News Releases

URBANA, IL – A Bismarck, Illinois, man, Jacob R. Kirkley, 48, was sentenced on May 2, 2025, to four years in prison for his second federal counterfeiting conviction, as well as an additional 18 months in prison for violating his federal…

CHARLESTON, SC — Daniel Cavey, 51, of Jacksonville Beach, Florida, has been sentenced to nine years in federal prison for his role in a multi-year wire fraud scheme to defraud a chain of home improvement stores.

Evidence obtained in the…

LAS VEGAS – A Las Vegas resident was sentenced today by Chief United States District Judge Andrew P. Gordon to 33 months in prison to be followed by three years of supervised release for a scheme to steal nearly $240,000 in unemployment…

Defendant Allegedly Stole DHS Secretary Noem’s Purse

WASHINGTON – Mario Bustamante Leiva, 49, a Chilean National who is in the U.S. illegally, was arrested on April 26, 2025, on a criminal complaint charging wire fraud, aggravated identity…

NEW YORK - The United States Secret Service, New York Field Office, announced the unsealing of superseding information from a prior indictment charging SAMUEL SELMAR for his role in running an advance-fee loan fraud scheme through which…

WASHINGTON, D.C.

Special Agent in Charge of the Secret Service Washington Field Office Matt McCool released the following the statement:

Special agents, investigative analysts, and technical support personnel from the Washington Field…

CHARLESTON, SC — Anthony Wilson, 42, of Florence, has been sentenced to 36 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to his role in defrauding a chain of home improvement stores.

The investigation revealed that Wilson, and a known…

WASHINGTON – On April 23, the U.S. Secret Service’s National Threat Assessment Center released a new behavioral case study, First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs: A Case Study on the Link Between Domestic…

BAKER, LA - Acting United States Attorney April M. Leon announced that U.S. District Judge Brian A. Jackson sentenced Erin D. Jones, 49, of Baker, Louisiana, to 30 months in federal prison following her conviction for wire fraud. The Court…

WASHINGTON – Investigative and Network Intrusion Forensic Analysts with the United States Secret Service Washington Field Office participated in Operation Avalanche, a coordinated operation with the BC Securities Commission to warn victims of…

ALBANY, NY – The U.S. Secret Service in the Northern District of New York has seized a second web domain used in a recent cryptocurrency confidence crime known as “pig butchering.” United States Attorney John A. Sarcone III, and Jeffrey Burr,…

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. – A federal grand jury in southern Illinois charged the former second-in-command of the Bank of O’Fallon for engaging in a fraud scheme to obtain more than $2 million.

Andrew P. Blassie, 69, of St. Louis, is facing…

MIAMI – Today, a federal grand jury indicted three members of a bank fraud conspiracy. 

Orelien Martial Nguepi-Tankoua, Jean Paul Bayoi, and Tamblyn Milton Frasier were implicated in a bank fraud conspiracy involving a stolen United…

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Secret Service, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, the Nevada State Police Investigation Division, the Nevada Gaming and Control Board, the Clark County School District Police Department, and the Henderson…

GULFPORT, TX – A Houston man was sentenced today to three years of federal probation and ordered to pay $51,294 in restitution for the federal felony offense of Knowingly Possessing Identification of Another Person in Connection with Wire…