Tag: US Secret Service
Olena Oblamska, Wire Fraud, Oregon 2026
⏱ 2 min read A 42-year-old Ukrainian national, Olena Oblamska, has been extradited from Thailand to the United States to face charges for her role in a global Ponzi and pyramid scheme that took in approximately $340 million from victim-investors around the world. The scheme, which was operated through a platform called Forsage, was advertised…
Amanda Cangelosi, Counterfeiting, Louisiana 2026
⏱ 2 min read Amanda Cangelosi, a 40-year-old New Orleans resident, pleaded guilty on April 23, 2026, to conspiring to make and pass counterfeit $100 bills in the city. Cangelosi and her co-conspirators used genuine $1 bills to create the fake currency, attempting to deceive merchants into accepting the counterfeit bills as real. The scheme…
Dean DelleChiaie, Threat Against President, New Hampshire 2026
⏱ 2 min read Dean DelleChiaie, a 35-year-old federal employee from Nashua, New Hampshire, allegedly used his personal email to send a threatening message to the White House on April 21, 2026, stating he would ‘neutralize/kill’ President Donald Trump. The email, which was sent to the White House’s public-facing email address, claimed the president was…
Nathaniel Sanders II, Threatening the President of the United States, Florida 2026
⏱ 2 min read Nathaniel Sanders II, a 32-year-old Miami Beach resident, has been charged with making repeated online threats to assassinate President Donald J. Trump and other senior US officials. From at least January through April 2026, Sanders allegedly used social media platforms X and Instagram to post numerous threats against the President, Secretary…
Sean Langston, Possessing Device-Making Equipment, Mississippi 2025
⏱ 2 min read In a brazen cash card scam, Ohio man Sean Langston, 33, was caught on CCTV footage buying gift cards with cloned instruments in Jackson. Langston and his co-defendant, John Carleton Johnson, were pulled over in Rankin County on April 28, 2024, and found with 322 gift cards, 17 reencoded instruments, and…
Brian C. Sargent, Receipt and Distribution of Child Pornography, Ohio 2025
⏱ 2 min read Brian C. Sargent, a 49-year-old man from Bowling Green, Ohio, has been caught in a child sex abuse scandal that spanned nearly seven years. Between November 2018 and August 2025, Sargent received and distributed files depicting the sexual abuse of children. The disturbing discovery was made when agents from the US…
Ronald Jerome Woolfolk, Jr., Charity Fraud, Kentucky 2022
⏱ 2 min read Ronald Jerome Woolfolk, Jr., a 27-year-old licensed mortician apprentice from Lexington, Kentucky, was sentenced to 34 months for running a brazen scam targeting a charity that supports families who have lost children. Between August 15, 2022, and October 16, 2023, Woolfolk used his position at a funeral home to submit 23…
Luis Emilio Hernandez, Elderly Financial Scam, Florida 2022
⏱ 2 min read Luis Emilio Hernandez, a 45-year-old Naples man, pleaded guilty to scamming an 85-year-old Hurricane Ian victim out of $1.2 million in Naples, Florida, following the devastating storm in 2022. Hernandez convinced the elderly victim to write him personal checks for construction materials and repairs that were never performed. Instead, he cashed…
Toni Lee Mesh, Embezzlement, Oklahoma 2023
⏱ 2 min read Toni Lee Mesh, a 40-year-old former office manager from Vinita, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 46 months in prison for stealing over $700,000 from her employers in Pryor and Broken Arrow. Mesh abused her position of trust to embezzle funds for unauthorized transactions, including falsifying business checks after she was fired. Her…
Benjamin Rubin, Threats to Kill, Florida 2025
⏱ 2 min read Benjamin Rubin, a 79-year-old man from New Port Richey, Florida, has been sentenced to prison for threatening to kill multiple federal officials. In February 2025, Rubin began posting violent messages on social media, targeting United States officials and political figures. His frustrations escalated, and he started making explicit threats, including assassinating…
