Tag: St. Louis
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,…
Michael A. Driemeier, Child Pornography Possession and Rape, Missouri 2024
⏱ 2 min read Michael A. Driemeier, a 32-year-old registered sex offender from Bonne Terre, Missouri, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for possessing child pornography and raping a woman. The crime occurred in 2024, when Driemeier exchanged child sexual abuse material on Snapchat and committed the rape. He was caught by the…
Michael N. Jones, Wire Fraud, Missouri 2023
⏱ 2 min read A retired St. Louis teacher was brutally scammed out of $735,137 by a man she trusted. Michael N. Jones, 40, was given power of attorney in March 2023 and immediately began draining her accounts. He made over $12,000 in purchases using her checking account and even used her credit card for…
Alan Bill, Conspiracy to Distribute Controlled Substances, Missouri 2026
⏱ 2 min read A Slovakian man, Alan Bill, 33, has been sentenced to 200 months in prison for his role in operating a darknet market called Kingdom, which sold dangerous illegal drugs, stolen financial information, and other illicit goods between March 2021 and December 2023 in Missouri and worldwide. Kingdom Market facilitated thousands of…
Oscar Ruiz-Oliva, Hiring Unauthorized Aliens, Missouri 2023
⏱ 2 min read Oscar Ruiz-Oliva and Jorge Manuel Oliva-Paguada, two Honduran immigrants, were indicted in St. Louis for hiring at least 10 illegal aliens. The indictment, handed down on Wednesday, accuses the pair of knowingly and intentionally engaging in a pattern of hiring unauthorized aliens. Ruiz-Oliva, 41, and Oliva-Paguada, 37, were also charged with…
