Tag: FBI
Five Guilty in Feeding Our Future Scam
⏱ 2 min read A brazen swindle siphoned off $14.6 million in federal funds meant for hungry kids during the pandemic in Minneapolis. Five more defendants plea-bargained guilty in the sprawling Feeding Our Future scam, including Ikram Yusuf Mohamed, a 42-year-old leader who funneled $6.9 million to fake food sites under her family’s names. The…
Fresno ‘Ghost Gun’ Dealer Catches 6 Years in Prison
⏱ 2 min read A Fresno, California, man’s game was up when undercover officers swooped in on a smoke shop after spotting a gun in his waistband on a city bus. Felipe Macias, 28, was busted with a loaded ‘ghost gun’ – a privately made, unserialized firearm – in August 2024. His felony status didn’t…
Identity Thief Rakes in $114K in Fake Social Security
⏱ 2 min read A 69-year-old man from Arizona has been accused of pulling off a brazen identity theft scheme, posing as a dead man to swindle over $114,000 in Social Security benefits. Richard Warren Ralston, who lived in Auburn, California, at the time of the crime, submitted a fake application to the Social Security…
Violent Crime Wave Crushed in Southwest Missouri
⏱ 3 min read A week-long blitz by federal, state, and local law enforcement has netted 101 arrests in Southwest Missouri. The suspects face a staggering array of charges, including firearms, narcotics, and sex offenses. Operation Spring Cleaning kicked off on March 17th and wrapped up on March 19th, with 85 federal indictments handed down…
Norwich Man’s Relapse Lands Him 40 Years
⏱ 4 min read On the streets of Norwich, CT, a notorious figure known for cocaine trafficking has relapsed into a life of crime. Javon Morse, 30, previously sentenced to 60 months in prison for trafficking cocaine, was on federal supervised release when he got caught with nearly a kilogram of cocaine, four handguns, and…
Shiprock Woman Jailed for Unprovoked Stabbing
⏱ 2 min read A brutal attack on a woman in Shiprock, New Mexico, has landed Angelia Garcia, 35, a two-year prison sentence. On November 21, 2024, Garcia repeatedly stabbed Jane Doe without provocation, leaving her with serious wounds, including a stab wound to the back of her neck. Garcia confessed to the crime during…
Texas Professor Lured Students into $600,000 Fraud Scheme
⏱ 4 min read A Richmond, Texas, professor with a taste for deceit spent five gutless years running a brazen student financial aid scam in Houston, bilking the Department of Education out of a staggering $600,000. Emmanuel Finnih, a 43-year-old prof at a local university, pulled off the audacious scheme by submitting over 100 fake…
Feeding Our Future Scammers Get Served
⏱ 2 min read A brazen scam targeting COVID-19 food aid has claimed five more collars in Minnesota. Ikram Yusuf Mohamed, Aisha Hassan Hussein, Sahra Sharif Osman, Shakur Abdinur Abdisalam, and Fadumo Mohamed Yusuf pleaded guilty to wire fraud in connection with the sprawling Feeding Our Future scheme. The scammers, who included family members and…
Fresno ‘Ghost Gun’ Felon Sentenced to 6 Years
⏱ 2 min read A Fresno man is headed to the big house after being caught with a loaded ‘ghost gun’ on a city bus, authorities said Thursday. Felipe Macias, 28, was spotted with the grip of a firearm sticking out of his waistband on a Fresno city bus in August 2024. Undercover cops swooped…
Drone Smuggler Crashes in Kern County
⏱ 2 min read A brazen bid to smuggle meth into Kern County’s North Kern State Prison ended in disaster when the drone crashed into a field, but not before the pilot successfully dropped off a payload of 21.4 grams into the prison yard. The incident occurred on June 9, 2024. According to investigators, Jorge…
