Tag: February 2017
George Heaton, Bank Fraud, Florida 2009
WEST PALM BEACH, FL – A nine-count Superseding Indictment was unsealed today, charging three individuals with a brazen mortgage fraud scheme that siphoned over $20 million from FDIC-insured lenders. The scheme, operating between 2006 and 2009, centered around the Vero Beach Hotel and Club, a luxury ocean-front condo-tel, and involved the systematic concealment of incentives…
Shawn Isom, Heroin Trafficking, Pennsylvania 2017
SCRANTON—In a major blow to Pennsylvania’s drug trade, Shawn Isom, 45, of Scranton, was handed a 70-month prison sentence by U.S. District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani on February 27, 2017, for trafficking in heroin. The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania revealed that Isom had pleaded guilty to possession with…
Amalia López-Santiago, Embezzlement, Massachusetts 2016
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John Fricovsky, Distribution of Child Pornography, New Jersey 2017
John Fricovsky, 57, of Edison, New Jersey, has admitted to distributing and possessing images of child sexual abuse, in a disturbing case that highlights the darker side of the internet. Fricovsky pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge John Michael Vazquez in Newark federal court to an information charging him with one count of distribution of…
Dimitrous Jefferson, Cocaine Conspiracy, USVI 2024
ST. CROIX, USVI – In a shocking turn of events, 27-year-old Dimitrous Jefferson of St. Croix has pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiracy to possess a controlled substance with intent to distribute, a charge that could land him behind bars for up to two decades. The case took an ominous twist on May 4,…
Crystal S. Jackson, Tax Identity Theft, Illinois 2016
ROCKFORD, IL – CRYSTAL S. JACKSON, 29, of Rockford, will spend the next four years and three months in federal prison after being sentenced today for a brazen scheme to defraud the United States Treasury. U.S. District Judge Frederick J. Kapala delivered the sentence, a harsh rebuke to Jackson’s calculated exploitation of stolen identities and…
Christopher Belt, Bank Robbery with Firearm, Georgia 2016
COLUMBUS, GA – A brazen daylight robbery at a Wells Fargo branch on Milgen Road has led to a guilty plea from 26-year-old Christopher Belt of Columbus, Georgia. Belt admitted to robbing the bank on March 18, 2016, brandishing a firearm and making off with $8,101. The plea came after a jury had been selected,…
Alexander Posobilov, Microelectronics Export Conspiracy, New York 2012
United States District Court in Brooklyn served up a heavy dose of justice today as Alexander Posobilov was sentenced to 135 months’ imprisonment for conspiring to export microelectronics to the Russian military and attempting to launder money. This gritty saga began in October 2012 when Posobilov, along with ten other individuals and two corporations, ARC…
Michael Angelo Strubhar, Methamphetamine Conspiracy, New Mexico 2023
ALBUQUERQUE – The grim streets of Las Cruces witnessed a hard sentence today as Michael Angelo Strubhar, 47, was handed a 41-month prison term, followed by three years of supervised release. The U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez and Special Agent in Charge Will R. Glaspy of the DEA’s El Paso Division announced the sentence for…
Eric Charles Murray, Conspiracy to Commit Bank, Mail, and Wire Fraud, Virginia 2016
NEWPORT NEWS, VA – Eric Charles Murray, 32, of Hampton, Virginia, is headed to federal prison for nearly eight years after running a brazen credit card forgery operation out of his home. Murray was sentenced today to 88 months for conspiracy to commit bank, mail, and wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and illegally possessing a…
