Tag: San Juan
Sergio Ramírez-Payano, Machinegun Possession, Puerto Rico 2026
⏱ 2 min read In a blow to transnational crime, three men have pleaded guilty to serious charges in Puerto Rico. Sergio Ramírez-Payano, Juan José De la Cruz Natera, and Yanzie Vázquez González were involved in drug trafficking and machinegun possession in San Juan, Puerto Rico, between July 2025 and July 2026. The crimes were…
Luis A. Jiménez-Guzmán, Bribery Conspiracy, Puerto Rico 2019
⏱ 2 min read Luis A. Jiménez-Guzmán, a Puerto Rico Department of Treasury employee, pleaded guilty to a bribery conspiracy that cost the island $5 million in lost tax revenue. The scheme, which lasted from February 2019 to March 2023, involved Jiménez-Guzmán accepting cash payments and other benefits in exchange for submitting false information to…
Myrna Faria, Embezzlement, Puerto Rico 2026
⏱ 2 min read A former Social Security Administration (SSA) employee, Myrna Faria, has been found guilty of stealing approximately $1,812,455.10 in SSA funds in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Faria, who worked as a Social Insurance Specialist and Claims Specialist from 1991 to 2019, embezzled the funds from March 2012 to March 2024 by submitting…
Robinson De La Cruz Hilario, Violent Crime, Puerto Rico 2026
⏱ 2 min read Robinson De La Cruz Hilario, a Puerto Rico resident, was arrested by the FBI for making online threats of mass violence targeting the LGBTQ community and possessing illegal child exploitation material. The arrest was made after an investigation uncovered a pattern of alarming online activity between 2024 and 2026. Hilario made…
Luis Ángel Domenech-Acabá, Child Pornography Production and Possession, Puerto Rico 2018
⏱ 2 min read A San Juan man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for preying on a 15-year-old girl and producing a stash of child porn. Luis Ángel Domenech-Acabá, 35, was found guilty of producing and possessing child porn in a three-day trial last February. The evidence revealed Domenech-Acabá used his cell…
Juan Edgardo Negrón-Navarro, Child Exploitation, Puerto Rico 2026
⏱ 2 min read Juan Edgardo Negrón-Navarro, a 28-year-old from Jayuya, Puerto Rico, was sentenced to 30 years in prison for exploiting two female minors and producing sexually explicit images of them. The crimes occurred between April 2023 and November 2024, with Negrón-Navarro using coercion and persuasion to exploit the minors, aged 15-16 and 17.…
Joely Rodríguez-Villega, Lying to FBI, Puerto Rico 2024
⏱ 2 min read Joely Rodríguez-Villega, a 28-year-old woman from San Juan, Puerto Rico, has been indicted for lying to the FBI about her whereabouts on the evening of March 29, 2024. According to court documents, Rodríguez-Villega willfully and knowingly made false statements to FBI agents, which is a federal crime. The indictment was returned…
Two Brothers, Environmental Felony, New York 1995
⏱ 3 min read San Juan, Puerto Rico. For years, toxic waste tycoons Ramón Plaza-Gregory and Ileana Cortés-González turned a blind eye to the law, pumping filth into the air from their commercial incinerator in Aguadilla. The poison they spewed out was a direct result of a twisted game of cat and mouse with regulators,…
Juan Hernandez, Child Exploitation, Puerto Rico 2023
⏱ 2 min read HSI agents in Puerto Rico have busted two men for child exploitation, bringing a dark world of sex crimes into the light. Alen Melendez-Santiago, 25, from Toa Baja, and Edwin Mendez-Perez, 50, from Caguas, face federal charges for preying on minors. Melendez-Santiago allegedly coerced a 14-year-old girl into making child pornography…
Nixon Manuel Marino-Carreño, Cocaine Importation, Puerto Rico 2026
⏱ 3 min read A notorious cocaine trafficker from Colombia has been brought to justice in Puerto Rico, accused of smuggling the deadly drug into the US for years. Nixon Manuel Marino-Carreño was extradited from Colombia on April 17, 2026, after being arrested on March 10, 2025, at the request of US authorities. According to…
