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Norfolk
Police & Fire
Ex-Stoughton Water Dept. Employee Tampered With Water Supply: Feds
A former Stoughton Water Department employee was arrested on Thursday, March 7, and charged with tampering with the city's water supply, authorities announced. Robert J. Bullock, 58, of Brockton, was indicted on two counts of making false statements and one count of tampering with a water system, the US Attorney for Massachusetts said. He potentially faces decades in prison if convicted. Investigators said Bullock went into one of the Water Department's pumping stations on Nov. 29, 2022, and turned off the pump that introduces chlorine to the water supply. Chlorine helps disinfe…
Norfolk
Police & Fire
Man Who Turned Runaway 15-Year-Old Girl Into Prostitute In Canton Gets 15 Years: Feds
A man in Canton will be sent to prison for 15 years for sex trafficking a missing minor in 2021, officials said. Keion Rowell, 24, was convicted by a federal jury in September 2023 on one count of sex trafficking a child, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Massachusetts. A judge on Wednesday, Jan. 31, sentenced him to 15 years in prison and five years of supervised release. Related: Man Guilty In 'Gut Wrenching' Child Sex Trafficking Case In Canton Involving Girl, 15: Feds “Mr. Rowell inflicted severe trauma on a vulnerable young life,” Acting United States At…
Middlesex MA
News
Harvard Morgue Manager Kept Body Parts At Home, Sold Them To Black Market Network: Feds
A manager of the Harvard Medical School morgue is accused of stealing body parts from cadavers and selling them to several people across the country, federal investigators said. Cedric Lodge, 55, of Goffstown, New Hampshire, is charged with interstate transport of stolen goods — the goods being human body parts, according to the US Department of Justice. His wife, Denise Lodge, is also charged in the case. Other members of the "nationwide network" who are also charged with interstate transport of stolen goods include: Katerina Maclean, age 44, of Salem, Massachusetts Joshua Taylor, 4…
Hampden
Police & Fire
3-Year-Old Forced Into Sex Acts By Springfield Man To Make Child Porn: Feds
A 42-year-old Massachusetts man is facing federal charges after forcing a 3-year-old child into sex acts, which he used to produce child pornography, federal authorities said. Bairon Ubeda, of Springfield, was indicted on one count of sexual exploitation of a child, one count of receiving child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography, United States Attorney Rachael S. Rollins said. Ubeda "employed, used, persuaded, induced and coerced" the victim to engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing child pornography from December 2018 through Februar…
Capital District
News
14-Year-Old Would Be Harmed If She Didn't Send Nudes, Schenectady Man Threatened: Police
A man from the region is facing federal sex crimes charges after he allegedly coerced underage girls into sending him sexual images, authorities said. Richard Nejame, age 27, of Schenectady, was arraigned in federal court in Albany on Monday, May 1, on charges of sexual exploitation of a child and communicating a threat to injure. According to the US Attorney’s Office in the Northern District, Nejame chatted with several underage girls through a messaging app between October 2022 and May 2023. During one exchange, he threatened a 14-year-old Florida girl that “bad people” would come and h…
York
News
Red Lion Dad Confesses To Incest: DA
A 33-year-old dad from Red Lion has admitted to raping a child he is related to, authorities say. Jeremy Nathaniel Fallbeck, was sentenced less than a month ago in connection with a federal child porn case— and now he has entered a guilty plea in another local case, according to court documents obtained by Daily Voice. He entered the guilty plea for rape by forcible compulsion, indecent sexual assault of a minor, and incest of a minor, according to a release by the York County DA on Tuesday, April 11, 2023. He has already been sentenced to over 23 years imprisonment— or 280 months to b…
Essex MA
Police & Fire
'Predator' Sex Offender Gets 26 Years For Having Sex With 12-Year-Old Girl: Feds
A registered sex offender from Lawrence who recorded himself having sex with a 12-year-old girl will spend more than 26 years in prison, federal authorities said. Irvin Abreu, 38, pleaded guilty to sexually exploiting the child in April 2022, and a judge sentenced him to 315 months behind bars and 10 years of probation last week, the US Attorney for Massachusetts said. Abreu was previously convicted of sexually exploiting a 15-year-old girl. But only two months after he was released on probation, he began praying on the younger victim after he met her online, the prosecutor said…
The Berkshires
Police & Fire
Lenox Man Thought He Sent Nudes To Teen, But They Went To Police
A 35-year-old Berkshire County man who thought he was talking to a 14-year-old girl online got a rude awakening after he sent her several naked videos of himself, federal authorities said. Paul J. Bruzzi, of Lenox, is now charged with attempting to transfer obscene material to a minor, the US Attorney for Massachusetts said. In September, Bruzzi started a conversation with what he believed was a teenage girl on a social media app but was an undercover federal agent, the prosecutor said. Bruzzi allegedly sent them nine photos and videos where he displayed his genitals and pr…
Bucks
Police & Fire
Bucks Man Planned To Kill Feds, Court Papers Say
New details are emerging in the case of a Bucks County man shot by a security guard outside the federal court complex in Philadelphia Tuesday, Jan. 17. The suspect, now identified as Anthony Lombardo of Bristol, illegally parked his mini-van on 7th Street near the James A. Byrne US Courthouse in Center City at about 9:30 a.m., the FBI says in a federal criminal complaint. When an officer approached the van and told him to move, authorities wrote that Lombardo exited his vehicle brandishing a knife and approached the security guard. The officer opened fire, wounding Lombardo, who fell to …
Baltimore
News
Maryland Dealer Gets Life For Premeditated Murder Of Mother, Child During Heroin Robbery
Federal authorities announced that a Maryland drug dealer will spend the rest of his life in prison after gunning down a child in cold blood during a premeditated heroin robbery in Cambridge he planned with his lover. Andre Ricardo Briscoe, also known as “Poo,” 39, of Baltimore and Cambridge, has been sentenced on federal drug distribution and other charges for his role in the death of Jennifer Jeffrey and her 7-year-old son in 2015. On May 25, 2015, Briscoe and co-conspirator Kiara Haynes made a plan to steal heroin from Jeffrey, who was a longtime friend of the latter. During that fateful…
Essex NJ
News
'
Blood
Bath
': Out-Of-State Man Who Threatened NJ Executive Over Stocks Sent To Federal Prison
An out-of-state man who threatened an executive officer at a New Jersey-based company where he used to work must spend the next 14 months in federal prison. Alan Wallace, 59, of Cumming, GA, had worked at a company facility in Georgia for nearly 18 years before he was involuntarily terminated in 2017, a complaint on file in U.S. District Court in Newark says. He began by sending an anonymous violent threat in January 2021 detailing how the family of the executive who worked at the New Jersey headquarters would pay if the publicly-traded company's stock prices didn't increase over the next m…
Arlington
News
Former State Department Employee Admits To Sexual Conduct With Philippine Minors: DOJ
A former state department employee admitted in court to having sexual conduct with Philippine minors, authorities said. Dean Edward Cheves, 63, pleaded guilty to two counts of engaging in illicit sexual conduct in a foreign place on Monday, Oct. 24, according to the US Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia. Cheves met multiple minors over the Internet while serving at the US Embassy in the Philippines from 2017 to 2021, federal officials said. From Dec. 2020 to March 2021, the man communicated online with a then 15 to 16-year-old Philippine juvenile, who he paid …
Suffolk MA
Police & Fire
Former Northeastern Employee Charged With Fabricating Explosive Package Incident
A former employee has been arrested and charged in connection with fabricating an explosion package incident at Northeastern University last month, authorities said. Jason Duhaime was arrested at his home in San Antonio, TX for lying to prosecutors in connection with the incident that happened on Tuesday, Sept. 13, FBI Boston and US Attorney Rachael Rollins report. Duhaime was recently hired to work at the university as a new technology manager of the Immersive Media Lab, according to his Northeastern biography. Authorities said Duhaime made a 911 call around 7:30 p.m. saying he was injure…
Suffolk MA
Police & Fire
Boston Man Who Fired At Police During Armed Robbery Escape Gets 16 Years: Feds
A 31-year-old Boston man who pleaded guilty to taking part in a violent Brockton armed robbery in 2019 was sentenced to 16 years in federal prison, the US Attorney's Office said. Stephan Rosser-Stewart was part of a four-man group that robbed a T-Mobile store and fired several shots while trying to make their getaway from police, authorities said. Federal prosecutors charged Rosser-Stewart, Darius Carter, and Diovanni Carter in the robbery. State authorities also charged Dennis Martin in the case. The men walked into the Belmont Street store and shoved a gun to the man…
Essex MA
Police & Fire
Maine Man Admits He Drove To Georgetown To Have Sex With Child: Feds
A 30-year-old Maine man who man pleaded guilty last week to driving to Massachusetts to have sex with a 13-year-old girl could spend the rest of his life in prison, federal authorities said. Patrick Plummer of Parsonsfield confessed to attempted enticement of a minor, intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a person under 18, and transportation of child pornography, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Boston said on Thursday, Sept. 8. Plummer began speaking with an undercover officer posing as a 13-year-old girl in 2020 through various social media apps, federal authorities sa…
Alexandria
Police & Fire
Repeat Bank Robber From DC Sentenced To 25 Years For His Multiple Crimes
A man from D.C. was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison for an armed bank robbery he committed back in 2021, authorities said.Amobi Agu, 37, is no stranger to the law, as he allegedly committed seven other armed bank robberies between 2007 and 2008, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Agu served time for those crimes, from 2008 to 2020, officials reported. In January of 2021, Agu robbed the Bank of America located in Dulles Crossing Plaza, where he threatened a bank teller and unarmed security guard with his gun, law enforcement said. Agu was convicted of brandishing a f…
Anne Arundel
News
Hanover Man Sentenced For Firing 'Ghost Gun' At Secret Service Security Guards
A Maryland man will spend a decade behind bars after admitting to firing a "ghost gun" at multiple US Secret Service security guards during a parking dispute, federal officials announced. Jeremiah Peter Watson, 24, of Hanover, has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release after pleading guilty to assault of a federal officer with a deadly or dangerous weapon, and using, carrying, or brandishing a firearm in relation to a violent crime. On Feb. 25, 2021, Watson drove to the entrance of a Secret Service facility in the area, positioning his veh…
Fairfax
Police & Fire
Falls Church Man Admits To Stealing Millions In
Covid-r
elief Money: Feds
A 36-year-old Falls Church man faces up to five years in prison after he admitted this week to taking part in a conspiracy that stole millions in federal money earmarked for COVID relief, the Department of Justice said. Fouzi Darakhshan pleaded guilty on Tuesday, May 31, to lying on applications to obtain Paycheck Protection Program loans and other federal programs, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. Darakhshan, his brother, and several friends took part in a scheme that siphoned more than $3 million from those funds, federal authorities contend. The U.S. Attorney's O…
Baltimore
Police & Fire
Two Marylanders Charged With Impersonating US Marshals: DOJ
Two Marylanders are facing hefty sentences after being with impersonating an officer and employee of the United States Marshals Service, the US Department of Justice said. Antione William Tuckson, 37, of Waldorf, and Nijea Nicole Rich, 40, of Lexington Park, each face a maximum sentence of three years in federal prison for impersonating a Deputy US Marshal, the DOJ said. Tuckson also faces a up to 10 years for being a felon in possession of a firearm while Rich faces up to five years for conspiring to impersonate an officer, the DOJ said. “I commend Prince…
Brookfield
News
Man From Fairfield County Admits To Paying Bribes For Contracts At Colleges In NY, MA
A Connecticut contractor admitted to securing deals at colleges in New York and Massachusetts in exchange for a kickback fee over the course of several years, federal officials announced. Fairfield County resident Stephen Dinapoli, age 42, of Wilton, the principal of a Connecticut environmental consulting firm in Norwalk, pleaded guilty in federal court in Springfield in Hampden County for his role in paying bribes to procure consulting contracts at educational institutions in Massachusetts and New York. Specifically, federal prosecutors said that Dinapoli pleaded guilty to one count of con…
Hackensack
News
$10
Each
: Pharmacist Charged With Selling COVID Vax Cards On eBay, Feds Warn Against Fakes
A licensed pharmacist was arrested by federal agents Tuesday for selling COVID-19 vaccination cards on eBay as government warnings against buying cards increased. Tangtang Zhao, 34, of Chicago worked for a pharmacy that distributed and administered vaccines – and with them the vax cards -- at its locations nationwide, Justice Department Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Polite Jr. said. Zhao got his hands on 125 authentic Centers for Disease Control and Prevention vaccination cards that he sold to nearly a dozen different buyers for $10 each, Polite said. “Knowingly selling COVID vacc…
Lyndhurst
News
Feds: Message App Shows How Pair Stole $10M Worth Of HIV Meds From NJ Veterans Hospital
UPDATE: Encrypted messages outline how a former pharmacy worker stole $10 million worth of HIV medications from a New Jersey veterans hospital with the help of a black-market fence from Bergen County, authorities charged. Surveillance cameras had already caught pharmacy tech Lisa M. Hoffman of Orange stealing the drugs from the shelves of the outpatient pharmacy at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) in East Orange, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig said earlier this year. According to an indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Newark this week, federal agents also s…
Hackensack
News
FBI: Don’t Even Think Of Using A Phony COVID Vaccination Card
It was inevitable that there’d be a black market for COVID vaccination cards, which has prompted warnings from federal authorities. It might be tempting to print out and fill in a blank vaccination card you bought online -- or on the street. Just be warned: You’re not just putting others at risk. You’re also facing possible federal charges if you’re caught with a forged card, the FBI says. "If you did not receive the vaccine, do not buy fake vaccine cards, do not make your own vaccine cards, and do not fill-in blank vaccination record cards with false information," the bureau warns. "By …
Mount Pleasant
News
NY Man Threatened To Kill Members Of Congress After Capitol Riot, Feds Say
A 37-year-old man who was once an Occupy Wall Street activist and later became a Trump fanatic has been charged with threatening to murder U.S. officials including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, soon-to-be Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York City. Brendan Hunt, of Queens, also known as “X-Ray Ultra,” was arrested on Tuesday, Jan. 19 in Queens and is being detained pending trial, said Seth D. DuCharme, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York. As alleged in the complaint, on Friday, Jan. 8, two days after the riot in the U.S.…
Essex NJ
News
Feds: Jamaican Traveler Caught Smuggling Kilo Of Cocaine Into Newark Airport
A Jamaican traveler was caught trying to smuggle more than two pounds of cocaine into Newark Airport in bags of coffee and picture frames, federal authorities said. Federal agents seized Perez Omar Gibbs, 37, after he arrived over the weekend aboard a flight from Montego Bay and charged him with importing drugs, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig said Monday. U.S. Magistrate Judge Cathy L. Waldor ordered that Gibbs remain in federal custody without bail during a video-conferenced hearing Monday in Newark. Honig credited special agents of the New Jersey Division of the U.S. Department of…
South Passaic
Police & Fire
President: Out-Of-State Agitators Hijacking Peaceful Protests Will Be Prosecuted
Peaceful protests across the country have been "hijacked by outside radicals and agitators exploiting the situation to pursue their own separate and violent agenda," Attorney General William P. Barr said Saturday. Meanwhile, President Trump called on "Liberal Governors and Mayors” to get “much tougher” in dealing with protesters “or the Federal Government will step in and do what has to be done, and that includes using the unlimited power of our Military and many arrests.” “Crossing State lines to incite violence is a FEDERAL CRIME!" Trump tweeted. Protesters rallied peacefully in Englewoo…
Stamford
News
Convicted Stamford Drug Dealer Admits To Possessing Firearm
A Fairfield County man with a previous conviction admitted to a new federal firearm charge, U.S. Attorney John Durham announced. Kevin Genis, 27, of Stamford, pleaded guilty to one count of possession of a firearm by a previously convicted felon, Durham said. He’s been detained since his arrest in June last year and initially pleaded not guilty to the charge. It is alleged that on May 28 last year, an individual working with law enforcement bought a Century Arms International 7.62 caliber AK pistol and 10 rounds of ammunition from Genis for $900. Durham noted that in November 2015, Ge…
Paramus
Police & Fire
Driver Admits Impersonating FBI Agent During Paramus Traffic Stop
A driver from Queens admitted in federal court Thursday that he showed Paramus police who pulled him over this summer a fake badge, creds and security access card while claiming to be an FBI agent. Tornike Lubyk, 28, could face a federal prison sentence and a fine for impersonating a federal agent, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. Lubyk pleaded guilty to the charge before U.S. District Judge Stanley R. Chesler in Newark, admitting that he “falsely advised Paramus officers that he was with the FBI’s C-22 organized crime squad based in the Manhattan field office” during a July traffic stop…
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock
Police & Fire
Fair Lawn Detective Makes Arrests In Separate Mailbox Check Thefts
A Fair Lawn police detective nailed two different people in connection with the thefts of checks that residents mailed outside the Radburn Post Office. In each case, the checks never made it to their destinations and were cashed by someone else, Sgt. Brian Metzler said. Detective Paul Donohue made arrests in both. Michelle Rivera, 18 of Paterson, was charged with theft by deception after claiming that she gave her bank card to an unidentified person who wanted to cash one of the checks. Gilbert Acevedo, 21, of Paterson, was charged with the same offense after admitting that he was paid $3…
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock
Police & Fire
Latest Mailbox Theft, Outside Glen Rock Post Office, Costs Ridgewood Woman $1,788
In what’s become an epidemic of sorts, a Ridgewood woman became one of the latest mailbox theft victims after someone stole and cashed $1,788 in checks that she’d deposited outside the Glen Rock Post Office, police said. Thieves who once used wire and some type of adhesive to fish envelopes from boxes are now simply prying them open and snatching bundles of mail -- often from in front of post offices after hours, authorities throughout North Jersey say. Daily Voice reported one earlier today out of Oradell. SEE: Mailbox Thefts Continue, This Time Outside Oradell Post Office Glen Rock…
Paramus
Police & Fire
Mailbox Thefts Continue, This Time Outside Oradell Post Office
Oradell became the latest town to be victimized by mailbox thieves. Whoever was responsible broke into the boxes outside the Oradell Post Office Sunday night, borough police said. “Numerous pieces of mail were opened and checks taken,” they said. “Some mail was recovered including many holiday cards.” The U.S. Postal Inspection Service was notified. Meanwhile, borough police said, “keep checking your personal accounts for unusual activity if you mailed any money this weekend.” Citizens in towns throughout North Jersey have reported a steady stream of mail thefts. Where once the thieves …
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