Tag: US District Court
Patrick Dallas, Mail and Wire Fraud, Rhode Island 2023
⏱ 2 min read A 38-year-old Georgia man, Patrick Dallas, has been sentenced to 24 months in federal prison for his role in a wide-ranging lottery and sweepstakes scam that defrauded senior citizens in Rhode Island and multiple other states out of at least $1 million. The scam, which involved bogus claims of winning large…
Julio Cesar Fernandez-Salazar, Unlawful Reentry, Connecticut 2024
⏱ 3 min read Julio Cesar Fernandez-Salazar, a 45-year-old Mexican national, has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for illegally reentering the US after being deported a staggering 7 times. Fernandez-Salazar, who has used numerous aliases, was arrested by the Connecticut State Police in Colchester on November 27, 2024, and charged with illegal…
Jermaine Fairnot, PCP Dealing, Washington 2022
⏱ 2 min read Jermaine Fairnot, a 46-year-old repeat offender, was found guilty of dealing PCP from his car in the parking lot of a recreation center in Southwest Washington, DC. On October 14, 2022, Metropolitan Police Department officers encountered Fairnot’s car, a Toyota Camry, at the King Greenleaf Recreation Center. Upon searching the vehicle,…
Johan Perez-Ventura, Illegally Reentering the United States, Ohio 2025
⏱ 2 min read Johan Perez-Ventura, a 27-year-old Guatemalan national, pleaded guilty to illegally reentering the United States after causing a head-on collision in Butler County, Ohio, that injured a Cincinnati Children’s Hospital nurse. The crash occurred in November 2025, when Perez-Ventura, who was deported in February 2019, was driving left of center and collided…
Laneka Holmes, Social Security Benefits Theft, Missouri 2017
⏱ 2 min read Laneka Holmes, a 45-year-old woman from Florissant, Missouri, stole $170,000 in Social Security benefits after her relative’s death on May 23, 2017. The relative’s SSA payments were deposited into a joint account, and Holmes continued to receive the funds from May 2017 to April 2025 without reporting the death. The theft…
Chase Kane, Cocaine Trafficking, California 2025
⏱ 2 min read A Portland man, Chase Kane, 30, has been sentenced to 12 months and one day in prison for his role in a California-Maine cocaine trafficking conspiracy. Kane pleaded guilty on December 10, 2025, and was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Portland. The conspiracy involved receiving large quantities of cocaine via…
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…
Raymond Lawrence Massey, Loaded Firearm Possession, Washington 2026
⏱ 2 min read A 40-year-old Seattle man, Raymond Lawrence Massey, was sentenced to 37 months in prison for illegally possessing a loaded ‘ghost gun’ after failing to register as a sex offender and absconding from community supervision in Washington. Massey was convicted in 2011 of assault with sexual motivation and was required to register…
Quentin Hall, Armed Drug Distribution, Georgia 2024
⏱ 2 min read Quentin Hall, a 30-year-old South Georgia resident with a history of drug distribution, was involved in a high-stakes game of cat and mouse with law enforcement on November 26, 2024, in Moultrie, Georgia. Hall was pulled over for a traffic violation but refused to stop, instead choosing to flee the scene…
Jony Galeano Lopez-Garcia, Unlawful Reentry, Connecticut 2025
⏱ 2 min read Jony Galeano Lopez-Garcia, a 27-year-old Guatemalan national, has admitted to unlawfully reentering the US in Connecticut, despite being deported twice before. Lopez-Garcia, who was living in Hartford, pleaded guilty to the crime before US District Judge Kari A. Dooley in Bridgeport. The incident occurred after Lopez-Garcia was initially deported in December…
