News Releases

(Washington, D.C.) The Secret Service is providing the following information regarding the investigation of an individual who gained access to the White House grounds on March 10, 2017. The Secret Service immediately initiated a comprehensive…

BOISE – On March 15 and 16, 2017, Alejandro Hidalgo, 27, Dilcia Martinez-Marquez, 27, Enrique Matos-Herrera, 30, and Jose Salazar-Quintana, 30, were sentenced to prison for using stolen debit card numbers to make over $30,000 of fraudulent…

BOSTON – A Mansfield man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with posting online threats to the President of the United States.

Andrew J. O’Keefe, 31, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge George A.…

An Akron man was indicted on firearms and counterfeiting charges, said Acting U.S. Attorney David A. Sierleja.

Abraham Lewis Addison, 27, was indicted on five counts of uttering and dealing in counterfeit obligations or securities and…

(Washington, D.C.) The U.S. Secret Service, New Haven Resident Office, successfully concluded a prison-based phone fraud and extortion scheme case against Darrik Forsythe when he was sentenced in U.S. District Court, District of Connecticut.…

In El Paso today, a federal judge sentenced 40-year-old self-proclaimed licensed investment broker Roberto Trinidad Del Carpio Frescas to 235 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for carrying out a Ponzi…

A federal grand jury returned an indictment charging Catherine I. Wilson, 71, of Bedford, with bank fraud after she embezzled nearly $300,000 from her employer, said David A. Sierleja, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.…

A Haymarket, Virginia woman pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Virginia to filing a false income tax return and aggravated identity theft, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M.…

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Two Central Falls women were sentenced to 3 years in federal prison today for their roles in a long-running scheme to use the stolen identities of more than 400 individuals on fraudulent tax returns resulting in the theft of…

Tampa, FL – United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Jordan Tito (23, Tampa) has pleaded guilty to aggravated identity theft. He faces a mandatory penalty of two years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set…

Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Tasha Ajibogun, age 35, of Mabelton, Georgia, pled guilty today in federal court in Florence, to passing counterfeit $50.00 Federal Reserve Notes, a violation of…

CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA – Anthony Francis Silvester, III, 37, of Elkins, West Virginia, was charged by a grand jury sitting in Clarksburg in a five-count indictment with making and possessing counterfeit money, Acting United States Attorney…

Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”) and James P. O’Neill, the…

Two Miami residents pleaded guilty today to fraud charges stemming from their roles in a $20 million home health care fraud scheme.

U.S. Attorney Wifredo A. Ferrer of the Southern District of Florida, Acting Assistant Attorney General…

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – A 43-year-old Corpus Christi man has been ordered to federal prison for counterfeiting U.S. currency, credit card fraud and aggravated identity theft, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Arturo Garcia pleaded…