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According to court records, on September 27, 2018, the defendant provided false identity information to three Home Depot stores located in Biddeford, South Portland and Windham to obtain credit cards. The defendant used his fraudulently…

On January 23, 2019, pursuant to separate plea agreements both Shyria Powell and William Powell entered guilty pleas. Shyria Powell pled guilty to aggravated identity theft and William Powell pled guilty to conspiring to commit bank fraud.…

Manhattan U.S. Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman said: “Grevy Gerard Pierre-Louis spent almost 20 years engaged in depraved and extraordinarily violent sex trafficking of minor girls and adult women. As a result, he will now spend the next 30 years…

This indictment charges CIPRIAN VIOREL VARTOLOMEI, 38 (aka: Eric Rene Fuss, Dumitru Movradin, and Costica Andriesei), CATALIN PUSCASU, 36 (aka: Bjorn Ove Sigbjornsen and Jean Francois Margelli), and ION FLORIN OPROIU, 45 (aka: Dominik Gerza)…

Those crimes related to Ametovski’s operation of “Codeshop,” a website he created for the sole purpose of selling stolen credit and debit card data, bank account credentials and personal identification information. Judge Vitaliano also ordered…

In March of 2018, RAYBORN made several statements indicating he had access to guns and that he was planning to kill the President of the United States. The investigation revealed RAYBORN knowingly and willfully made the above statements…

According to court records, between May 27, 2017, and continuing until at least January 27, 2018, Ford and others stole and obtained without authorization credit and debit cards of individual patrons at the Landmark Plaza Frontenac Cinema in…

U.S. Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman said: “Beckish and Demaria operated a scheme in which they purported to sell dietary supplements to consumers online. In lieu of dietary supplements, consumers got nothing but headaches, credit card processors…

Odis Edwards, 40, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit access device fraud in January. In plea papers, Mr. Edwards admits he stole more than 1,200 credit and debit card numbers via the darknet and internet chat rooms. He and his co-…

A Federal Grand Jury indicted Bell and Seeger on July 18, 2018. The indictment alleged that between November of 2017 and April 8, 2018, the two had manufactured counterfeit currency and possessed items and equipment necessary for…

The investigations during this sweep involved more than 24 defendants, five of which own telemedicine companies, dozens of owners that operate durable medical equipment (DME) companies and several medical professionals for their alleged…

Ariana Fajardo Orshan, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida and Brian Swain, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Secret Service (USSS), Miami Field Office, made the announcement. Alexander Hartman, of Palm Beach County, pled guilty, on…

Co-defendant Toni Ann Bobet, age 30, of New York, New York, pleaded guilty to her role in the scheme on April 11, 2019, just a few days before she was scheduled to go to trial. The sentence and guilty plea were announced by United States…

Wann, 62, of Kila, pleaded guilty in December to illegally possessing a machine gun, an unregistered silencer, a short barreled rifle and a destructive device, specifically, a grenade. Chief U.S. District Judge Dana L. Christensen presided.…

Jose Santos Garcia Guzman, 43, is charged by complaint with one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute approximately 53 kilograms of suspected fentanyl and cocaine. He is scheduled to appear today before U.S. Magistrate Judge…