Tag: Middle District of Pennsylvania
Valerie Tallent, Methamphetamine Trafficking, Pennsylvania 2023
⏱ 2 min read A Snyder County woman with a taste for the high life is headed to the slammer for 14 years after being caught running a lucrative methamphetamine trafficking operation in central Pennsylvania. According to federal prosecutors, Valerie Tallent, 40, had taken over her incarcerated boyfriend’s lucrative business, peddling fentanyl, crack cocaine and…
Brayan Garcia-Vazquez, Producing Child Pornography, Pennsylvania 2023
⏱ 2 min read A 25-year-old North Carolina man has been locked up for 15 years for producing child pornography in Middle Pennsylvania, federal authorities announced. Brayan Garcia-Vazquez met a 12-year-old girl on Instagram and repeatedly had sex with her, recording one of the encounters and sharing the video with the girl. The victim’s mother…
James Robert Smith, Selling Counterfeit Products, Florida 2022
⏱ 5 min read A 79-year-old Florida man, Frank Suess, made a deal with the feds to plead guilty in a healthcare fraud scheme that peddled medically unnecessary foot soaks to desperate patients. Suess, aka Franz P. Suess, agreed to forfeit a commercial property he used to carry out the scam. Between 2019 and 2020,…
