Tag: Nevada
Fan Zhang, Futures Manipulation, Nevada 2014
LAS VEGAS, NV – Fan Zhang, a resident of Las Vegas, Nevada and Cambridge, Massachusetts, has been charged with futures manipulation by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), officials announced on September 29, 2014. The CFTC alleges that Zhang engaged in fictitious sales and prearranged, noncompetitive trades involving Las Vegas Housing Market, Cash-Settled Cheese,…
Daniel Shak, Manipulation, Nevada 2015
Las Vegas, NV – Daniel Shak has been ordered to pay a $100,000 penalty for violating a previous CFTC order, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced on March 30, 2015. The judgment came from Judge Emmet G. Sullivan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on March 27, 2015, and includes…
Oren Shabat Laurent, Fraud, Nevada 2016
LAS VEGAS, NV – March 9, 2016 – Oren Shabat Laurent of Israel has been ordered to pay $7.1 million in restitution and a $2 million civil penalty for defrauding U.S. customers through the illegal sale of off-exchange binary options. The judgment, issued by a federal court in Las Vegas, Nevada on February 26, 2016,…
Robert Levinson, Money Laundering, Nevada 2020
⏱ 2 min read Las Vegas, NV – A ruthless cryptocurrency cartel laundered millions, but the feds are cracking down. The Las Vegas Homeland Security Task Force hosted a panel discussion on cryptocurrency-related crimes, featuring federal and local law enforcement partners. Panelists discussed trends in cryptocurrency-related crimes, tools used to investigate these cases, and the…
Hilario Villegas-Espinoza, Reentry into the United States, Nevada 2026
⏱ 2 min read Two Mexican nationals, Hilario Villegas-Espinoza and David Carachuri-Terrazas, are headed to prison after pleading guilty to reentering the US after deportation in Las Vegas, Nevada. The pair was caught by ICE agents in the city. Villegas-Espinoza, 45, has a long history of crime. He was previously deported in 2009 and again…
Cesar Daniel Reyes-Rodriguez, DUI, Nevada 2025
⏱ 2 min read A drunk driver who’d been deported from the US three times before was sentenced to 30 months in prison for re-entering the country. Cesar Daniel Reyes-Rodriguez, a 38-year-old Mexican national, was arrested on April 26, 2025, in North Las Vegas for his fourth DUI since 2016. He’d previously been convicted of…
Christopher Gerard Ruiz, Fentanyl Trafficking, Utah 2023
⏱ 2 min read A traffic stop on I-15 in southern Utah turned into a massive fentanyl bust in October 2023. A Utah Highway Patrol trooper pulled over a car driven by Rachel Marie Aponas, 34, of Las Vegas, Nevada, with three kids under 10 in the backseat. The passenger, Christopher Gerard Ruiz, 42, was…
Cynthia Marie Marabella, Wire Fraud, Nevada 2020
⏱ 2 min read A Las Vegas woman swindled her boss out of $26 million, using the cash to buy high-end merchandise and pay off her living expenses. Cynthia Marie Marabella, a former controller at a Las Vegas construction company, conspired with her boyfriend to forge bonus checks, create fake bank statements, and send phony…
Michal Miroslaw Rokita, Photographing Defense Installations Without Authorization, Nevada 2026
⏱ 3 min read A Polish national was caught sneaking photos of top-secret US military installations in Nevada – and now he’s facing the music. Michal Miroslaw Rokita, 34, was sentenced to time served for photographing and video-recording vital US military installations and aircraft, equipment, and operations without permission. Between April 7 and April 14,…
Jesus Guadalupe-Rosales, Reentry After Deportation, California 2020
⏱ 2 min read Two Mexican nationals, Jesus Guadalupe-Rosales and Daniel Augusto Lopez-Conchas, have been charged with reentering the United States after being deported multiple times. According to court documents, they were both previously deported and removed from the country. Lopez-Conchas, 31, was arrested on March 29, 2024, by the Las Vegas Police Department for…
