Press Releases from National Press Office http://www.fbi.gov/fieldnews/breaking.htm Mon, 1 Dec 2008 18:17:48 -0500 Mon, 1 Dec 2008 18:17:38 -0500 FeedForAll v2.0 (2.0.2.9) http://www.feedforall.com Vernon Geier, of Las Vegas, Nevada, was sentenced to five years of probation for interstate theft from the Public Employee Retirement System of Idaho. http://saltlakecity.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel08/theft112408.htm 4514C9B8-FEF7-4B13-A5BD-F993577C2C3A Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:02:34 -0500 Letitia Ramona Mays, of Oakland, California, was sentenced to 4.5 years in prison, three years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay $357,214.17 in restitution for her participation in an identity theft scheme. http://sanfrancisco.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/2008/sf112608.htm 22F49582-4190-4501-8191-F99D883B54DD Wed, 26 Nov 2008 17:56:47 -0500 Tahir Ali Khan pled guilty in New York to conspiracy to commit bank, wire and credit card fraud, and aggravated identity theft. Ali Khan was the lead defendant in a 15 defendant, multi-count Indictment unsealed on August 15, 2007, and is the tenth defendant to plead guilty in the scheme. http://newyork.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel08/nyfo112608.htm A4286A40-ECB9-4417-82AA-BD08A39B4E56 Wed, 26 Nov 2008 17:52:32 -0500 Daryl Lee Fierce, of Charleston, West Virginia, was indicted by a federal grand jury for using fire to intimidate and interfere with a person’s housing rights because African-American and biracial individuals visited the person in her home. http://pittsburgh.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/2008/pt112608.htm 5DD46811-B52E-4DB7-B00C-879ADF2AE216 Wed, 26 Nov 2008 17:39:02 -0500 Juan Hiraldo, of Carbon County, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to more than eight years in prison for his participation in a Carbon County-based drug trafficking conspiracy. http://philadelphia.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel08/ph112508.htm 208456EC-0CDB-4EBF-B5B6-33E557ED35C0 Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:29:56 -0500 Emerson Vincent Briggs, a Maryland resident who previously worked as an attorney in the District of Columbia, was sentenced to nearly six years in prison on one count of receiving child pornography. http://washingtondc.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel08/wfo112408.htm D9278BE6-E219-46C6-B790-E326C919B65A Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:12:40 -0500 Paul Eric Presley, a former Vancouver, Washington resident, was captured in Las Vegas, Nevada after failing to show up for his sentencing on charges of receipt of child pornography. http://seattle.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/2008/pr112608a.htm CED5690F-A924-4047-B484-9C43CDA4A14E Wed, 26 Nov 2008 17:08:15 -0500 Christian Popescu, of Kenmore, Washington, was charged with sale or receipt of stolen goods after setting up a deal to sell an 18 carat gold bookmark which allegedly was first given to Adolf Hitler by his mistress Eva Braun. The bookmark was stolen in the fall of 2002 from an auction house in Madrid, Spain. This is the first time in six years that the artifact has surfaced. http://seattle.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/2008/pr112608.htm 651C693D-C267-4FAE-87B3-8DBBD665264C Wed, 26 Nov 2008 17:06:07 -0500 Scott Andrew Shain, of Seattle, Washington, was sentenced to 30 months in prison for Social Security Fraud, Misrepresenting a Social Security Number, Unlawful Production of an Identification Document, Aggravated Identity Theft, Mail Fraud, and being a Felon in Possession of a Firearm. http://seattle.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/2008/pr112108.htm EB2F13E7-0DD8-4569-8F55-BAA32BF1C992 Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:04:18 -0500 Pedro Quintana, a resident of Honduras, pled guilty in New Orleans, Louisiana to one count of bank fraud. http://neworleans.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/2008/no112608.htm F890F2E0-BCB3-43E0-A77B-4D99E0788F8B Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:56:36 -0500 Daniel Carl Sherwin, of Elizabeth City, North Carolina, pled guilty to two counts of manufacturing child pornography. http://charlotte.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/2008/ce112608.htm 347CC491-33A4-486E-B766-73D6D6FA42EB Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:50:56 -0500 Danny James Burnett, of Knoxville, Tennessee, was arrested on charges of bank robbery in connection with the robbery of the City Employee Credit Union in Knoxville on November 25, 2008. http://knoxville.fbi.gov/pressrel/2008/kx112508.htm D97F7560-E237-4B2F-BE9E-BE3B2FC8F029 Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:46:15 -0500 Dunlop Oil & Marine Ltd., a British marine hose manufacturer, has agreed to plead guilty and pay $4.54 million in criminal fines for participating in a conspiracy to rig bids, fix prices, and allocate market shares of marine hose sold in the United States and elsewhere. http://miami.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel08/mm20081201.htm DE7F17BB-CBE3-42E1-A1F5-66481A6D5966 Mon, 1 Dec 2008 16:39:51 -0500 Lisa Shae Allen, of Modesto, California, was arrested on a 47-count indictment charging her with mail fraud, money laundering, and criminal forfeiture stemming from her embezzlement of over $1.6 million from her former employer. http://sacramento.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel08/sc112108a.htm 4EC48270-698E-4477-B566-BCB4E1604CA7 Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:31:36 -0500 Judith Kaye Power, of Isleton, California, pled guilty to a single count of making and uttering a forged instrument pertaining to her embezzlement of $466,000 from her Walnut Grove, California employer, Steamboat Orchards. http://sacramento.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel08/sc112508.htm 82A45E7D-AEE8-4E5B-BC0A-D7E7193AEAF9 Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:28:16 -0500 Angela Raposa, of Riverside, Rhode Island, who owned Title America Closing Services, pled guilty to a federal fraud charge, admitting that she used about $1.3 million from her company’s escrow account to pay for personal expenses. http://boston.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel08/fraud120108.htm FC676558-E627-494F-9B39-265190952F86 Mon, 1 Dec 2008 16:15:49 -0500 Danny Ernest Sherman and Darren Thomas Scully, both of San Diego, California, were arrested on charges of possession of child pornography as a result of two separate Internet Crimes Against Children task force investigations. http://sandiego.fbi.gov/pressrel/pressrel08/sd112608.htm 5B4C5732-D662-44A5-8B4E-DD06F2F153D2 Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:03:05 -0500 Lee E. Johnson, of Warrensburg, Missouri, a fire investigator with the Office of the State Fire Marshal, Missouri Department of Public Safety, was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison without parole for using the Internet to attempt to entice a minor to engage in illicit sexual activity. http://kansascity.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel08/kc112508.htm 33BBC38B-EA23-42CD-BE83-933AE13BEEE2 Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:51:45 -0500 Clayton High Wolf, Sr., of Pine Ridge, South Dakota, was convicted by a jury in federal court for simple assault. http://minneapolis.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel08/mp112608a.htm 5B1C2AEF-2C19-46D2-AF2D-08C5274671B4 Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:43:29 -0500 Walter West, of Rapid City, South Dakota, pled guilty to lying about his identity to an FBI agent who was conducting an investigation. http://minneapolis.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel08/mp112608.htm 4C848F48-E918-4E17-B123-DB83647ED898 Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:41:07 -0500 Robert D. Grant, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Chicago office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced that the FBI was joining in the search for Gregory Haynes, Jr., who is wanted for the March 2008 shooting death of a Chicago man. http://chicago.fbi.gov/pressrel/2008/nov24_08.htm 18F47127-2B0F-48DD-8A49-7B0828166766 Mon, 24 Nov 2008 15:31:47 -0500 Andre J. Hornsby, 55, formerly of Mitchellville, Maryland, was sentenced to six years in prison in connection with his conviction by a federal jury of honest services wire fraud, witness and evidence tampering and obstruction of justice arising from a scheme to cause the Prince George's County Public Schools to award lucrative contracts to benefit close associates and himself. http://baltimore.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel08/ba112508.htm F689963E-A26D-46BE-BC6D-C9C26DA53FE5 Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:11:41 -0500 Christina Elizabeth Szele, of Woodside, New York, pleaded guilty to interference with a flight crew. http://denver.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/2008/flightplea112508.htm AB5FA76C-B21E-4E04-A74D-5A225B272F08 Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:11:40 -0500 Mary Reagan, 41, of Alpharetta, Georgia, was sentenced today to serve almost five years in federal prison for her role in a multi-million dollar mortgage fraud scheme. http://atlanta.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel08/at112508.htm 9E112B87-5BB4-4D71-B409-0E630A74BD79 Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:02:15 -0500 Bayer HealthCare LLC has agreed to pay the United States $97.5 million plus interest to settle allegations that it paid kickbacks to a number of diabetic suppliers and caused those suppliers to submit false claims to Medicare. http://miami.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel08/mm20081125.htm 5DEF68C4-4C3F-434E-AA67-411C42EB250E Tue, 25 Nov 2008 08:11:12 -0500