Tag: New York
New York in 2009: Crime Rates on the Rise
New York in 2009 was marked by a significant increase in crime rates, according to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) program. The state’s overall crime rate rose by 4.4% compared to the previous year, with violent crimes accounting for a substantial portion of this increase. The FBI UCR program, which collects and analyzes crime…
Houston Woman Pleads in Cross-Country Coke Run
⏱ 3 min read Shannell Gosine, 28, of Houston, confessed today to being a key player in a drug pipeline that flooded the Northeast with cocaine. The feds say she was a courier and money counter, moving weight from Mexico, through Texas, and up to cities like Buffalo, New York between April 2023 and February…
Edison Execs Cooked $10M PPE Orders
⏱ 3 min read Two men are facing hard time after a brazen scheme to inflate the value of Edison Nation, a publicly traded consumer goods company. CEO Christopher Ferguson and consultant Brian McFadden both admitted in federal court to falsifying records and misleading investors with bogus purchase orders totaling over $10 million. The hustle…
Houston Runner Admits to Cross-Country Coke Run
⏱ 3 min read Shannell Gosine, 28, of Houston, Texas, confessed in federal court today to acting as a key courier in a coast-to-coast cocaine pipeline. For over a year, from April 2023 to February 2025, the 28-year-old allegedly hauled kilos of the drug from Mexican sources through Texas and into distribution hubs like Buffalo,…
Rikers Guard Milked $370K in Fake Injury Claims
⏱ 3 min read Todd Faustin, 43, a disgraced ex-correction officer at Rikers Island, admitted today to faking injuries during encounters with inmates to bleed the New York State Workers’ Compensation system for at least $370,336.79. The scheme spanned years and was exposed in federal court, where Faustin pled guilty to one count of making…
Bolivia’s Top Cop: 25 Years for Coke Traffick
⏱ 2 min read Maximiliano Davila Perez, the ex-director of Bolivia’s anti-narcotics force, will spend the next 25 years in a federal prison. The 50-year-old was sentenced today in Manhattan Federal Court after a jury found him guilty in October of shielding cocaine cartels and running the drugs into New York City. He was extradited…
Hamburg Mail Grab: $370K Stolen
⏱ 3 min read Alexandria Duncan, 23, of Buffalo, and her partner drained over $369,000 from Hamburg, New York residents and businesses last October. The pair systematically looted mailboxes using a stolen postal service arrow key between October 9th and 14th, cashing checks from the stolen haul. It wasn’t random; it was a deliberate scheme…
Bolivia’s Top Cop Caged: 25 Years
⏱ 2 min read Former director of Bolivia’s anti-drug force, Maximiliano Davila Perez, 50, learned his fate today in a New York federal courtroom: 25 years in prison. Perez wasn’t busting cartels – he was running product, federal prosecutors proved to a jury. Extradited from Bolivia last December, Perez used his power to grease the…
Miami Grifter Gets Probation for Perjury
⏱ 3 min read Michael Luehrsen, 41, of Miami walked out of federal court in Buffalo yesterday with a sweetheart deal: three years probation. But that’s just the latest twist for a guy already facing serious fraud charges. Luehrsen wasn’t just accused of ripping off the healthcare system, he then doubled down by lying about…
Jamestown Pimp Faces Life Behind Bars
⏱ 3 min read Kelvin Thomas, 43, is staring down a potential life sentence for running a sex trafficking ring and slinging dope in Jamestown, New York. The scheme unfolded between October and December 2022, targeting two vulnerable addicts and forcing them into prostitution at a residence on W. Main Street in Falconer, NY. Thomas…
