Tag: NYC
Hiram Carrero, Arson, New York 2025
⏱ 2 min read In the early morning hours of December 1, 2025, a horrific crime unfolded on a New York City subway car. Hiram Carrero, 19, boarded a train at the 34th Street – Penn Station stop and set a sleeping man on fire using a piece of paper. The victim, who was locked…
Joseph Taylor McKeel, Child Pornography Possession, New York 2026
⏱ 2 min read A New York City public school teacher, Joseph Taylor McKeel, has pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography. The guilty plea was entered in federal court in Brooklyn, where McKeel faces up to 20 years in prison. McKeel, a high school biology teacher, was caught with hundreds of explicit images of child…
Lu Jianwang, Operating an Unlawful Agency, New York 2025
⏱ 2 min read A Bronx man, Lu Jianwang, also known as ‘Harry Lu’, has been convicted of operating a secret police station in lower Manhattan for the Chinese government. The station, run by the People’s Republic of China’s Ministry of Public Security, targeted Chinese dissidents in the US. Lu, a US citizen, was found…
Ronald Smith, Insider Trading Scheme, New York 2023
⏱ 2 min read Ronald Smith, a former registered broker in New York City, has been charged with running an insider trading scheme that netted him and his associates millions of dollars in illicit profits. The scheme involved stolen confidential corporate deal information from an investment bank in NYC, which Smith used to make trades…
Maximiliano Davila Perez, Cocaine Trafficking, New York 2023
⏱ 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…
Maximiliano Davila Perez, Cocaine Trafficking, New York 2024
⏱ 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…
Shane Daley, Voicemail Harassment, New York 2024
⏱ 3 min read Shane Daley, 40, of Galway, New York, wasn’t content to let tragedy stand alone. Hours after UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was brutally murdered in Manhattan in late 2024, Daley allegedly unleashed a torrent of digital cruelty, flooding Thompson’s family with voicemails. These weren’t condolences; they were celebrations of death and direct…
Maximiliano Davila Perez, Cocaine Trafficking, New York 2024
⏱ 3 min read Maximiliano Davila Perez, the former director of Bolivia’s anti-drug agency, is facing a quarter-century in federal prison after a New York jury convicted him of orchestrating a cocaine pipeline into the United States. The 50-something Perez didn’t just turn a blind eye to the cartels; he was on their payroll, guaranteeing…
Adam Sloan, Narcotics Distribution Resulting in Death, New York 2025
⏱ 3 min read Adam Sloan, a 32-year-old Manhattan drug dealer known on the streets as “Slug,” is facing a federal indictment after authorities linked him to the July 15, 2025 overdose death of a New York City resident. Feds say Sloan peddled the fentanyl that proved fatal, triggering a narcotics distribution resulting in death…
