Tag: January 2017
Harold Schaefer, Insurance Fraud, Iowa 2022
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Shelby Sherrod Petties, Failure to Register as Sex Offender, North …
Fayetteville’s Shelby Sherrod Petties, a man with a history of sexual abuse against children, has been sentenced to 92 months behind bars for failing to register as a sex offender while committing violent crimes. The 33-year-old was handed an additional 10 years of supervised release by Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever. Petties…
Jeff Crews, Racketeering and Aggravated ID Theft, DC 2024
Jeff Crews, a/k/a “Fro,” age 25, of Washington, D.C., is headed to federal prison for over a decade after being sentenced to 121 months for leading the Simple City Criminal Organization (SCCO) in a sweeping racketeering conspiracy and aggravated identity theft ring. U.S. District Judge George J. Hazel handed down the sentence in Greenbelt, Maryland,…
Caleb M. Ayers, Loaded Firearm and Pipe Bomb Possession, MO 2024
Caleb M. Ayers, 29, of Garden City, Mo., is facing federal charges after a grand jury indicted him on three counts tied to the illegal possession of a loaded firearm and two homemade pipe bombs. The indictment, returned in Kansas City, Mo., marks the latest turn in a case that began with a routine call…
Timothy Carl Johnson, Theft of Government Property, Maryland
Timothy Carl Johnson, 52, of Fort Washington, Maryland, has pleaded guilty to theft of government property after orchestrating a five-year fraud scheme that bled $20,995 from federal coffers. As the former automotive fleet program coordinator at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C., Johnson exploited his authority over vehicle maintenance contracts to line his own pockets with…
Luis Cipriano, Cocaine and Methamphetamine Trafficking, New Mexico
Luis Cipriano, 43, of Las Cruces, N.M., is headed to federal prison for 144 months after being sentenced on cocaine and methamphetamine trafficking charges in two separate cases. The hard-line sentence, handed down in Albuquerque federal court, includes four years of supervised release post-incarceration, marking the end of a years-long investigation into a local drug…
Michael Erik Lindseth, Child Pornography Receipt, ND 2017
Michael Erik Lindseth, 44, of Devils Lake, North Dakota, was sentenced to 10 years and 3 months in federal prison for receipt and possession of child pornography, with an additional 5 years of supervised release tacked on by U.S. District Judge Ralph R. Erickson. The sentence, handed down on January 30, 2017, also includes a…
Zhi Xiong Chen, Tobacco Smuggling, CA 2024
LOS ANGELES – Los Angeles resident Zhi Xiong Chen, 56, of Chinatown, has pleaded guilty to a felony charge for illegally importing tobacco products. For nearly five years, Chen admitted to receiving 15,128 cartons of Chinese-brand cigarettes without a permit. U.S. Customs and Border Protection intercepted an additional 9,824 cartons at international mail facilities in…
Jill Marie Myers, Bank Vault Embezzlement, Texas 2024
McALLEN, Texas — For a decade, Jill Marie Myers played a high-stakes game inside the vaults of South Texas banking, stealing $1.25 million in cold cash and burying the crime beneath layers of falsified records. Now, the 42-year-old former teller supervisor at First National Bank in Edinburg — later acquired by PlainsCapital Bank — has…
Adan Hernandez-Nunez, Human Smuggling for Rape, Texas 2016
Adan Hernandez-Nunez, a 30-year-old Mexican national, is headed to federal prison for orchestrating a sordid scheme that combined human smuggling with sexual violence. The McAllen man pleaded guilty on September 29, 2016, to harboring undocumented aliens, but the full horror of his crimes came to light during sentencing when U.S. District Judge Micaela Alvarez slammed…
