Tag: Idaho
Shone Jem Bache, Abusive Sexual Contact, Idaho 2026
⏱ 2 min read A 47-year-old Fort Hall man, Shone Jem Bache, has been sentenced to 17.5 years in federal prison for sexually abusing a child under 12 on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation. The abuse occurred on multiple occasions, with the victim, a 9-year-old child, disclosing the trauma to family members and school staff.…
Miran Kostic, Attempted Naturalization Fraud, Idaho 2026
⏱ 2 min read Miran Kostic, a 66-year-old national of Bosnia and Herzegovina, has been charged with attempting to fraudulently obtain US citizenship by lying about his role in abusing prisoners during the Bosnian war. The crimes allegedly took place in the Autonomous Province of Western Bosnia, where Kostic was a high-ranking official. He is…
Miran Kostic, Attempted Naturalization Fraud, Idaho 2026
BODY: A Bosnian national with a dark past has been brought to justice in the United States. Miran Kostic, 66, of Boise, Idaho, was indicted last week for attempting to obtain U.S. citizenship by lying about his role in the abuse of prisoners during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. According to court documents, Kostic…
Mariah Dawn Russell, Fentanyl Trafficking, Idaho 2024
⏱ 2 min read Between April and August 2024, Mariah Dawn Russell, a 30-year-old from Fort Hall, Idaho, sold methamphetamine and fentanyl to an undercover agent on four occasions in Bannock, Bingham, and Bonneville Counties. Russell’s dealings ultimately led to her arrest in early October 2024, after she attempted to purchase 1,000 fentanyl pills for…
Cody Malosi Wilson, CPO Failure, Idaho 2021
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Cody Malosi Wilson of Idaho Falls, Idaho, has been ordered to pay a $150,000 penalty for failing to register as a commodity pool operator (CPO) and violating CFTC regulations, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced today, August 26, 2021. The CFTC’s order details that between August 2015 and October 2018, Wilson operated…
Devin Terrance Pickler, Child Pornography, Idaho 2024
⏱ 2 min read Devin Terrance Pickler, a 40-year-old man from Moscow, Idaho, was involved in a disturbing case of child pornography. In the summer of 2024, law enforcement received a tip about a social media account containing suspected child sexual abuse material (CSAM), which led them to Pickler. He had uploaded hundreds of CSAM…
Saul Salazar-Leon, Child Pornography, Idaho 2026
⏱ 2 min read Saul Salazar-Leon, a 46-year-old Mexican national, was caught secretly recording a 12-year-old girl in a bathroom in Idaho. The disturbing discovery was made in December 2024 by the girl’s mother, who found a hidden camera while cleaning the bathroom. The mother confronted Salazar-Leon, who claimed it was a mistake and begged…
Kacey Franklin James, Methamphetamine Trafficking, Idaho 2026
Pocatello Man Sentenced to 16 Years in Federal Prison for Trafficking Drugs POCATELLO, Idaho – In a shocking turn of events, Kacey Franklin James, a Pocatello resident, was sentenced to 192 months in federal prison for distributing methamphetamine, LSD, and Psilocybin mushrooms in eastern Idaho. According to court records, the Idaho State Police executed a…
Boniface Binene, Fentanyl Trafficking, Idaho 2024
⏱ 2 min read Boniface Binene, a 25-year-old citizen of the Republic of Congo, sold a tenth of a gram of fentanyl to 31-year-old Andrew Doyle in Meridian, Idaho, on May 3, 2024, resulting in Doyle’s overdose death. Binene, who pleaded guilty to the offense on November 19, 2025, was sentenced to 14 years in…
Daren L. Palmer, Ponzi Scheme, Idaho 2009
IDAHO FALLS, ID – Daren L. Palmer, of Idaho Falls, Idaho, is facing charges of operating a $40 million Ponzi scheme through his unregistered commodity futures pool, Trigon Group, Inc., the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced on February 27, 2009. The CFTC filed a complaint on February 26, 2009, alleging Palmer committed solicitation…
