Bethlehem PA June 9 2022 A 35-year-old Pottsville man in early January used rewards cards from at least 26 people to steal more than $2,500 in credits and win more than $1,600 on Wind Creek Casino slot machines in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania State Police report. The man was charged Tuesday with 63 third-degree felonies, including theft, […]
NEWARK, N.J. June 7 2022– A Morris County, New Jersey, man today admitted conspiring to commit bank fraud and accepting bribes, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced. Kurt Phelps, 53, of Flanders, New Jersey, pleaded guilty by videoconference before U.S. District Judge Kevin McNulty to an indictment charging him with one count of conspiracy to commit […]
Boston MA June 4 2022 The president of the Boston union representing Transportation Security Administration workers has pleaded guilty to wire fraud. Marie A. LeClair, 59, of Lynn, Massachusetts, is slated to be sentenced by US District Court Judge Indira Talwani on Aug. 16 in Boston. LeClair faces up to 20 years behind bars, three […]
Los Angeles CA May 31 2022 Six people have been arrested for allegedly operating a recycling fraud scheme in the Los Angeles area that scammed more than $10 million from the state’s recycling program by bringing more than nine tons of out-of-state materials from Arizona for redemption, state Attorney General Rob Bonta announced. The defendants, who […]
Jersey City NJ May 12 2022 A second Jersey City school district security guard has been charged with submitting fraudulent insurance claims, Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez said. A security guard employed by the Jersey City Public Schools was arrested by members of the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office Insurance Fraud Unit for submitting fraudulent medical claims […]
Cocoa FL May 6 2022 A Florida woman was arrested Wednesday for allegedly pocketing more than $10,000 from a fund created to pay for some Boy Scouts’ trip to Europe. Robin DeRushie, 44, was working as a district committee member for a Scout troop in Cocoa, Florida, when in January 2022 she was entrusted to deposit […]
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. Feb 12, 2022 Agents with the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division arrested a North Charleston police officer and a police recruit in connection to an alleged car insurance scam. Authorities announced the arrest of former NCPD officer Armani Ellison and former Police Recruit Tariq Ramkalup who each face charges of misconduct in office […]
TEMPE, Ariz. Feb 8, 2022– Secret Service agents arrested a Tempe Home Depot employee for passing nearly $400,000 in counterfeit U.S. currency, the federal law enforcement agency said Friday. The suspect, identified as Adrian Jean Pineda, was once a vault associate at the store near I-10 and Baseline. His job was to count deposits […]
Charlotte NC Feb 2, 2022 A Charlotte, North Carolina man has pleaded guilty to charges of mail fraud after stealing and reselling merchandise from an Amazon warehouse, the Department of Justice said in a news release. Between June 2020 and September 2021, Douglas Wright, Jr., an operations manager at Amazon’s Charlotte warehouse, allegedly stole products with a […]
Nassau County NY Feb 1, 2022 Jean, a 73-year-old grandmother, was at her Long Island home Thursday morning when she received a phone call from a man claiming to be her grandson. He was in jail for drunken driving, he said. He needed her help posting an $8,000 bail. But there was one problem, Jean […]