Tag: January 2017
Harlem Suarez, WMD Attempt, FL 2017
A Monroe County man was convicted today after a federal jury found him guilty of plotting to detonate a nail-laced backpack bomb on a crowded Key West beach to support ISIS. Harlem Suarez, a/k/a “Almlak Benitez,” 23, was convicted of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and attempting to provide material support to…
Jeremiah S. Loui, Migratory Bird Treaty Act Violation, NH 2024
Jeremiah S. Loui, a 31-year-old man from Dover, N.H., pleaded guilty in federal court to a misdemeanor charge of illegally possessing and selling a Northern Goshawk, a bird of prey protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. The plea marks the end of a federal investigation into a black-market wildlife trade operation run from his…
James Ricardo Williams, Crack Cocaine and PCP Trafficking, MD 2024
James Ricardo Williams, a/k/a Snipe, 28, of District Heights, Maryland, is headed to federal prison for eight years after being convicted of running a violent drug operation dealing crack cocaine and PCP in Prince George’s County. U.S. District Judge Roger W. Titus handed down the sentence today, followed by four years of supervised release, marking…
Jose Adrian Medina-Herrera, Meth Distribution, MO 2023
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – A gritty federal grand jury in Kansas City hit two Mexican nationals with a hard-hitting indictment for their alleged roles in a meth conspiracy that spanned state lines. According to grim details, Jose Adrian Medina-Herrera, 21, and Jose Farias-Valdovinos, 41, both residents of Mexico, are accused of distributing over five kilograms…
Loreto Kudera, H1B Visa Fraud, New York 2024
Loreto Kudera, 45, and Hazel Kudera, 43, a married couple from New York, New York, are off the hook for prison — but not for crime. Each sentenced to two years of probation and slapped with a $25,000.00 fine, the duo admitted to running a sprawling H1B visa fraud scheme that exploited foreign nurses and…
Ronald W. David, Disability Benefits Fraud, VA 2023
Abingdon, Virginia — A 58-year-old St. Paul man has been nailed for playing the system, lying to the feds to keep cashing disability checks he wasn’t entitled to. Ronald W. David stood before a federal judge today in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia and was sentenced for one count…
Michael Lackey, Union Fund Embezzlement, AL 2024
Michael Lackey, 44, of Bremen, Ga., has pleaded guilty to stealing more than $69,000 from the Communications Workers of America, Local 3901, in Oxford, Ala. The former union president admitted to a years-long scheme involving bank fraud and the theft of union funds, marking a betrayal of the members who elected him to lead. Lackey…
Shawn Howells, Child Porn Distribution, PA 2017
SCRANTON — Shawn Howells, 43, of Scranton, Pennsylvania, is facing federal charges after being indicted on counts of possessing and distributing child pornography, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today. The indictment alleges Howells used the internet between November 29, 2016, and January 20, 2017, to view minors engaged in…
Dahveed Dean, Assault on Corrections Officer, PA 2023
Dahveed Dean, a 40-year-old inmate at United States Penitentiary Canaan in Waymart, Pennsylvania, has been indicted on federal charges for assaulting a corrections officer in a violent September altercation behind bars. The attack, which occurred inside the high-security facility, underscores the dangers federal prison staff face daily. According to the indictment unsealed in Scranton, Dean…
Maria Josefa Munagorri Diaz, Illegal Re-entry, New York 2016
SYRACUSE, NEW YORK — Maria Martinez a/k/a Maria Josefa Munagorri Diaz, age 49, of Madrid, Spain, pleaded guilty yesterday to attempting to illegally re-enter the United States — a brazen move that slammed her straight back into federal crosshairs. The charge stems from an August 8, 2016 incident at the Champlain Port of Entry, where…
