Tag: Ohio
Andrew Raymond Crum, Child Exploitation, Missouri 2021
⏱ 2 min read Andrew Raymond Crum, a 33-year-old Ohio man, began exploiting a 14-year-old Missouri girl he met on an online gaming platform in 2021. He drove to Missouri to have sex with her in February 2024, when she was 16, and exchanged explicit images and videos via Snapchat. The FBI was alerted in…
Laura Reyes Esquivel, Cocaine Trafficking, Ohio 2026
⏱ 2 min read In a major blow to drug trafficking in the Midwest, an illegal alien couple from Mexico was caught with over two kilograms of cocaine and a loaded handgun in their car during a traffic stop in Columbus, Ohio in June 2025. Laura Reyes Esquivel, 49, and Mario Gamino Sanchez, 30, were…
Jean Carlos Martinez, Attempted Possession with Intent to Distribute Cocaine, Ohio 2025
⏱ 2 min read A 42-year-old Youngstown man, Jean Carlos Martinez, was caught in a cocaine distribution scheme after a parcel containing nearly four and a half pounds of cocaine was mailed from Puerto Rico to Campbell, Ohio, on January 23, 2025. Martinez had planned to collect the package and distribute its contents. The parcel…
Johan Perez-Ventura, Illegally Reentering the United States, Ohio 2025
⏱ 2 min read Johan Perez-Ventura, a 27-year-old Guatemalan national, pleaded guilty to illegally reentering the United States after causing a head-on collision in Butler County, Ohio, that injured a Cincinnati Children’s Hospital nurse. The crash occurred in November 2025, when Perez-Ventura, who was deported in February 2019, was driving left of center and collided…
Eric Michael Spreitzer, Receipt and Distribution of Visual Depictions of Minors, Ohio 2024
⏱ 2 min read Eric Michael Spreitzer, a 36-year-old man from Streetsboro, Ohio, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for receiving and sending child sexual abuse materials through online and social media platforms. The crimes occurred between January 2024 and October 2025, and were investigated by the FBI Akron Resident Agency and the Portage…
Edward Wade Green, Child Sex Crime, Ohio 2024
⏱ 2 min read Edward Wade Green, a 54-year-old man from Aiken, South Carolina, traveled over 700 miles to Toledo, Ohio, with the intention of engaging in illicit sexual conduct with a purported 7-year-old girl. In April 2023, Green began communicating with an undercover agent on an online platform, expressing his sexual interest in the…
Deshawn Levelle Butler, Possessing a Firearm as a Convicted Felon, Ohio 2023
⏱ 2 min read A 21-month-old toddler is dead after accidentally shooting himself with an unsecured gun in Columbus, Ohio. The incident occurred on July 11 when Columbus police officers responded to a report of a shooting on Quinby Drive. Deshawn Levelle Butler, 35, the toddler’s father, was with the child during the shooting and…
Marico Keeling, Methamphetamine and Fentanyl Distribution, Ohio 2024
⏱ 2 min read Marico Keeling, a 36-year-old drug dealer from Hamilton, Ohio, has been convicted of conspiring to distribute large quantities of methamphetamine and fentanyl in the Southern District of Ohio and beyond. Keeling’s crimes took place between August 2023 and October 2024, with the defendant acting as a source of supply for nearly…
George Manuselis, Gun Smuggling, Ohio 2022
⏱ 2 min read George Manuselis, an 80-year-old dual citizen of the US and Greece, has pleaded guilty to smuggling guns from Ohio to Greece. In April 2022, a firearm recovered in Greece was found to be originally purchased at a licensed dealer in Canton, Ohio, where Manuselis resides. The investigation revealed that Manuselis had…
Sherman Thomas, Conspiracy to Distribute Controlled Substances, Ohio 2025
⏱ 2 min read Sherman Thomas, a 43-year-old Cleveland man, was at the center of a massive methamphetamine trafficking operation that brought drugs from the U.S.-Mexico border to Ohio. From July 2022 to April 2023, Thomas and his co-conspirators, including Melvin Hodge and a U.S. postal carrier, conspired to distribute methamphetamine throughout the Northern District…
