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According to court documents, between about January 1, and December 25, 2018, Dahl conspired with others to obtain money and goods through fraudulent use of stolen and fraudulently obtained PII. Dahl obtained mail stolen by other individuals…

Tanya Garcia, 40, of Whittier, was arrested at her residence this morning. She has been charged with six counts of wire fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft. Garcia is scheduled to be arraigned on the charges this afternoon in…

Judge Dever also ordered THOMAS to pay approximately $7.3 million in restitution to the victims of the investment and bank fraud schemes, the Internal Revenue Service and the United States Attorney’s Office and to forfeit an additional $7.3…

Wigfall’s crime first came to light on Jan. 26, 2019, when numerous local law enforcement agencies received calls that his Facebook Messenger account was distributing child pornography. Among the illicit photographs were images of…

The indictment was returned on August 8, 2019, and Finkler was arrested on August 15. He appeared yesterday before U.S. Magistrate Judge William I. Garfinkel in Bridgeport and pleaded not guilty to the charges. Finkler is detained pending…

Edmilson Rodriques, 20, of Providence, named in a federal indictment along with six others returned in Providence in April 2019, was found sleeping in a vehicle in a Culver City, California, hotel parking lot on August 19. Inside the vehicle,…

Charles Thomas Sebesta, 54, of Huntington Beach, is expected to make his initial court appearance this afternoon in United States District Court in Los Angeles. Sebesta has been charged with six counts of wire fraud, five counts of bank fraud…

According to United States Attorney David J. Freed, the indictment alleges that Blake mailed a letter to FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C. on March 29, 2019, threatening to kill President Trump and blow up the White House,…

According to the investigation, MCELVEEN used his position as BB&T branch manager, in Rowland, North Carolina, to steal the personal identifiers of two elderly customers to fraudulently obtain loans and credit cards in their…

On December 6, 2017, the South Mississippi Metro Enforcement Task Force conducted a traffic stop on Interstate I-10 in Jackson County. Duniesky Vizcay De La Cruz, a passenger in the car, was found to be in possession of approximately 528 “…

According to court documents and statements in court today, between February and June 2017, People's United Bank locations in Connecticut experienced approximately 35 incidents of ATM skimming at their branches. A joint law enforcement…

According to court documents, Pick was employed as an accountant for Company A between August 2016 and June 2018. Part of Pick’s duties was handling the credit card accounts of Company A.

Without authorization, Pick used Company A’s…

A federal jury convicted Randy Eugene Greene, 62, in April of 11 counts of tampering with vehicle odometers and 3 counts of bank fraud. U.S. District Judge Abdul K. Kallon sentenced Greene to 30 months in prison, followed by three years…

Tyree Thomas, a/k/a “Hellboy,” 26, is charged by complaint with seven counts of distribution of phencyclidine, commonly known as PCP; one count of conspiracy to distribute marijuana and phencyclidine; one count of possession with intent to…

Louis “The Coin” Colavecchio, of Cranston, was arrested in December 2018, when a six-month U.S. Secret Service undercover investigation concluded with agents executing federally authorized search warrants and seizing from Colavecchio’s then…