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JIMENEZ CRUZ was arrested on September 6 and presented on September 7 before United States Magistrate Judge Sarah Netburn. The second defendant has not yet been arrested. The case has been assigned to United States District Judge Kimba M. Wood…

On June 26, 2019, a third participant in the scheme, Shannon Bentley (34, Sorrento), was sentenced to nine years and three months in federal prison. She was also ordered to pay $812,990.53 in restitution.

According to court documents,…

“These former employees abused their positions—and numerous unsuspecting victims—by allegedly using stolen identity information to steal thousands of dollars,” said U.S. Attorney Byung J. “BJay” Pak. “Identity theft remains an all…

Reginald A. DeMatteis, Special Agent in Charge of the United States Secret Service, Charlotte Field Office joined U.S. Attorney Murray in making today’s announcement.

According to allegations contained in the indictment, beginning in or…

Angel L. Morales, 52, is one of ten individuals charged in a series of indictments, informations, and criminal complaints filed in U.S. District Court in Providence for their alleged participation in one or more conspiracies where individuals…

According to court documents and statements in court today, between February and June 2017, a Connecticut bank experienced approximately 35 incidents of ATM skimming at locations in Stratford, Monroe, Trumbull, Greenwich, Fairfield and…

Benjamin C. Glassman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, and Yvonne A. DiCristoforo, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Secret Service, announced the sentence imposed yesterday afternoon by U.S. District Judge Walter H. Rice…

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,…