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News Releases

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


Apr

28

2021

Tampa, FL – U.S. District Judge Steven D. Merryday today sentenced Simon Keith Angaran (50, Tampa) to five years and four months in federal prison for conspiracy to make and pass counterfeit Federal Reserve notes and for making counterfeit…

Apr

27

2021

LOS ANGELES – A man who claimed to be a tax preparer was sentenced today to 84 months in federal prison for defrauding his clients out of more than $4 million by falsely promising them huge windfalls from a sham federal program that…

Apr

26

2021

SAN FRANCISCO – Kinston Osagie appeared today in United States District Court to face a federal indictment charging him and Roland Ighiwiyisi, also known as Roland Osagie, with conspiring to commit money laundering and charging him alone in…

Apr

26

2021

SAN FRANCISCO – Kinston Osagie appeared today in United States District Court to face a federal indictment charging him and Roland Ighiwiyisi, also known as Roland Osagie, with conspiring to commit money laundering and charging him alone in…

Apr

23

2021

GREENEVILLE, Tenn. – On April 23, 2021, Tammy Lynn Hawk, 47, of Bristol, was sentenced by the Honorable Clifton L. Corker, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee at Greeneville.

 As part of a…

Apr

22

2021

PITTSBURGH, PA- A resident of Atlanta, Georgia has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges related to check fraud, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.

The indictment,…

Apr

22

2021

A Johnson County man who was arrested with 110,000 images of child pornography has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Prerak Shah.

Timothy Lynn Vandeventer, 55, pleaded guilty to receipt of…

Apr

21

2021

BOSTON – A Provincetown man pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston to distribution, receipt and possession of child pornography.

Kerry Adams, 61, pleaded guilty to one count each of distribution, receipt and possession of…

Apr

21

2021

PHILADELPHIA – Acting United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Robert Sean Harrington, 42, of Baltimore, MD, was sentenced to five years and four months in prison, three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay…

Apr

21

2021

An indictment was unsealed today charging Alan Lee Hardy, former bank teller at Chase Bank, with Bank Fraud, Acting U.S. Attorney Saima Mohsin announced today.

Mohsin was joined in the announcement by Special Agent in Charge Douglas…

Apr

19

2021

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – On April 19, 2021, a federal jury convicted Kent Lowery Booher, 64, of Harriman, Tennessee, a registered sex offender, of multiple sex crimes involving minors.  Booher, a disbarred criminal defense attorney, was found…

Apr

15

2021

Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MONTRELL DOBBS, JR., 28, of Ansonia, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill to 18 months of imprisonment, followed by three…

Apr

14

2021

MARSHALL, Texas – A Hawkins, Texas woman has pleaded guilty to federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei.

Brianna Clarisse Banks, 24, pleaded guilty to theft of government…

Apr

14

2021

DANVILLE, Va. -  Authorities in Durham County, North Carolina arrested Jorge Navarro, a former teller at URW Community Federal Credit Union in Danville, after two years of flight on federal charges of embezzling $617,000, Acting United…

Apr

08

2021

Dallas, Texas – Today, the U.S. Secret Service participated in the Texas Cybersecurity Summit. This first of its kind two-day summit included more than 800 senior cybersecurity executives  and included a key note address…