia, with the intent to distribute. This was not an isolated incident, as Mathis had been coordinating shipments of large quantities of meth from California. His…
Arthur Foster, Sexual Abuse, Michigan 2025
⏱ 2 min read A former federal corrections employee, Arthur Foster, 41, of Detroit, Michigan, pleaded guilty to sexually abusing a detainee at the Cherry Health Community Treatment Center, a federal residential reentry center. On February 5, 2025, Foster, who was a corrections employee at the time, told the victim to meet him in the…
Nazaly Mason Smith, Check Fraud, New York 2026
⏱ 2 min read Nazaly Mason Smith, a 33-year-old New York man, has pleaded guilty to leading a multi-state check fraud scheme that caused over $1.5 million in losses. The scheme, which involved providing subordinates with fake identification documents and stolen personal identifiable information, was carried out across multiple states. Smith, who was originally from…
Peter Nwoke, Tax Evasion, Michigan 2011
⏱ 2 min read A Grosse Pointe Woods doctor was convicted of failing to declare and pay taxes on income earned from illegally selling controlled substance prescriptions and evading taxes on corporate income. Peter Nwoke, 50, was found guilty by a federal jury in Detroit for his crimes, which involved selling opioid prescriptions for $500…
Aws Mohammed Naser, Attempting to Provide Material Support to ISIS, Michigan 2026
⏱ 2 min read Aws Mohammed Naser, a 38-year-old former resident of Westland, Michigan, was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) and possessing a destructive device. The sentencing came after a jury convicted Naser last year following a five-week…
Teran Demonde Gordon, Conspiracy to Possess with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine, West Virginia 2026
⏱ 2 min read Teran Demonde Gordon and Devaughn Lamont Thompson, two Detroit men, were at the helm of a deadly drug trafficking operation that peddled fentanyl and methamphetamine in Harrison County, West Virginia. The duo sourced their lethal cargo from Detroit, selling it from a house in Shinnston, West Virginia, as part of a…
Pharmacy Tech, Prescription Forgery, California 2020
⏱ 3 min read A brazen pharmacy tech sold fake scripts for cash, ripping off Medicare, Medicaid, and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan for a staggering $5.6 million. Ali Naserdean, 32, of Dearborn Heights, worked at three metro-Detroit pharmacies from 2019 to 2022. Naserdean and his co-conspirator flooded health care benefit programs with false…
Michael Johnson, Murder, California 2020
⏱ 3 min read Aaron Height, a 25-year-old armed career criminal, is behind bars for 25 years after shooting a man in the chest in a brutal act of violence. The shooting was part of a six-week crime spree that left a trail of destruction in its wake. The crime spree, which spanned from October…
Terry Dawayne Catchings, Cocaine Distribution, Vermont 2025
⏱ 2 min read A Detroit man was caught selling cocaine in Vermont, breaking his federal supervised release. Terry Dawayne Catchings, 31, was sentenced to 30 months in prison after pleading guilty to two charges of distribution of cocaine and cocaine base in December 2025. Catchings was still serving a federal sentence of supervised release…
Catherine Spidell-Ferguson, PPP Loan Fraud, Michigan 2020
⏱ 2 min read A couple from Southfield, Michigan, swindled taxpayers out of $1.2 million in a brazen Paycheck Protection Program scam during the COVID-19 pandemic. Catherine Spidell-Ferguson and her husband D’Angelo Ferguson pleaded guilty to their roles in the scheme. The Fergusons submitted fake loan applications to the PPP, claiming each company had a…
