News Releases

Las Vegas – Karon Ransom has been named special agent in charge (SAIC) of the U.S. Secret Service Las Vegas Field Office. With more than 25 years of experience with the Secret Service, Ms. Ransom most recently served as the deputy special…

San Diego – Jason Reynolds has been named special agent in charge (SAIC) of the U.S. Secret Service San Diego Field Office. With more than 20 years of experience with the Secret Service, Mr. Reynolds most recently served as the assistant…

STATESBORO, GA:  A man who referred to himself and his girlfriend as a “modern-day Bonnie and Clyde” has been indicted on multiple federal charges for the unlawful use of information gleaned in thefts from mailboxes, while his girlfriend…

Seattle – Robert S. Canestrari has been named special agent in charge (SAIC) of the U.S. Secret Service Seattle Field Office. With more than 20 years of experience with the Secret Service, Mr. Canestrari most recently served as the assistant…

Tampa, Florida – U.S. District Judge Virginia Hernandez Covington has sentenced Anthony Wayne Smith (58, Bradenton) to 18 months in federal prison for manufacturing counterfeit currency. The Court also ordered Smith to forfeit a firearm and…

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – A fourth Georgia man charged in federal court in Rhode Island with participating in a long-running scheme to entice homeless and transient individuals in the Providence area to cash counterfeit business checks in return for…

HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on March 23, 2022, Davida Algie Fortenberry, Laje Elise Ford, and Chartanae Ajanee Lovely, all from Oakland, California, were indicted by a…

NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that, on April 6, 2022, TIANNA HART, age 32, of LaPlace pled guilty to making a false statement to the United States Small Business Administration, in violation of Title 18, United…

TYLER, Texas – An Irving man has been sentenced to federal prison for his role in a cryptocurrency money laundering conspiracy in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston.

Deependra Bhusal, 46, pleaded…

The Secret Service has worked, and continues to work, with its law enforcement partners on this ongoing investigation.  All personnel involved in this matter are on administrative leave and are restricted from accessing Secret Service…

Miami, Florida - A Florida man was sentenced today in the Southern District of Florida to 200 months in prison for illegally distributing opioids at his pain management clinic in Miami.

Habib Geagea Palacios, 40, of Miami, owned…

Baltimore, Maryland –Keon Ball, age 45, of Baltimore, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to wire fraud conspiracy and aggravated identity theft in relation to multiple identity theft schemes and fraud schemes—including schemes conducted while on…

LEXINGTON, Ky. — A Morehead, Ky., man, Joshua Preece, 40, was sentenced to 300 months in federal prison on Monday, by U.S. District Judge Karen Caldwell, after pleading guilty to enticing a minor victim to engage in sexually explicit…

Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Patrick Freaney, Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the United States Secret Service (“USSS”), announced the indictment of UWEMEDIMO…

Washington D.C. – Ron Green has been named chairman of the U.S. Secret Service Cyber Investigation Advisory Board (CIAB). Established in September 2020, the CIAB is an investigations-focused federal advisory committee, dedicated to providing…