Wednesday, November 3, 2010

FBI In the News Updated

Two Indicted in Missouri for Providing Material Support to al Shabaab
Wed, 03 Nov 2010 14:07:22 -0500

St. Louis, Missouri resident Mohamud Abdi Yusuf was indicted and arrested on four charges of providing material support to a designated terrorist organization (al Shabaab) and one charge of conspiracy to structure financial transactions. Minneapolis, Minnesota resident Abdi Mahdi Hussein was also indicted and arrested on a charge of conspiracy to structure financial transactions.



Missouri Man Indicted for Bank Robberies
Tue, 02 Nov 2010 14:04:16 -0500

Kenneth Dewain Parker, of Rockaway Beach, Missouri, was indicted by a federal grand jury for bank robberies in Columbia and Sedalia, Missouri.



Former Fuel Purchaser Sentenced in Florida for Defrauding Royal Caribbean Cruises
Tue, 02 Nov 2010 11:39:39 -0500

Jamil Murni, of Houston, Texas, a former fuel buyer for Royal Caribbean Cruises, Ltd., was sentenced in Florida to 45 months in prison for devising a scheme to defraud Royal Caribbean of more than $600,000.



Former NFL Player Arrested for Wire Fraud, Tax Evasion, Money Laundering
Tue, 02 Nov 2010 11:33:51 -0500

Former NFL player Jeffrey Lynn Walker was arrested by FBI agents in Nashville, Tennessee on charges filed in Mississippi of wire fraud, tax evasion, and money laundering in connection with an alleged scheme to defraud investors located in Mississippi, Tennessee, Florida, and Arizona out of millions of dollars.



President of New Jersey Company Charged in Georgia with Conspiracy to Allocate Customers
Tue, 02 Nov 2010 11:30:32 -0500

Thomas E. Carr, the former president and chief executive officer of a Lakewood, New Jersey-based manufacturer and distributor of food service equipment hardware, was indicted in Atlanta, Georgia on charges of conspiring to allocate customers for the sale of commercial and institutional food service equipment hardware, including walk-in refrigeration equipment.



Former Georgia Police Officer Sentenced for Obstructing an Undercover Investigation
Tue, 02 Nov 2010 11:26:59 -0500

Former Polk County Police Officer Mark Howell Sparks, of Felton, Georgia, was sentenced to serve over two years in federal prison on charges of obstruction of justice, tampering with a witness, and possessing a vehicle with an altered vehicle identification number in connection with tipping off his friends who were the targets of an undercover investigation.



Connecticut Exec Sentenced for Making False Filings with SEC
Tue, 02 Nov 2010 11:16:35 -0500

Michael J. Nolan, the former chief financial officer of Greenwich, Connecticut-based United Rentals, Inc., was sentenced to three years of probation and was ordered to pay more than $1 million in restitution for making false filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.



Information Technology Manager Sentenced in Florida for Computer Intrusion
Tue, 02 Nov 2010 11:10:33 -0500

Edwin Vega, Jr., of Valrico, Florida, the former information technology manager for a law firm located in Tampa, was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for committing computer intrusions causing damage of at least $120,000.



Three Arkansas Men Indicted for Burning Cross to Intimidate African-American Resident
Tue, 02 Nov 2010 11:06:06 -0500

James Bradley Branscum, Tony Branscum, and Curtis Coffee were indicted by a federal grand jury on charges related to their roles in burning a cross in the yard of an African-American resident in Salado, Arkansas.



Minnesota Attorney Sentenced for Embezzling $2.5 Million
Tue, 02 Nov 2010 11:03:02 -0500

Michael Scott Margulies, an attorney from one of the Twin Cities' best-known law firms, was sentenced in Minneapolis to 78 months in prison for embezzling approximately $2.5 million from his clients and the firm.



Fugitive, Nine Others Charged in Texas for Executing Stock Fraud Scheme
Tue, 02 Nov 2010 10:58:07 -0500

A federal grand jury returned two separate but related indictments against Harris Dempsey "Butch" Ballow, formerly of Galveston County, Texas, and a total of nine other alleged associates on charges arising from an alleged fraudulent stock sale scheme executed while Ballow was a fugitive from justice, as well as on charges arising from harboring and hindering Ballow's arrest and assisting an offender.



Rapper Willie D Sentenced in Texas for Wire Fraud Scam
Tue, 02 Nov 2010 10:55:43 -0500

William James Dennis, aka Willie D, was sentenced in Houston, Texas to 12 months and one day in federal prison for his conviction on wire fraud charges stemming from his purported sales of Apple iPhones through a company known as Texas One Wireless.



Former South Carolina Sheriff's Department Officer Charged with Civil Rights Violation
Tue, 02 Nov 2010 10:53:49 -0500

Oddie Tribble, a former officer with the Kershaw County (South Carolina) Sheriff’s Office, was charged with violating the civil rights of an arrestee by using excessive force when he struck the victim with his police-issued baton. As a result, the victim suffered a fractured leg.



South Man Sentenced for Child Pornography Possession
Tue, 02 Nov 2010 10:49:12 -0500

James Danner Wilson, Jr., of Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina, was sentenced to 40 months in prison and a lifetime of supervised release for possessing more than 100 images of child pornography.



Three California Men Charged with Conspiracy to Provide Material Support to al Shabaab
Wed, 03 Nov 2010 09:34:57 -0500

San Diego residents Basaaly Saeed Moalin, Mohamed Mohamed Mohamud, and Issa Doreh were charged with conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists, conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization, conspiracy to kill in a foreign country, and related offenses.


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