Tag: US Department of Justice
Luis Antonio Tejada-Santamaria, Reentry into US, Virginia 2024
⏱ 2 min read Luis Antonio Tejada-Santamaria, a Salvadoran national, has pleaded guilty to illegally reentering the United States after multiple previous removals. Tejada-Santamaria was arrested in Chesterfield County, Virginia, on November 2, 2024, for assault on law enforcement and obstruction. This was not his first run-in with the law, as he had previously been…
Daniel John Standley, Child Sex Abuse Material Production, Washington 2024
⏱ 2 min read Daniel John Standley, a 37-year-old Okanogan County man, was sentenced to 25 years in prison for producing child sexual abuse material. The abuse occurred in Okanogan, Washington, and was reported on June 1, 2024, when the 11-year-old victim disclosed the molestation to a friend’s mother. The victim had been subjected to…
Eugene Spears, Methamphetamine Distribution, Wisconsin 2026
⏱ 2 min read Eugene Spears, a 42-year-old from La Crosse, Wisconsin, was caught with over 250 grams of methamphetamine during a traffic stop in Ferryville, Wisconsin on February 28, 2025. Spears, who was out on bond for a state drug case at the time, admitted to intending to sell the meth to multiple individuals.…
Tyler Briggs, Meth Trafficking, Wisconsin 2026
⏱ 2 min read Tyler Briggs, a 33-year-old from Mosinee, Wisconsin, has been sentenced to 7.5 years in federal prison for possessing methamphetamine intended for distribution. On January 29, 2026, an undercover officer with the Wausau Police Department arranged to buy a small amount of meth from Briggs outside a Wausau bar. When Briggs arrived,…
Ryan Leon French, Production of Child Pornography, Oklahoma 2025
⏱ 2 min read A Tulsa couple, Ryan Leon French, 47, and Lexie Renne French, 44, have been sentenced for coercing a minor child into having sex and recording it in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The couple’s disturbing crimes came to light in March 2025, when Lexie reported to the Muscogee Creek Nation Lighthorse Police Department that…
Jacob Butler, DDoS, Alaska 2026
⏱ 3 min read Jacob Butler, a 23-year-old Canadian man, was arrested in Ottawa, Canada, for operating the notorious KimWolf Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Internet of Things (IoT) botnet. The botnet infected over a million devices worldwide, including devices in Alaska, and was used to launch massive DDoS attacks, including one that reached a…
Juan Felipe Chalas, Identity Theft, Massachusetts 2026
⏱ 2 min read Juan Felipe Chalas, a 58-year-old Dominican man, pleaded guilty to stealing the identity of an American citizen from Puerto Rico to obtain a U.S. Passport and federally funded benefits from Massachusetts. The crime occurred in Salem, New Hampshire, and the plea was entered on a recent date. Chalas, who has been…
Victor Manuel Rocha, Unregistered Agent, Florida 1978
⏱ 2 min read A high-ranking government official turned Cuban spy, Victor Manuel Rocha, is facing the music in Miami. The native Colombian was convicted of serving as an unregistered agent for the Republic of Cuba and now the US Department of Justice is seeking to revoke his citizenship. Rocha, who naturalized in 1978, had…
Clarksville Clinic, Health Care Fraud, Tennessee 2023
⏱ 2 min read A Clarksville, Tennessee clinic is on the hook for $300,000 after a massive billing scam was uncovered. Pitts Therapies, LLC, doing business as Cornerstone Pediatric Therapies, improperly billed TRICARE for thousands of dollars in pediatric therapy sessions. The scam, which spanned from 2020 to October 2022, involved the clinic billing TRICARE…
Juan Carlos Hernandez, Reentering US Illegally, California 2020
⏱ 3 min read A convicted felon with a long history of crime, Luis Alberto Banda Acosta, 36, was driving a pickup truck in Bryan, Texas when authorities pulled him over on February 4, 2024. It was just the beginning of his downfall. As a Mexican national with multiple felony convictions, including failure to identify,…
