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Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers, First Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert J. Troester of the Western District of Oklahoma, and Special Agent in Charge Kathryn Peterson of the FBI’s Oklahoma City Division made the…

The defendant was arrested in Colombia on a provisional arrest request from the United States and subsequently extradited from Colombia to the United States on December 13, 2018. Magistrate Judge Tiscione ordered Gallo Rodriguez detained…

During the course of the scheme, the defendants illegally obtained $560,640.43 from the Bureau of the Lottery of Puerto Rico (the “PR Lottery), a division of the Puerto Rico Treasury Department. The United States Secret Service was in charge…

U.S. District Judge Brian M. Morris presided. Ferdinand pleaded guilty earlier to counterfeiting obligations or securities of the United States. In May 2017, the Great Falls Police Department and Cascade County Sheriff’s Office received…

A second defendant, Justin Robinson, 19, also of Washington, D.C., was sentenced to five years in prison on a related charge. Grover pled guilty in October 2018 to second-degree murder, and Robinson pled guilty to assault with intent to kill.…

He received twelve months and one day of imprisonment, to be followed by thirty-six months of supervised release, and ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $164,627.00. The Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation and the US Secret…

According to documents in the case, on September 17, 2018, Mr. Perry, who has a prior conviction for possession of child pornography, uploaded images of child pornography to an online service. The service reported this to the National Center…

“Fishing” is a term which describes of obtaining items from U.S. Postal Service collection boxes by utilizing common items such as plastic water bottles, duct tape, glue, and string. A device covered in a sticky substance such as glue is…

Appearing before U.S. District Court Judge John J. McConnell, Jr., Randall N. Levesque, 57, of Middletown, owner of Equine Insurance Services, LLC and Randall Levesque Agency, pled guilty to an information charging him with wire fraud,…

According to United States Attorney David J. Freed, the second superseding indictment charges Christy with transporting a stolen vehicle from Pennsylvania to New York State on July 7-8, 2018. The second superseding indictment also includes all…

United States District Judge Nora Barry Fischer imposed the sentence on Bruce M. Charles, Jr., 32. According to information presented to the court, Charles conspired and passed counterfeit $100, $50, and $20 FRNs throughout the Western…

Quinones, age 27, pled guilty today to one count of “Access Device Fraud-Use of Unauthorized Access Device” in June 2018. He admitted to his role in a conspiracy spanning four states that involved using skimming devices at gas pumps, using…

Gayane Hakobyan, 69, of Hollywood Hills, was taken into custody this morning and is expected to be arraigned on the indictment this afternoon in United States District Court. Previously in this case, Mikayel Hovhannisyan, 36, of North…

Louis B. Colavecchio, 76, was arrested by United States Secret Service agents as the agents, assisted by Coventry and Pawtucket Police, executed a federal court-authorized search of his residence. The U.S. Secret Service seized, among other…

Brueggemann pleaded guilty to a one-count federal indictment without a plea agreement. He faces a prison sentence of 5 to 20 years on the charge. Sentencing is set for March 27, 2019, at the federal courthouse in East St. Louis. This case was…