Tag: US Secret Service
Sebastian Bulacu, Bank Fraud, Oklahoma 2025
⏱ 2 min read Sebastian Bulacu, 37, Florin Radu, 42, and Valentin Cristian Alexandru, 36, three Romanian nationals, were sentenced to over 11 years in federal prison for their roles in a conspiracy to commit bank fraud through an ATM skimming scheme in Oklahoma City. The scheme, which took place in January 2025, involved installing…
Kristin Renee Zelonish Edwards, Bank Fraud, Montana 2026
⏱ 2 min read Kristin Renee Zelonish Edwards, a 39-year-old California woman, defrauded Glacier Bank of over $170,000 by depositing 12 fraudulent savings bonds at four different bank branches in Northwest Montana between October 2022 and January 2023. Edwards claimed she found the bonds while going through her deceased grandmother’s items, but witnesses testified this…
Carlos Banegas-Contreras, Bank Fraud, Oklahoma 2023
⏱ 2 min read Carlos Banegas-Contreras, a 47-year-old illegal alien from Honduras, was involved in a bank fraud conspiracy in Oklahoma, where he and others used fake identification cards to cash 178 fraudulent paychecks totaling $299,474. The scheme, which occurred in June 2023, targeted three check-cashing businesses and five branches of a local bank, with…
Thadius Wind, Online Threats, Maine 2026
⏱ 2 min read Thadius Wind, a 52-year-old man from Eddington, Maine, was found guilty of making online threats to kill Vice President Kamala Harris, Jewish people, Maine law enforcement officers, and Elon Musk. The threats were made on X, formerly known as Twitter, and were identified by the FBI in March 2025. Wind’s online…
William L. Upham, Threats Against President, Florida 2026
⏱ 2 min read A former Marine from Jacksonville, Florida, William L. Upham, 35, has been arrested for threatening to kill the President of the United States. Upham, who is also a former state prosecutor, made the threats in two videos posted on his social media accounts, where he called for the overthrow of the…
Trent Schneider, Making a True Threat, Illinois 2025
⏱ 2 min read A suburban Chicago man, Trent Schneider, 58, has been sentenced to three years and two months in federal prison for making a true threat to kill multiple public officials, including President Donald J. Trump. On October 21, 2025, Schneider posted a video on Instagram stating that people like judges, doctors, lawyers,…
Vincent Anthony Principe, Child Sex Abuse, Florida 2026
⏱ 2 min read Vincent Anthony Principe, a 55-year-old from Arcadia, Florida, has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for traveling to the Philippines to sexually exploit minors as young as eight years old. Between multiple trips, Principe abused four minors, documenting the abuse on video and publishing it on a child exploitation…
Stalin Acosta Paulino, Conspiracy to Transport Stolen Money in Interstate Commerce, Pennsylvania 2023
⏱ 2 min read Stalin Acosta Paulino, a 45-year-old Dominican Republic citizen residing illegally in The Bronx, New York, has been sentenced for his role in a complex fraud scheme involving the theft of cash from skilled gaming machines in Pennsylvania and Virginia. Along with numerous other individuals, Paulino traveled to various states, breaking into…
Theodore Brown, Rental Car Fraud, Pennsylvania 2026
⏱ 2 min read Theodore Brown, a 32-year-old resident of Pittsburgh’s Hazelwood neighborhood, was involved in a rental car fraud scheme that cost a rental car company over $800,000. From October 2022 to February 2023, Brown and his conspirators used stolen personal identification information and credit card numbers to rent vehicles, which they then rented…
Troy Lamont Rishell, Threats to Assault and Murder, Pennsylvania 2026
⏱ 2 min read Troy Lamont Rishell, a 48-year-old man from York, Pennsylvania, threatened to assault and murder a US Congressman in a series of profanity-laced voicemails. The incidents occurred when Rishell left eight voicemails with the District Office of the Congressman, with the intent to intimidate him while he was performing his official duties.…
