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Police & Fire
Police Imposters Steal Cash From Motorist In Loudoun County, Police Say
Leesburg police are on the lookout for a pair of imposters who stole money from a motorist last week. The men were in a newer model grey Toyota Corolla with tinted windows when they pulled up alongside the victim on the 800 block of Edwards Ferry Road NE Friday, April 26 around 4:30 p.m., police said. The vehicle had flashing red and blue lights on its dashboard, so the victim stopped for it. Two males got out the and displayed silver badges. During the interaction, one of the men took money from the victim’s wallet. The pair then got back into their vehicle and drove away. The Toyota wa…
Police & Fire
Woman Burglarizes Home On Same Arlington Block She Barricaded Herself In Months Ago, Police Say
Charges are racking up for a former Florida woman who barricaded herself in a vacant Virginia home last October, as she's had yet another run-in with the law after committing on a crime on the very same block, authorities said. Vivian Vann, 52, was one of two women who forced their way into a vacant home and swiped some items before leaving the scene on N. Powhatan Street in a black sedan early Monday, March 25, officials in Arlington said. During the course of the investigation, Vann was identified as a suspect, and a warrant for her arrest was obtained. She was subsequently taken int…
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Founder Of LGBTQ+ Non-Profit In DC Charged For Fraud After 'Unexpected Return' To US: Feds
The trailblazing founder of Casa Ruby, a DC-based non-profit that provided services to the LGBTQ+ community is facing charges for alleged fraud and money laundering, according to prosecutors. Ruby Corado, 53, made her initial court appearance in DC on Wednesday to face charges for allegedly defrauding Paycheck Protection and the Economic Injury Disaster Loan programs, and money laundering after fleeing the country, authorities announced. Specifically, Corado is accused of diverting at least $150,000 of $1.3 million in taxpayer-backed emergency relief funds, intended for the organi…
Police & Fire
Georgia Man Posed As Police To Bilk City Residents Out Of Cash In Fairfax, Officials Say
At least four people in Virginia were targeted by a 31-year-old Georgia man posing as police in an effort to bilk Fairfax residents out of cash, police announced this week. Razie Brown has been extradited back to the City of Fairfax following an investigation into reports of a con man posing as law enforcement officials attempting to steal money in a scheme that dates back to last summer. According to officials, in June 2023, local police were alerted to multiple cases of fraud after they were contacted by an unknown person who identified himself as a police officer. In each case, Brown in…
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Man's Brother Pretended To Be NY Mobster As Part Of $4M Embezzlement Scheme In MD/DC: Feds
Henry Hill immortalized the line "as far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster." That mantra didn't work out well for a pair of brothers - one of whom pretended to be a New York mobster - to get a Maryland man to embezzle more than $4 million from his employer in Washington, DC. New York native Corry Blue Evans, 31, has been sentenced to 41 months in prison for his role in an elaborate fraud, extortion, and money laundering scheme that involved several other close-knit co-conspirators who worked to exploit the multi-million dollar scheme. The sentence comes y…
Police & Fire
Florida Fugitive Barricaded In Arlington Home Slapped With Host Of Charges
A Florida woman who barricaded herself in a vacant Virginia home will face a litany of charges after breaking into the Arlington residence. Officers from the Arlington Police Department were called to the 2300 block of North Powhatan Street to investigate a report of "suspicious circumstances," after Dania Beach resident Vivian Vann was caught breaking into an area home, police say. The 52-year-old refused to exit the property when demanded by officers, and the standoff continued until they were able to breach the home and took Vann into custody. When she was searched, officers recovered m…
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District Man Gets Time For Exploiting Disabled Family Member Unable To Make Decisions: Feds
Time will be served for a Washington, DC man who took advantage and financially cashed in on a family member suffering from cognitive disabilities, federal officials announced. Tyronne Gregory Taylor, 53, has been sentenced to two years in prison after admitting to exploiting a family member for months in 2020 while he was in a hospital and unable to make decisions for himself. According to court documents, between July and December 2020, Taylor gained unauthorized access to his family member's debit card while in a DC skilled nursing facility and had a field day with it. Once in possessio…
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South Korean Clothing Manufacturer Admits Customs Fraud, Agrees To Pay US $2 Million
A South Korean company has agreed to reimburse the United States $2 million for defrauding Customs officials about the value of imported clothing and apparel. Principals with Anyclo International Inc. admitted this week that the company evaded duties on clothing and apparel that it manufactured abroad and imported into the U.S. for nearly seven years, beginning in October 2012, U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Philip R. Sellinger said. The fraud involved preparing two invoices for the same shipments, the U.S. attorney said. One invoice bore the true value of the merchandise, Sellinger said. Th…
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$6M Ponzi Scheme: Braggart Hedge Fund 'Tycoon' Busted By Undercover NJ Fed
The well-heeled hedge fund tycoon from Chicago seemingly couldn’t help but boast of some spectacular achievements during a meeting with an investment manager in New Jersey. There were annual returns of 336 percent, more than $2 billion raised in just 60 days and a list of investors that included a well-known owner of a professional sports team, authorities said. Phillip Galles, 57, also took a page from George Santos’s book, claiming that he’d graduated from a prominent university in the Midwest, they said. Galles’s “outlandish claims of experience, expertise and success” were all BS, a co…
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Serial NJ Phony Fire Inspector Has Yet To Learn His Lesson, Police In DC Say
He's a little bit older and a little bit grayer, but Michael Carrion is the same phony fire inspector now that he was in 2018, authorities in Washington DC say. Carrion, who was being held at Riker's Island for a parole violation when he was being sought out of various New Jersey towns in 2018, is now wanted out of the nation's capital for pulling the same stunt that landed him in trouble with the law back then. CarrionMUGSHOT: Courtesy WAYNE PD This time, 56-year-old Carrion posed as a fire inspector at a DC bagel shop on April 21, and left with nearly $1,000 in cash, according to DC N…
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Feds Charge Exiled Chinese Tycoon With $1B Fraud That Funded $26.5M NJ Mansion Buy, More
Exiled Chinese tycoon Miles Guo was arrested by the FBI Wednesday on charges of swindling his online followers out of more than $1 billion that the government said he used, in part, to buy a 58-room mansion in Mahwah. Some of the agents were still at Guo’s 15-room penthouse in the Sherry-Netherland Hotel on Manhattan’s Upper East Side the afternoon of March 15, six hours after he’d been arrested there, when a mysterious fire broke out on the 18th floor, responders said. No injuries were reported, but authorities said the blaze significantly damaged Guo’s unit. No one drew any immediate conn…
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: Suspect Apprehended After Foot Chase At Stafford Marketplace
Stafford police detained a fraud suspect at a local Panera Bread on Thursday, September 15, officials reported. Just before 11 a.m., the suspect handed a cashier a counterfeit bill, before leaving the scene, according to the Stafford County Sheriff's Office. Soon after the incident, officers located the suspect at nearby Jersey Mike's and the suspect attempted to flee from police, authorities said. After a brief foot chase, police located the suspect hiding in a parking lot and though he resisted his arrest, officers used a mace-like spray to take him into custody, law enforcement sa…
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Maryland Men Convicted Of Running $13M Money Laundering Scheme In Virginia
Two Maryland men have been convicted after running a $13 million business email compromise scheme, authorities say. Onyewuchi Victor Ibeh, 33, of Mitchellville, and Jason Eugene Joyner, 42, of Hyattsville, participated in the scheme to launder proceeds by infiltrating computer systems of victim companies through phishing and malware attacks, according to the Department of Justice. Once the pair would gain access to the accounts, prosecutors said they would pose as the victim's business partner and claim the bank account information has changed so the victim business sends money to accounts …
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$6.8M
Covid-
19 Scam: Ex-Hedge Fund Manager Gets 4+ Years, No Parole
A dual New York/Florida resident was sentenced in New Jersey to a plea-bargained 51 months in federal prison for fraudulently collecting more than $6.8 million in COVID-19 payroll protection loans -- $3 million of which he lost in the stock market. Gregory J. Blotnick, 35, will have to serve just about all of the sentence because there's no parole in the federal prison system. In addition to the prison term, U.S. District Judge Brian R. Martinotti sentenced Blotnick in Newark to two years of supervised release and ordered him to pay restitution of $4,577,631. Blotnick told the judge last f…
Police & Fire
Suspect Sought In VA Jiffy Lube Incident
Police are asking for the public's help in identifying the person who commit fraud at a Jiffy Lube earlier this month in Fredericksburg. Police did not provide specifics on what happened at 3300 Plank Road. Can you identify this person? On May 10th, he was involved in a fraudulent incident at the Jiffy Lube located at 3300... Posted by Fredericksburg Police Department on Friday, May 13, 2022 Contact police at 540-373-3122 if you know this person. You can make an anonymous report by texting 847-411 with “FPDtip” followed by your tip.
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