Tag: USDOJ
Cecle Crist, Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person, South Dakota 2026
⏱ 2 min read Cecle Crist, a 53-year-old Hot Springs, South Dakota, man, was sentenced to 7 years in federal prison for possessing firearms as a felon. On November 2025, officers from the Fall River County Sheriff’s Office and the Hot Springs Police Department attempted to arrest Crist on a federal arrest warrant. When they…
Debra Ann Vaughn, Bank Fraud, Iowa 2026
⏱ 2 min read Debra Ann Vaughn, a 67-year-old woman from Springville, Iowa, has been sentenced to 41 months in federal prison for stealing over $500,000 from her employer, a veteran-owned small business in Cedar Rapids. Vaughn, who worked as the company’s bookkeeper, carried out the sophisticated embezzlement scheme between 2013 and 2021. She created…
Matthew Kaufman, Child Pornography, Illinois 2026
⏱ 2 min read A monster in plain sight: Matthew Kaufman, 45, of Lena, Illinois, used Snapchat to entice infants and toddlers into creating child porn over a decade-long reign of terror. Kaufman, a registered sex offender since 2008, stored hundreds of videos and images of the abuse on his devices, violating his victims’ trust…
Roshard Carty, Wire Fraud, Washington 2026
⏱ 2 min read A 73-year-old southwest Washington retiree was swindled out of over $600,000 by a Jamaican lottery scammer who posed as a Publisher’s Clearinghouse employee. Roshard Carty, 34, convinced the victim she had won $22 million, but needed to pay taxes and fees to access her winnings. Between August 2020 and February 2024,…
Luis Miguel Sanchez-Martinez, Reentering the US without Authorization, Texas 2024
⏱ 2 min read Luis Miguel Sanchez-Martinez, a 33-year-old illegal alien living in Houston, has been sentenced to 42 months in federal prison for reentering the US without authorization. Sanchez-Martinez, who has multiple convictions for driving under the influence of alcohol, was found in Houston on August 9, 2024, with no authorization to be in…
Brandon Bosley, Insurance Fraud, Missouri 2022
⏱ 3 min read St. Louis Alderman Brandon Bosley thought he’d hit the jackpot after his car was smashed in a parking lot hit-and-run. Except the damage wasn’t worth the price he tried to inflate, and his scheme unraveled when the insurance company got suspicious. Bosley’s 2010 Toyota Prius was parked in a St. Louis…
Miles Clark, Sex Trafficking, Delaware 2026
⏱ 2 min read A 12-year-old girl’s Snapchat nightmare turned into a nightmare for her 22-year-old predator, Miles Clark of Sussex County, Delaware. The girl’s innocent online interactions with Clark quickly turned dark when he began sending her explicit videos of himself. Clark, who knew the victim was just 12, even described in detail the…
Christopher Summers, Threatening a Federal Judge, Florida 2024
⏱ 3 min read An inmate at the Florida Department of Corrections was caught and convicted of sending a chilling threat to a federal judge in Pensacola. Christopher Summers, 58, mailed a handwritten letter to a judge in October 2024, vowing to have the judge killed upon release from prison. The disturbing letter, full of…
James Stacey Porter, Distributing Child Pornography, Arizona 2017
⏱ 2 min read A Pinal County man’s sickening habit of sharing child porn online has landed him a 10-year plus sentence. James Stacey Porter, 59, used the BitTorrent network to distribute more than 3,500 images and 175 videos of kids being abused from 2016 to 2017. Porter was caught after an FBI investigation in…
Emily Wilson, Child Exploitation, California 2022
⏱ 2 min read A 43-year-old teacher at Plaza Middle School in Kansas City, MO, was caught in a child exploitation sting, accused of attempting to entice a 15-year-old minor into sex and receive child porn. Richard Villigram, an English teacher at the school, was charged with one count of Attempted use of Interstate Facility…
