Tag: Q1 2009
Five Times Removed: Serial Offender Jailed
⏱ 3 min read Jose Mario Cervantes-Luna, 42, is headed back to a federal cage after a judge handed him two years for his fifth illegal return to the United States. Federal agents in Houston collared Cervantes-Luna after he snuck back across the border in December 2020, ignoring five previous deportations – in 2004, 2011,…
Wheeling Doc Gets 41 Months for $2.5M Tax Rip-Off
⏱ 3 min read Nitesh Ratnakar, 50, a gastroenterologist and medical equipment manufacturer from Elkins, West Virginia, is trading his stethoscope for stripes. Ratnakar was sentenced to 41 months in federal prison today in Clarksburg after admitting to cheating the IRS out of $2.5 million between 2020 and 2022. He ran a scheme where he…
Chinatown Walgreens Robber Gets 10.5 Years
⏱ 3 min read Gianni Robinson, 28, is trading city sidewalks for concrete cells after getting 126 months in federal prison for a brazen series of armed robberies targeting a single Walgreens in D.C.’s Chinatown. Between July 2023 and February 2024, Robinson masterminded seven inside-job heists at the store on 7th Street NW, racking up…
Wheeling Trucker Fleeced COVID Funds
⏱ 2 min read Bradley Temple, 48, a former Wheeling businessman now squatting in Florida, just copped to a brazen scheme: ripping off $277,000 in COVID-19 relief money. The ex-owner of Righteous Brother’s Trucking pled guilty in federal court this week to unlawful money transactions. The feds say Temple lied to get the cash, then…
Mobile Spring Break Sting Nets 6 Predators
⏱ 2 min read Six men are facing federal charges after a sting operation in Mobile, Alabama, snared them attempting to solicit underage girls online. The feds say the men, targeting Spring Break hotspots, were making arrangements to meet with what they believed were minors. The operation, led by federal prosecutors in the Middle District…
Bankster Nails $25M Venezuela Scam
⏱ 2 min read Ex-Nodus International Bank CEO, whose name is being withheld pending sentencing, is looking at serious time after admitting to a $24.9 million wire fraud. Federal prosecutors in Alabama say the scheme stretched across the country, and brazenly blew holes in U.S. sanctions against Venezuela. The grift involved diverting funds and hiding…
DC Man Gets 10 Months for Wyoming Strangulation
CASPER, WY – Marcus Hazel, 32, of Washington D.C., will spend the next ten months behind bars for choking his girlfriend during a violent altercation in Casper, Wyoming last November. The sentence, handed down today, feels light to many considering the brutality of the assault, but federal prosecutors secured a guilty plea on an assault…
Felon Packed Heat, Gets 2+ Years
⏱ 2 min read RELATED: Billings Man Gets 46 Months for Gun Threat RELATED: cocaine-run/” style=”color:#cc0000;”>Bronx Dealer Gets 4 Years for Erie Cocaine Run SIOUX FALLS, SD – Robert Wolfe Jr., 45, of Sisseton, South Dakota, is headed to federal prison after a judge handed down a sentence of two years and six months for…
Meth & Deported: NH Dealer Faces Fed Time
⏱ 2 min read RELATED: Gift Card Grift: Feds Seek Victims SEE ALSO: Meth, Fentanyl, Cocaine Ring Busted in Akron ROCHESTER, NH – A deported Dominican national is staring down a lengthy federal sentence after admitting he flooded the Rochester area with multiple pounds of methamphetamine, cocaine, and fentanyl. Joel Castillo-Soto, 35, pleaded guilty this…
MO Man Gets 23 Months for Tax Dodge
⏱ 2 min read RELATED: Ex-Teacher Gets 13 Years for Sexting Minors SEE ALSO: Meth & Coke Pipeline Busted SPRINGFIELD, MO – Michael Robert Jett, 60, of Independence, Missouri, is headed to federal prison after admitting he stiffed the government – and the state of Missouri – on over $361,000 in taxes. Jett got 23…
