Tag: St. Louis
Samuel Davis, Assault, Missouri 2023
⏱ 2 min read A former Northwoods, Missouri police officer, Samuel Davis, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for assaulting a handcuffed man in St. Louis. The incident occurred on July 4, 2023, when Davis, 28, was called to a Walgreens store about a man accused of shoplifting and trespassing. Despite the man being…
Arlin Alexis Bustillo, Firearms and False Permanent Resident Card, Missouri 2025
⏱ 2 min read Arlin Alexis Bustillo, a 34-year-old native of Honduras, was caught by St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department officers in an abandoned St. Alexius Hospital on July 31, 2025, with a large machete and two firearms, including a stolen pistol and a sawed-off .22-caliber rifle. He also had a fraudulent Social Security card…
Michael R. Throm, Receipt of Child Pornography, Missouri 2025
⏱ 2 min read A 46-year-old Maplewood sex offender, Michael R. Throm, was caught with child sexual abuse material again, landing him a 15-year prison sentence. On June 9, 2025, Throm’s probation officer visited his apartment and found two unauthorized smartphones containing the disturbing content. Throm had previously been convicted of possession and receipt of…
Matthew Braasch, Wire Fraud, Missouri 2026
⏱ 2 min read Matthew Braasch, a 48-year-old former restaurant manager, embezzled over $1 million from a St. Louis County eatery, using the company credit card for personal purchases, including $81,965 at Target and $29,801 at Vineyard Vines. The crime occurred while Braasch was managing a restaurant in Grantwood Village, Missouri, during the pandemic. Braasch…
Derek Rockette, Cocaine Trafficking, Missouri 2019
⏱ 2 min read Derek Rockette, a 53-year-old St. Louis felon, has been involved in a large-scale drug trafficking and money laundering operation from at least 2016 to 2021. Rockette, along with others, sold cocaine and laundered the proceeds, but lost over $1.5 million of it while gambling. He attempted to repay the money to…
Natavia Boyd-Wells, Medicaid Fraud, Missouri 2022
⏱ 2 min read Natavia Boyd-Wells, the 42-year-old owner of Touch of the Heart Home Health Care LLC, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for defrauding the Missouri Medicaid Program and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs out of $210,000. The scam, which involved submitting hundreds of fraudulent reimbursement claims, was perpetrated in…
Donald Eugene Fields II, Child Sex Trafficking, Missouri 2025
⏱ 2 min read Donald Eugene Fields II, a 62-year-old former FBI Most Wanted fugitive, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for child sex trafficking in Missouri. Fields provided sexual access to a child in exchange for cash and other items of value from his friend and co-defendant, Theodore “Ted” John Sartori Sr.,…
Joseph Burchett, Gun Sale and Robbery, Missouri 2024
⏱ 2 min read Joseph Burchett, a 26-year-old gang leader from St. Louis, was involved in a string of illegal activities, including the sale of guns to an undercover ATF agent and the subsequent robbery of that agent. The crimes took place in St. Louis, Missouri, between April and August 2024. Burchett, who pleaded guilty…
Latasha L. Frison, Tax Fraud, Missouri 2020
⏱ 2 min read Latasha L. Frison, a 39-year-old former tax preparer from Cahokia, has been convicted of filing false tax returns for her clients in St. Louis, Missouri. Between 2020 and 2023, Frison falsified information on over a dozen tax returns, resulting in hundreds of thousands of dollars in refunds that her clients were…
Juanell Carter, Felon in Possession of a Firearm, Missouri 2025
⏱ 2 min read Juanell Carter, a 19-year-old felon from St. Louis, was caught with a machine gun after a police chase on August 26, 2025. The St. Ann Police Department was alerted about a stolen 2024 Nissan Altima, which Carter was driving while wearing a yellow and black ski mask. After a brief pursuit,…
