News Releases

HOOVER, Ala. – Today, the U.S. Secret Service announced the Columbia, S.C. team as the winner of the National Computer Forensics Institute’s (NCFI) “Cyber Games” competition.  During the competition, teams of NCFI-trained local law…

CAMDEN, N.J. – A California man was sentenced today to 51 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to steal 94,000 credit and debit cards from customers at approximately 80 Michaels’ Stores in 19 states and to then use that information to…

Greenbelt, Maryland – After a five-day trial, a federal jury yesterday convicted Francis Arthur, age 35, of Silver Spring, Maryland, for a money laundering conspiracy and for money laundering in connection with a scheme to defraud victim…

BOSTON – A Hull man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston in connection with submitting fraudulent documentation in order to receive CARES Act small business loans.  

Shane Spierdowis, 31, pleaded guilty to one count of…

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – A federal grand jury in Charlotte has indicted a Virginia man for allegedly orchestrating an investment scheme that defrauded victims of more than $740,000, announced William T. Stetzer, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western…

Miami, Florida – This week, a federal district judge sent six South Florida residents and one New Jersey resident to federal prison for their roles in a fraud scheme that involved stealing identities, creating and using fake foreign passports…

NEWARK, N.J. – A U.S. Secret Service-led investigation conducted alongside partners at the FBI has led to charges of multiple federal crimes related to internet scams originating out of South Africa against seven leaders of the Cape Town Zone…

Miami, Florida – South Florida native and former National Football League (NFL) Player Kenbrell Armod Thompkins, 33, pled guilty this week in federal district court to stealing other peoples’ identities to fraudulently obtain Covid-19-related…

Baltimore, Maryland – Kyell Bryan, age 20, of Kingston, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty today to aggravated identity theft in connection with his involvement in a “SIM swap” and cryptocurrency theft scheme.

The guilty plea was announced…

Earlier today in federal court in Brooklyn, Ivan Reyes Arzate, a former Mexican Federal Police Officer and Commander of the Mexican Federal Police’s Sensitive Investigative Unit (“SIU”), pleaded guilty to cocaine trafficking conspiracy. …

WASHINGTON – Danielle Bartley, 26, a former Capital One Bank employee from Silver Spring, Md., pleaded guilty today to taking part in a conspiracy that compromised the account information of at least nine bank account holders and…

COLUMBUS, Ga. – A former Columbus-based attorney was sentenced to federal prison and was ordered to pay $1.6 million in restitution for mail fraud after a U.S. Secret Service investigation revealed he had stolen a settlement fee from two…

Tampa, Florida – U.S. District Judge Virginia M. Hernandez Covington has sentenced Antoinette Thomas (32, Tampa) to three years in federal prison for access device fraud and aggravated identity theft. As part of her sentence, the court also…

PITTSBURGH, PA – Justin Sean Johnson was sentenced on Friday to the statutory maximum sentence of 60 months' incarceration for Conspiracy to Defraud the U.S., and the statutory maximum of 24 months for Aggravated Identity Theft, for a total of…

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – Andrew B. Collins, 32, of the 200 block of Main Street, in Hillsboro, Illinois, pleaded guilty to the charge of enticement of a minor on Friday, October 15, 2021.  Sentencing has been scheduled for February 14, 2022,…