Tag: March 2017
Donald Hicklin, Bank Fraud and Identity Theft Conspiracy, Virginia 2023
Lynchburg, VIRGINIA – In a gritty tale of financial deception, Donald Hicklin, 39, a North Carolina con man, has been handed a 98-month sentence for masterminding a bank fraud and identity theft conspiracy. The revelation comes from the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Lynchburg, as Acting United States Attorney…
B Scott Bass, Prison Contraband Smuggling, United States Virgin Islands 2016
St. Croix, USVI – B Scott Bass, 43, has been hit with a heavy charge after pleading guilty to providing contraband in prison, according to Acting United States Attorney Joycelyn Hewlett. The grim details emerged that on May 18, 2016, Bass visited the Golden Grove Adult Correctional Facility, intent on delivering personal items to detainee…
Marvin Wayne Magnan, Aggravated Sexual Abuse, Wyoming 2017
Ethete, WY – A Wyoming man will spend the vast majority of his life behind bars after receiving a staggering 108-year sentence for a litany of horrific crimes. Marvin Wayne Magnan, 63, of Ethete, was sentenced March 28, 2017, by Federal District Court Judge Scott W. Skavdahl on two counts of aggravated sexual abuse; six…
Freddie Kennedy Jr, Drug Trafficking, Conspiracy to Distribute Oxycodone, Kentucky 2013
PIKEVILLE, Ky. — In a grim turn of justice, Freddie Kennedy, Jr., has been handed four consecutive life sentences for his heinous crimes of drug trafficking and the sexual exploitation of minors. The federal judge Amul Thapar imposed the severe sentence on Wednesday, leaving Kennedy without hope of parole. The charges included one count of…
JAMES BOSTIC, Contraband Cell Phone Possession, North Carolina 2023
WILMINGTON, NC – Five inmates serving time at Butner Correctional Institute are facing additional federal charges after a grand jury returned indictments accusing them of possessing contraband cell phones. The indictments, announced by U.S. Attorney John Stuart Bruce for the Eastern District of North Carolina, represent a crackdown on illicit communication within the prison walls.…
Tigran Svadjian, Healthcare Fraud, California 2002
LOS ANGELES – A medical doctor, Tigran Svadjian, 58, who escaped the United States in 2002 by faking his own death to evade healthcare fraud charges, was handed a 29-month federal prison sentence this afternoon. Svadjian, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Armenia, lived in Newport Beach before fleeing to Russia in September 2002, according to…
Giovanny Ochoa, Narcotics Trafficking, California 2016 Aveline Villalba, Narcotics Trafficking, California 2016
LOS ANGELES – Ten members and associates of the notorious 18th Street gang are off the streets after a coordinated federal takedown targeting their narcotics and weapons trafficking, authorities announced Wednesday. The sweep, a multi-agency effort led by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigation (HSI), represents a significant blow to the gang’s operations…
Angela M. Craig, Wire Fraud, Massachusetts 2017
Related Federal Cases Ware Nabbed in $810K Tax Refund Heist · Massachusetts Live Nation Faces Lone Fight: NY AG Rejects DOJ Deal · Washington Live Nation & Ticketmaster Face Antitrust Fight in NY · Washington Rafal Lied to SEC, Lands Probation & Lifetime Ban · Massachusetts Michael S. Flynn Pleads Guilty to Rigging $45M Insulation…
Janel McDonald, U.S. Treasury Check Cashing Conspiracy, California 2015
OAKLAND—In a grim twist of justice, Janel McDonald, 38, from Los Angeles, has been convicted by a federal jury for her involvement in a conspiracy to cash stolen and fraudulently obtained U.S. Treasury checks, according to U.S. Attorney Brian J. Stretch and Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax…
Hector Chavez Sr, Lying to Federal Agents, Texas 2024
GRIMY TIMES: 68-year-old former Eagle Pass City Manager Hector Chavez, Sr., has copped to lying to FBI agents during their probe into a ‘pay-to-play’ scheme involving Maverick County contracts. The admission came this afternoon as United States Attorney Richard Durbin, Jr., and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division, made the revelation.…
