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News Releases

Stay up-to-date with the latest news from Secret Service.

Feb

29

2024

New York - Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, an indictment charging defendants with fraud and aggravated identity theft for various ATM skimming-related crimes perpetrated between May 2022 and February 2023, was partially…

Feb

21

2024

MILWAUKEE – On Feb. 21, the U.S. Secret Service released a map of the general areas expected to be affected by the operational security plan for the 2024 Republican National Convention.

Feb

20

2024

Montgomery, AL – Today, Acting United States Attorney Jonathan S. Ross, along with Alabama Securities Commission Director Amanda Senn, announced that a federal judge sentenced Nicholas Houston Allen, 36, a resident of Montgomery, Alabama, to 76…

Feb

15

2024

CONCORD, NH – A Hampton man pleaded guilty today in federal court to four separate fraud schemes involving a total intended loss of approximately $2.1 million, U.S. Attorney Jane E. Young announces.   

Anthony Silva, 39, pleaded…

Feb

09

2024

ALBANY, GA –A Florida resident who is already serving more than a decade in federal prison for committing fraud in his home state pleaded guilty this week to a new aggravated identity theft charge in Southwest Georgia after being caught…

Feb

02

2024

OKLAHOMA CITY – United States Attorney Robert J. Troester, Anand Ramlall, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Office of Inspector General (FDIC OIG), and David Thompson, Special Agent in Charge of the United…

Feb

02

2024

An indictment was unsealed on Tuesday charging a Belarusian and Cypriot national with money laundering conspiracy and operation of an unlicensed money services business.

According to the indictment, between 2011 and July 2017, Aliaksandr…

Feb

02

2024

OKLAHOMA CITY – United States Attorney Robert J. Troester, Anand Ramlall, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Office of Inspector General (FDIC OIG), and David Thompson, Special Agent in Charge of the United…

Jan

30

2024

DALLAS - A Mansfield, Texas, man who used Snapchat to inappropriately communicate with 14-year-old boy was sentenced Friday to 210 months in Federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Leigha Simonton.

Jan

29

2024

DUBLIN, GA -  A Georgia woman was sentenced to five years in prison and ordered to repay more than half a million dollars she fraudulently obtained from COVID-19 small business relief programs.

Gladys Harun, 44, of Byron, Ga., was…

Jan

29

2024

HAGATNA, GUAM – Shawn N. Anderson, United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, announced that defendant Julien Abat Weymouth, age 32, from Dededo, Guam was sentenced to 30 months imprisonment.  He was…

Jan

26

2024

PHOENIX –David Michael Hanson, 41, of Phoenix, was arrested on Wednesday for making online threats against the President and Vice-President. Hanson was charged by Federal criminal complaint on Tuesday with five counts of Threats Against the…

Jan

25

2024

FORT LAUDERDALE, FL - The Fort Lauderdale Police Department (FLPD) is announcing the recovery of nearly $1.2 million after a thorough and complicated investigation into a nationwide construction fraud scheme. The City of Fort Lauderdale was…

Jan

24

2024

WASHINGTON – United States Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle has announced the promotion of Brian Lambert to the position of Assistant Director for the Secret Service’s Office of Investigations, effective Jan. 28. 

In this…

Jan

23

2024

JACKSONVILLE, FL – A Florida woman was sentenced today to two years in prison for a scheme to file false tax returns and to two years in prison for an unrelated online romance scam. The two sentences are to run concurrently with each other.…