Tag: Q1 2009
Border Jumper Dumped by Feds
⏱ 2 min read Belgrade, MT – Juan Diego Rojas-Meneses, 20, walked out of federal court yesterday after serving 219 days, but his freedom was short-lived. Judge Dana Christensen immediately handed him over to U.S. Border Patrol. The feds didn’t want to pile on jail time; they wanted him gone. Rojas-Meneses pleaded guilty to illegally…
Uxbridge Sex Offender Gets 10 Years
⏱ 3 min read Scott Morrill, a 52-year-old registered sex offender from Uxbridge, Massachusetts, is going back to the federal pen – this time for a decade. Judge Margaret Guzman handed down the sentence in Worcester federal court on March 13, 2026, after Morrill pleaded guilty to stashing hundreds of images of child sexual abuse.…
Fentanyl Killed Him. Dealer Faces Life.
⏱ 3 min read Elyria, OH – Roderick Cross Jr., 34, known on the street as “Chubb,” is facing a federal indictment for supplying the fentanyl-laced drugs that killed a man identified as J.K. on March 15th. Authorities say Cross knowingly peddled a mix of cocaine and the deadly synthetic opioid, leading directly to the…
Tax Collector Ripped Off PA Town
⏱ 2 min read Karen McGinnis, 46, of Mountain Top, Pennsylvania, is going to federal prison for turning her role as Fairview Township’s tax collector into a personal piggy bank. Between March 2023 and January 2025, McGinnis siphoned off over $400,000 in property tax payments meant for the township, Luzerne County, and the Crestwood School…
Tulsa Man Indicted in Brutal Attack
⏱ 3 min read Tulsa’s Quincy Jay Adams, 32, a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, is facing a federal indictment for a brutal domestic assault that allegedly went down in Indian Country. Feds say Adams attacked a partner with a firearm, then escalated the violence by strangling them. The attack happened sometime before today,…
Finger-Painting Fraud: $200K Medicare Rip
⏱ 2 min read Irina Segal, the owner of Bucks County’s Segal Arts, LLC, is on the hook for $200,000 after federal investigators uncovered a scheme to bilk Medicare out of funds meant for legitimate skilled therapy. Instead of the one-on-one occupational therapy she billed for, Segal allegedly provided group arts and crafts sessions to…
Vegas Viagra Scam: $2M in Fake Pills
⏱ 3 min read David Webber, 50, of Henderson, Nevada, built a nearly $2 million empire slinging fake Viagra and Cialis, according to a federal indictment unsealed today. For at least five years, since 2018, Webber allegedly imported hundreds of thousands of illicit erectile dysfunction pills from unregistered factories in India, then pushed them onto…
K$ Grift: Online Guru Cops a Plea
⏱ 3 min read Kenneth Thom, a 40-ish ex-broker known online as “K$” and “K Money,” confessed in Manhattan Federal Court today to fleecing investors with a classic pump-and-dump scheme. Thom, already radioactive in the financial world, built a slick online persona to lure victims after being barred from trading in 2011. He’s facing sentencing…
Tax Ghost Nabbed: $2.1M Fraud
⏱ 3 min read Tracey Hernandez, 39, of Burlington, North Carolina, is trading her tax prep software for a federal prison jumpsuit. The IRS-CI busted Hernandez for a brazen $2.1 million tax fraud, and a judge handed down a 25-month sentence today. She ran the scheme in 2021 and 2022, filing hundreds of bogus tax…
Oregon Man Vows to Kill Senator
⏱ 3 min read Donald Leroy Smith Jr., 51, of Woodburn, Oregon, is staring down federal charges after allegedly calling for the outright assassination of a U.S. Senator. On November 12, 2025, Smith reportedly left a voicemail promising to “kill” the senator and “put a bullet in your head.” The motivation for the threat remains…
