News Releases

PROVIDENCE – A Central Falls man who participated in a scheme to use the stolen identity of numerous individuals to open retail store credit cards and lines of credits, which he used to purchase tens of thousands of dollars worth…

SHREVEPORT, La. – United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that a federal grand jury returned a five-count indictment charging a Shreveport businessman with scamming more than $96 million from investors and financial institutions…

PROVIDENCE – A Central Falls man who participated in a scheme to use the stolen identity of numerous individuals to open retail store credit cards and lines of credits, which he used to purchase tens of thousands of dollars worth…

LITTLE ROCK—Cody Hiland, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, announced today the unsealing of an indictment charging Phillip Hill, a former Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) database manager, with…

Jackson, Miss. – Gonzalo De La Fuente, 23, and Alejandro Boynak, 35, both citizens of Argentina who came to the United States on tourist visas, were sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate to serve 17 months in…

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – Two local men have been ordered to federal prison following their convictions of identity theft, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Vernon Sonsteng, 56, and Michael Anthony Villegas, 33, both of…

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma – SUSAN MICHELLE TYSON, 51, of Yukon, Oklahoma, has been sentenced to 36 months in federal prison for stealing $467,352.43 from the Oklahoma Operating Engineers Welfare Plan, announced Robert J. Troester,…

Christopher R. Buse, 42, of Staunton, Illinois, was indicted on January 17, 2018 on one count of receipt of child pornography, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Donald S. Boyce, announced today. The…

ATLANTA - Quentin Pickett has been sentenced for operating a credit card theft ring that stole hundreds of credit cards that were being mailed to accountholders. Pickett and his co-conspirators stole credit cards from the secured…

SAN DIEGO – Daniel Stephen Wray pleaded guilty in federal court today, admitting that he was the leader of an elaborate scheme to steal identities and make and use fraudulent credit cards at multiple San Diego retailers.

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U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that TONY RILEY, age 49, of Empire, Louisiana, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Jane Triche Milazzo to committing mail fraud in relation to the BP settlement fund for the…

HAMMOND – The United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, Thomas L. Kirsch II, announced that Elbert Johnson, age 40, of Crown Point, Indiana was sentenced before U.S. District Court Judge James T. Moody. Johnson…

Two Brazilian nationals were indicted after police arrested them with two credit card skimmers, more than 250 counterfeit credit or bank cards and nearly $140,000 in cash, law enforcement officials said.

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CINCINNATI – Rodney D. Cydrus, 48, formerly of Chillicothe, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to mailing threatening communications. Cydrus was an inmate at Lebanon Correctional Institution at the time of this offense.

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma – A federal grand jury has charged JUSTIN LANE FOUST, 41, of Sulphur, Oklahoma, with defrauding Chesapeake Energy of more than $4 million through fraudulent invoices, announced Mark A. Yancey, U.S. Attorney…