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News Releases

Stay up-to-date with the latest news from Secret Service.


Aug

17

2018

LOS ANGELES – Federal authorities have arrested 12 defendants on federal narcotics and fraud charges stemming from an investigation into the Puente 13 street gang. Those arrested last night and this morning are among 17 defendants…

Aug

13

2018

CINCINNATI – Rodney D. Cydrus, 48, formerly of Chillicothe, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 36 months in federal prison for mailing threatening letters to federal officials. Cydrus was an inmate at Lebanon Correctional…

Aug

13

2018

CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA – Travis Knight, of Mingo Junction, Ohio, was sentenced today to 37 months incarceration for counterfeit currency charges, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.

Knight, age 33, pled…

Aug

13

2018

(MOBILE, AL) – The Mobile Police Department, U.S. Secret Service Mobile Resident Office and Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office are proud to announce the opening of a regional law enforcement center, built on establishing multi-agency…

Aug

10

2018

United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that an Upper Marlboro, Maryland, man convicted of Aiding and Abetting Aggravated Identity Theft was sentenced on August 6, 2018, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court…

Aug

10

2018

(Washington, D.C.) The U.S. Secret Service has worked closely for weeks with the Metropolitan Police Department, the U.S. Park Police, the National Park Service and our other regional partners in the District of Columbia to ensure…

Aug

10

2018

The United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Katie Stygles, 29, of Piermont, New Hampshire, was sentenced today in United States District Court in Rutland to five years of probation following her guilty…

Aug

06

2018

HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Henry Okpalefe, age 50, currently incarcerated and formerly of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, was sentenced to 216 months’…

Aug

06

2018

United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that ALEX SAUNDERS age 26, a resident of Jamaica and student athlete at Southern University in New Orleans, was charged on August 3, 2018, in a one-count Bill of Information with…

Aug

06

2018

Jackson, TN – A West Tennessee woman was sentenced to 27 months in federal prison for wire fraud. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant for the Western District of Tennessee announced the sentence today.

According to the…

Aug

02

2018

(Washington, D.C.) On Thursday, August 2, 2018, The Guardian published an article by Nick Hopkins entitled, Exclusive: suspected Russian spy found working at US embassy in Moscow. The article is wrought with irresponsible and inaccurate…

Aug

02

2018

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — John Lamont Winn, 53, of Vallejo, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Troy L. Nunley to two years and nine months in prison for passing counterfeit $100 bills, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced…

Jul

31

2018

SHREVEPORT, La. – United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced today that two men from Austin, Texas, were sentenced for using a credit card skimmer to steal people’s identities, then create fake credit cards and steal thousands of dollars…

Jul

31

2018

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – A former employee of the Jasper R-5 School District was sentenced in federal court today for embezzling more than $145,000 from the district.

Karla Justice, also known as Karla Jessee, 56, of Columbus,…

Jul

31

2018

ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA – Anthony Francis Silvester, III, of Elkins, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 30 months incarceration for making and possessing counterfeit money, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.