Tag: Orlando
Ya Hance Pierre Boston, Possession of Stolen Firearm, Florida 2026
⏱ 2 min read Ya Hance Pierre Boston, a 33-year-old from Oviedo, walked into a pawnshop in Orlando on December 30, 2024, with a stolen Glock 9mm pistol hidden in his sweater. As a multi-time convicted felon, Boston was prohibited from possessing firearms or ammunition under federal law. He pleaded guilty on March 30, 2026,…
Christopher Delgado, Ponzi Scheme, Florida 2023
⏱ 3 min read Christopher Delgado, the President and CEO of Goliath Ventures, orchestrated a massive Ponzi scheme in Orlando, Florida, scamming over 1,000 investors out of at least $400 million from January 2023 to January 2026. Delgado’s scheme involved soliciting victims to invest in fake cryptocurrency ‘liquidity pools’ with promises of monthly returns. Instead,…
Christian Rou-Rey, Fentanyl Trafficking, Florida 2022
⏱ 2 min read Nine members of the notorious RMS/EBK gang in Orlando have pleaded guilty to fentanyl trafficking charges, following an investigation that began in December 2022 after an overdose death exposed the organization’s criminal activities. The gang, which operated in Orlando, conspired to distribute controlled substances, including methamphetamine and fentanyl, and often disguised…
Rene Mauricio Escobar, Payroll Fraud, Florida 2024
⏱ 2 min read Rene Mauricio Escobar, 55, and Juana Nelida Escobar, 36, two Orlando residents, have been sentenced for their role in a massive $148 million construction payroll scheme that defrauded the IRS and workers’ compensation insurers. The scheme, which lasted from December 2015 to August 2024, involved paying construction workers ‘off the books’…
Dr. Kerri Zavota, Fentanyl Trafficking, California 2022
⏱ 3 min read A brazen scheme to traffic fentanyl and other deadly controlled substances has landed a Volusia County veterinarian and her clinic in hot water, according to federal authorities. Dr. Kerri Zavota, owner of Veterinary Emergency Center of East Volusia, allegedly failed to track and record the handling and dispensing of controlled substances,…
Joseph Elegele, Money Laundering, Florida 2023
⏱ 2 min read Joseph Elegele, 41, of Orlando, FL, is going down for 3 years, 10 months for laundering $800,000 in a brazen online scam scheme. The scheme, which lasted from August 2017 to June 2023, saw Elegele and his cohorts swindle businesses across the US and in the Bahamas, netting over $800,000. Elegele’s…
Aaron Starbird, Sex Crimes, Florida 2025
⏱ 2 min read An Orlando man is accused of preying on multiple minors, coercing them into sex acts and producing disturbing online content. Aaron Starbird, 44, began chatting with an undercover officer in 2025, expressing a twisted interest in sex with minors, federal prosecutors said. Starbird’s phone was seized, and a search revealed a…
Robert King, COVID-19 Scam, California 2022
⏱ 2 min read An Orlando man’s scheme to swindle COVID-19 pandemic unemployment benefits has netted him six years and three months in prison. Dexter Ray King, 36, filed dozens of fake claims for Pandemic Unemployment Assistance across multiple states, using stolen identities and fake addresses. Once approved, King redirected the debit cards to his…
Omar Idonis Graciani Rodriguez, Fentanyl Trafficking, Florida 2024
⏱ 2 min read A brazen prison trafficker’s reign of terror has come to an end. Omar Idonis Graciani Rodriguez, 32, was sentenced to life in federal prison for running a fentanyl and methamphetamine trafficking operation from behind bars in the Middle District of Florida. According to court documents, Graciani Rodriguez used contraband cellphones to…
John Daniel Fowler, Child Abuse, Florida 2026
⏱ 2 min read A 65-year-old registered sex offender has been sentenced to six years in federal prison for abusing a minor on a commercial flight from Indianapolis to Orlando. According to testimony, John Daniel Fowler, seated next to the minor, began by asking to see a photo taken through the plane window, then repeatedly…
