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Former Virginia Health Official Sentenced For $4.3M Fraud Scheme, Tax Evasion: Feds
A man who once oversaw Virginia’s emergency response programs will spend six years in prison for misappropriating millions from the state's Department of Health, federal authorities said. A former senior official with the Virginia Department of Health (VDH) was sentenced to six years in federal prison this week for orchestrating a multimillion-dollar fraud scheme and evading nearly $2 million in taxes, according to court records. Adam Lamar Harrell, 41, of Midlothian, used his position as Associate Director of the Office of Emergency Medical Services (OEMS) to siphon $4.3 million in public …
Schools
First-Grade Teacher Accused Of Selling Fatal Fentanyl Dose To DC Man, Selling At School: Feds
A teacher in Maryland who allegedly left her classroom to sell drugs to people on school property is facing charges for distributing a fatal dose of fentanyl, according to federal authorities. Sarah Katherine Magid, 34, has been charged with distributing fentanyl that resulted in serious bodily injury and the death of a victim, according to a criminal complaint that was unsealed this week in District Court. Magid, a first-grade teacher at a Montgomery County school was arrested in August following a search and seizure warrant by the DEA and local police at her Burtonsville home fo…
Police & Fire
Virginia Sex Offender Headed To Fed Pen For Conspiring To Live-Stream Child Sex Abuse
A registered northern Virginia sexual offender was sentenced to more than three decades in federal prison for conspiring to live stream sexual abuse of children online with a child sex trafficker in the Philippines, federal officials said. Michael Anthony Baxter, 50, of Sterling, and the man conspired to use children some as young as three years old to produce more than 30 live-streaming webcam shows showing the sexual abuse of children, said Jessica D. Aber, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. Baxter, a registered sex offender convicted in Prince William County Circuit…
Police & Fire
Reality Bites NJ ‘Real Housewives’ Ex Convicted Of Hiring Mobster To Beat Wife’s New Man
𝗨𝗣𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘: Reality bit the ex-husband of “Real Housewives of New Jersey” cast member Dina Manzo when he was convicted Tuesday of getting a mob soldier to throw her new beau a beating. Restaurateur Thomas Manzo, 59, who lives in the affluent Bergen County suburb of Franklin Lakes, rejected a plea deal from federal prosecutors and took his chances with a jury. That didn’t go so good. Jurors in U.S. District Court in Newark convicted Manzo on June 4 of committing a violent crime in aid of racketeering, along with conspiracy and falsifying documents during a grand jury investigation. Althou…
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Jilted Lover Who Stalked, Repeatedly Threatened Ex In DC Gets Prison Time
A District man who terrorized his former partner for years will spend time in federal prison for stalking her and making threats, according to officials. Eddie Tibbs, 34, was sentenced to 73 months in prison for stalking, felony threats, felony destruction of property, misdemeanor destruction of property, and a civil protection order violation following a harrowing ordeal involving his ex, federal authorities announced over the weekend. According to prosecutors, Tibbs and his victim were romantically involved, and their relationship reached its conclusion in 2020, leading to a frighten…
Police & Fire
NY Man Who Assaulted Female Passenger On Flight To Newark Gets 2 Years, No Parole
UPDATE: An upstate New York man who admitted assaulting a fellow passenger on a flight from Denver to Newark must spend two plea-bargained years in federal prison. Ryan Manuella, 30, of Erie County, “moved to a vacant center seat next to a female passenger, who was sitting in a window seat” on the April 16, 2021 flight, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger said. Manuella, who didn't know the woman, then "touched the passenger without her consent," Sellinger said. "The victim then yelled at him and left the row of seats," the U.S. attorney said. Defense attorney Andrew Olesnyck…
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Two More Busted For Four-Week Crime Spree Terrorizing DMV Businesses: Feds
Quaysa Flumo and Emmanuel Sumo will have years to think about their actions behind bars after going on a four-week crime spree targeting victims throughout the DMV region, federal authorities announced. Flumo, a District resident, was sentenced to 234 years in prison, and Sumo, 29, of Takoma Park, was sentenced to 214 months for their roles in a string of armed robberies targeting gas stations, liquor stores, convenience stores, and restaurants in the region. Prosecutors say that Flumo, Sumo, and Enyinna "Reggie" Onyewu, 31, of Silver Spring, were convicted earlier this year after bein…
Police & Fire
Repeat Jersey Shore Pedophile Gets 15 Years, No Parole, For Cybersexting With Canadian Girl
A previous sex offender from the Jersey Shore is headed to federal prison for 15 years for an online sexual relationship he had with a 13-year-old girl in Canada. David M. Frew, a 42-year-old registered sex offender from Little Egg Harbor, had served time for sending pornographic images to state investigators posing as minors in Pennsylvania in 2008. Less than a decade later, he was at it again. Authorities in Canada discovered cybersex exchanges in 2017 between Frew and an underage girl, according to a complaint filed by a U.S. Homeland Security Investigations agent. Frew also the youngs…
Police & Fire
NJ Rapper Fetty Wap Sentenced To 6 Years For Running Drugs
Paterson rapper Fetty Wap caught something of a break on Wednesday. A federal judge sentenced the platinum-selling rapper – whose real name is William Junior Maxwell II – to six years in federal prison on May 24 for his role in a drug-trafficking ring that flooded part of New Jersey and Long Island with cocaine, heroin, fentanyl and crack. Maxwell had been charged with conspiring to transport more than 100 kilos of the drugs there from the West Coast. Rather than risk the potential consequences of a trial, he took a deal from the government, pleading guilty in U.S. Eastern District Court …
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Russian Animal DNA Smuggler Admits To Attempting To Sneak Vials Through Dulles Airport
A Russian national living in Virginia who attempted to bring a curious package through Washington Dulles International Airport could face decades behind bars. Polina Perelman, who lives in Leesburg, pleaded guilty this week to smuggling animal DNA into the US after she was busted attempting to slip small vials past airport security in a conspicuous package. Prosecutors say that on Aug. 19, 2022, Perelman failed to declare that she was importing any animals, animal products, or cell cultures, despite traveling with a Styrofoam cooler labeled “Research Samples.” Inside the cooler were 19 sm…
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: Aging Career Criminal Gets 16 Years In Bizarre Murder-For-Hire Of NJ Politico
An aging Connecticut ex-con would have to turn 90 to taste freedom again after he was sentenced for stabbing a political consultant to death and then torching his Jersey City apartment in a murder-for-hire hit with a longtime crony from Philadelphia. The odds are stacked against George Bratsenis, 74, of Monroe, who reportedly has chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and cancer. There's also no parole in the federal prison system. Unless he’s granted a compassionate release for health reasons, Bratsenis will have to serve just about all of the plea-bargained 16-year sentence approved by …
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DC Dealer Who Murdered Customer Convicted For Violent Drug Conspiracy: Feds
A Washington, DC drug dealer may spend the rest of his life in prison following a nine-day trial for murdering a would-be customer and robbing him, federal officials announced this week. Madani Ilara Tejan, also known as “Malik,” “Mylik,” and “Dani,” 30, was convicted of using a firearm in connection with a murdder and robbery and for a drug distribution conspiracy, following a nine-day trial. Prosecutors say that on Oct. 3, 2018, Tejan met with a prospective customer to sell drugs, though during a planned meet-up, Tejan shot and killed the buyer, stole his vehicle, wallet, and other p…
Police & Fire
NJ Army Vet Who Supported Syrian Terrorist Lover Gets 3 Plea-Bargained Years In Federal Prison
A U.S. Army veteran from Sussex County must spend more than three years in federal prison for deliberately concealing money and guidance she gave to a Syrian terrorist she'd fallen in love with. Because there's no parole in the federal prison system, Maria Bell, 55, must serve out just about all of the plea-bargained 36-month sentence approved by a federal judge in Newark on Tuesday, Jan. 24, Bell, of Hopatcong, offered not only money and military intelligence but the benefit of her experience in specialized weapons training to Syria-based factions fighting the Assad regime, a complaint on…
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Ankle Monitor-Wearing DC Man Gets 11 Years For Armed Maryland Carjacking Spree
Even an electronic monitor couldn’t stop a Washington, DC man from continuing a life of crime in the DMV region. James Albert Borum, 20, of DC, has been sentenced to 11 years in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for a spree of armed carjackings he committed while wearing an ankle monitor as he was out on release for previous crimes, federal officials announced. Specifically, Borum admitted to a series of four carjackings with accomplices in Montgomery and Prince George’s counties in June 2021 while he was under pre-trial supervision tied to charges in Washington…
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Career Criminal Caught Twice With Weapons At The Same Virginia Home One Year Apart: Feds
A career criminal with nearly a dozen felony convictions on his record is heading back to prison after getting caught first with an illegal weapon, then with drugs at the same spot in Virginia nearly a year apart, federal officials announced. Earlon Delton Mitchell, 33, of Norfolk, has been sentenced to 151 months in prison for unlawfully possessing ammunition that he used to shoot at someone and for unlawfully possessing a firearm in a separate incident roughly a year later. According to prosecutors, on March 27, 2021, within nine months of his release from federal prison for a prior felon…
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Breaking Bad: Drug Trafficker Sentenced For Importing 200 Pounds Of Meth Into Virginia: Feds
A California man who relocated to Virginia has been sentenced to decades behind bars for his role in a massive federal drug distribution ring involving hundreds of pounds of crystal in the region. Authorities say that Guy Benjamin Bowman, 57, who recently moved east to Meadowview, has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for participating in a cross-country drug conspiracy that brought hundreds of pounds of crystal ice methamphetamine into Virginia, the US State’s Attorney announced. Specifically, Bowman was found guilty by a trial in July of: Conspiracy to possess with the inten…
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Duo Sentenced For Distributing Enough Fentanyl To Kill 600K People In Maryland: Feds
Two Maryland men have been convicted following a two-week trial for their roles in distributing enough fentanyl to kill hundreds of thousands of people, federal authorities announced. Jarvis Antonio Coleman-Fuller, 35, of Hagerstown, and Eric Tyrell Johnson, 38, of Owings Mills were both convicted by a federal jury on charges related to a conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, specifically fentanyl and heroin in Washington County. Prosecutors say that beginning in April 2019 through November 2019, both men and other co-conspirators conspired to distribute heroin and fentanyl in th…
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Predator Sentenced For Using Social Media To Trade Explicit Images For Vapes With VA Teens
Authorities announced that a North Carolina man has been sentenced to time in federal prison after admitting to using social media platforms and traveling over state lines to exploit teenage boys in Virginia. Jonathan Avery Shumate, 54, of Warrensville, N.C. has been sentenced to 151 months in federal prison after pleading guilty earlier this year to one count of coercion and enticement of minors. Prosecutors say that Shumate used both Snapchat and Grindr to contact teenage boys attending Oak Hill Academy in Grayson County, and offered to provide vapes and vaping materials in exchange for t…
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DC Man Admits To Trafficking Homeless Teen For MD Prostitution Business
A D.C. man pleaded guilty to trafficking a 15-year-old homeless girl to work as his prostitute, officials said. Sirron Little, 31, admitted to recruiting a homeless teenager to give him sexual favors for money in 2018, according to U.S. Attorney's Office. Little also posted inappropriate photos of the victim online and arranged dates with her and clients for sexual acts, authorities said. Originally, Little arranged for the teen to meet clients in their cars, but later advanced his business to having her meet clients in local motels, officials reported. The victim did not make any of the …
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'If I Can't Have Her, No One Can', Maryland Arsonist Sentenced After Setting Ex's Home On Fire
"If I can't have her, nobody can, or at least no one in Baltimore," were the chilling words of a man who pleaded guilty to setting his ex's house on fire, authorities say. Luther Moody Trent, 21, compared the volatile relationship to Romeo and Juliet, in an interview with an unspecified local news station where he claimed to have set the victim's home on fire back on May 21, 2021, according to the Department of Justice. Trent admitted to pouring and igniting gasoline along the exterior of the home around 1:30 a.m. that spring morning while the victim and two others were inside. Lucki…
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Special Deputy US Marshal Charged In Maryland For Laundering $1.9M During Romance Scam: DOJ
A romantic scam artist from Upper Marlboro lured his way into nearly $2 million before being caught, authorities say. Isidore Iwuagwu, 35, has been federally charged for conspiring to commit money laundering related to multiple online relationship scams according to the Department of Justice. Iwuagwu was able to commit these crimes all while working security as a Special Deputy United States Marshal and Department of Justice contractor, prosecutors said. Iwuagwu allegedly contacted victims on social media platforms and dating sites, engaging in online relationships with them before asking …
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DC Gang Member Admits To Kidnapping Conspiracy That Led To Death Of 19-Year-Old
A 23-year-old D.C. resident and street gang member pleaded guilty to a first degree murder charge, officials said. In 2019, Jordan Moreno, "Joker", and two other members of the "Tiny Locos Surenos" group in the 18th Street gang, kidnapped a woman who they believed was associating with another gang, MS-13, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. Moreno and the co-conspirators lured the victim to a wooded area in Maryland, where Moreno shot and killed her, authorities reported. Moreno pleaded guilty to federal kidnapping charges related to the death of the 19-year-old woman after plead…
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Fourth Man Sentenced For Movie-Like Kidnapping, Robbery Scheme At Maryland Casino, DC Apartment
The fourth of five suspects implicated in an elaborate kidnapping and robbery scheme that started at a Maryland hotel has been sentenced to federal prison time, authorities announced. Washington, DC resident Anthony Erik Hebron - also known as “Pain,” 29, has been sentenced to 14 years behind bars, followed by five years of supervised release for conspiracy to commit kidnapping. As part of his guilty plea in February 2021, Hebron and co-conspirators Darius “Mup” Young, 30, Christopher Young, 27, Lance Perkins, 28, and Tray Sherman, age 27, all of DC, admitted to working on a scheme to kidn…
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Ex-Con Fugitive From NJ Caught With Guns, Drugs, Ammo Faces Lengthy Federal Prison Stretch
Cedric Lewis had been out of state prison all of two months when detectives from the Essex County Sheriff's Office learned that he'd armed himself with a rifle, two pistols and a pair of extended magazines while selling heroin and cocaine. With the heat on, the Bloomfield ex-con headed south. Three months later, deputy U.S. marshals in Atlanta had him in custody. Lewis, 29, will be headed to federal prison for a much longer stretch than before after taking a deal from the government. Lewis pleaded guilty via videoconference with a federal judge in Newark on Thursday, July 28, to two …
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Cardiologist Sentenced To Federal Prison Time For Prescribing 8,600 Painkillers For NJ Couple
A New Jersey cardiologist is headed to federal prison for 2½ years for illegally prescribing thousands of unnecessary Oxycodone pills for a patient and his wife. Raymond Catania, 60, of Warren, must serve at least two years before being eligible for supervised release because there's no parole in the federal prison system. Catania churned out scripts for 8,600 30mg Oxycodone pills in a little over 14 months from his Watchung office not only for his patient but for the man's wife, as well, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger said. He did so "without a legitimate medical purpose and outside of…
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NJ Woman Who Pulled $400,000 GoFundMe Scam With Homeless Vet, Ex-BF Gets Federal Prison Time
UPDATE: A New Jersey woman who helped pull a scam that conned 14,000 GoFundMe donors across the country out of $400,000 to purportedly benefit a homeless veteran is headed to federal prison. Katelyn McClure, 32, of Bordentown got a far lighter sentence under the terms of her plea deal with the government than did her former boyfriend, Mark D’Amico, who concocted the cruel scheme. McClure was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Camden on Thursday to a plea-bargained year and a day in a federal penitentiary. D’Amico, the "mastermind," earlier this year got 27 months in a fed pen in exchange …
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Maryland Drug Dealer Sentenced For Selling Heroin, Fentanyl Across Four States
A Baltimore man has been sentenced to federal prison after pleading guilty to possessing and distributing controlled substances, officials say. Devin Cunningham, 27, was involved in the selling and distributing of narcotics including fentanyl, heroin, and other controlled substances to Maryland and surrounding states from 2017 until 2020. Specifically, between January 2017 and December 2020, "scores of customers from Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia traveled to the Forest Park area of Baltimore and purchased between a half of a gram and several grams of fentanyl or h…
Police & Fire
Alexandria Court Sentences Woman To 15 Years For Producing Child Porn: Feds
A 22-year-old Ohio woman convicted of producing and distributing child pornography of an infant girl will spend 15 years in federal prison, the Department of Justice said. Ashley N. Kolhoff of Port Clinton, Ohio, was convicted in a federal court in Alexandria earlier this year and was sentenced on Tuesday, July 12, a U.S. Attorney said. Kolhoff produced sexually explicit images of an infant girl and posted them on a website dedicated to exploiting children, the Department of Justice said. She shared the photos with nine people on the website and had sexually explicit chats with …
Police & Fire
Northern Virginia Man Sentenced To Prison For Selling Fake 'Molly': Prosecutors
A Winchester man who pleaded guilty to selling the street drug falsely called "Molly" will serve six years in federal prison, prosecutors said. A judge sentenced Lamont Antoine Parson, 40, to six years in prison on Monday, June 27, the Department of Justice said in a press release. Parson pleaded guilty to trafficking Eutylone along with his uncle Gregory McKinley Frye, 54, in November, the release notes. They faced up to 20 years in prison. A judge will sentence Frye later this year, officials said. Police raided their apartment in February 2020 and found three kilogra…
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California Man Went To Justice Kavanaugh's Home With Intent To Kill: Feds
A California man has been charged with the attempted murder of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh after telling dispatchers his intent was to do just that Wednesday, June 8, federal officials said. Nicholas John Roske, 26, of Simi Valley was found dressed in all black carrying a backpack and suitcase outside of Justice Kavanaugh's home in Chevy Chase, Maryland, the US Justice Department said. Here's the perp who wanted to kill Kavanaugh, Nicholas John Roske pic.twitter.com/Zt0hZJEv80 — 🍊 Terrance 🌴 (@Orsin_Buggy) June 8, 2022 Roske called the Montgomery County Emergency line saying …
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Lorton Drug Dealer Who Caused Woman's Overdose Sentenced To 22 Years In Prison
A Lorton man was sentenced to 22 years in federal prison for causing a woman to die from a drug overdose, the US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia said. Julian Velasquez, 36, distributed counterfeit Xanax containing fentanyl to the woman, labelled as a 29-year-old E.M., who accidentally overdosed in August 2020, the office reports. Velasquez, who gave E.M. the fake pill, did not call for help after finding her unresponsive on August 9, 2020. Instead, he called his friend and drug customer, 27-year-old Enoel Comsti of Vienna, to help …
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