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Lucas Pimenta Diogo Das Gracas, age 23, was sentenced on April 11, 2019, and his co-conspirator, Diogo Miranda Araujo, age 23, was sentenced on April 1, 2019. Judge Bennett ordered the defendants to pay restitution totaling $41,116. Das Gracas…

Daniel Frisiello, 25, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Nathaniel M. Gorton to five years of probation, with one year to be served in home detention with location monitoring, and restitution. During the period of probation, Frisiello…

Benjamin C. Glassman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, Tracey Thanos, Special Agent in Charge, Social Security Administration Office of Inspector General, and Yvonne DiCristoforo, Special Agent in Charge, United States…

According to court records, on September 27, 2018, the defendant provided false identity information to three Home Depot stores located in Biddeford, South Portland and Windham to obtain credit cards. The defendant used his fraudulently…

AROSTEGUI was named in a two-count Criminal Information filed on October 10, 2018. CORREA-CISNEROS was named in a two-count Criminal Information filed on October 23, 2018. Both men pled guilty to one-count of Access Device Fraud and Aiding and…

Benjamin C. Glassman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio; Brad Geary, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Office of Inspector General; Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost; Tommy D. Coke,…

On January 23, 2019, pursuant to separate plea agreements both Shyria Powell and William Powell entered guilty pleas. Shyria Powell pled guilty to aggravated identity theft and William Powell pled guilty to conspiring to commit bank fraud.…

Manhattan U.S. Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman said: “Grevy Gerard Pierre-Louis spent almost 20 years engaged in depraved and extraordinarily violent sex trafficking of minor girls and adult women. As a result, he will now spend the next 30 years…

This indictment charges CIPRIAN VIOREL VARTOLOMEI, 38 (aka: Eric Rene Fuss, Dumitru Movradin, and Costica Andriesei), CATALIN PUSCASU, 36 (aka: Bjorn Ove Sigbjornsen and Jean Francois Margelli), and ION FLORIN OPROIU, 45 (aka: Dominik Gerza)…

Those crimes related to Ametovski’s operation of “Codeshop,” a website he created for the sole purpose of selling stolen credit and debit card data, bank account credentials and personal identification information. Judge Vitaliano also ordered…

In March of 2018, RAYBORN made several statements indicating he had access to guns and that he was planning to kill the President of the United States. The investigation revealed RAYBORN knowingly and willfully made the above statements…

According to court records, between May 27, 2017, and continuing until at least January 27, 2018, Ford and others stole and obtained without authorization credit and debit cards of individual patrons at the Landmark Plaza Frontenac Cinema in…

Odis Edwards, 40, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit access device fraud in January. In plea papers, Mr. Edwards admits he stole more than 1,200 credit and debit card numbers via the darknet and internet chat rooms. He and his co-…

A Federal Grand Jury indicted Bell and Seeger on July 18, 2018. The indictment alleged that between November of 2017 and April 8, 2018, the two had manufactured counterfeit currency and possessed items and equipment necessary for…

U.S. Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman said: “Beckish and Demaria operated a scheme in which they purported to sell dietary supplements to consumers online. In lieu of dietary supplements, consumers got nothing but headaches, credit card processors…