FBI Up Date

Texas Man Sentenced to More Than 17 Years on Child Pornography Charge


Fri, 09 Jul 2010 15:09:46 -0500



Jason Andrew Watkins, of Grand Prairie, Texas, was sentenced to 17.5 years in federal prison for receiving child pornography. More than 190 images and 20 videos of child pornography were found on Watkins' computers and other media.







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Texas Man Pleads Guilty to Child Pornography Charges

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 15:12:19 -0500



James Cagle, of Grand Prairie, Texas, pled guilty to one count of transporting and shipping child pornography. Cagle admitted that he received and possessed more than 600 videos and images of child pornography.







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Texas Pastor Sentenced on Child Pornography Charge

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 15:15:32 -0500



Dean Richard Tarkington, of Lubbock, Texas, a former pastor at a local church, was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to attempted possession of child pornography. Tarkington had secretly engaged in sex chat and phone sex with young women and teenage girls on the Internet and encouraged them to send him pornographic images of themselves.







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Massachusetts Man Convicted of Threatening to Assault a Federal Official

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 15:20:11 -0500



Thomas Stefanik, of Huntington, Massachusetts, was convicted of threatening to confront a First Circuit Court supervisor with a shotgun.







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Jamaican National Sentenced in Rhode Island for Serial Armed Bank Robbery

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 15:30:08 -0500



Dwayne, K. Lewis, of Bridgeport, Connecticut, was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison in connection with his commission of armed bank robberies in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and New York. Lewis, a Jamaican national, faces a deportation hearing after completing his prison sentence.







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Pennsylvania Man Pleads Guilty to Drug Charge

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 15:38:25 -0500



John A. Stevenson, of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, pled guilty to a charge of distributing cocaine base, commonly known as crack.







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Accountant for Former Arizona Congressman Guilty of Embezzling Insurance Premiums

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 15:42:59 -0500



Dwayne Lequire, of Elgin, Arizona, an accountant for an insurance agency owner by former Arizona congressman Richard Renzi, was found guilty of eight counts of embezzling insurance premiums and one count of conspiracy in connection with embezzling $796,000 of insurance premiums held in trust.







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Bureau of Prisons Corrections Officer Convicted in Florida on Civil Rights Charges

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 15:53:48 -0500



Former Bureau of Prisons corrections officer Michael Kennedy was found guilty in Orlando, Florida of felony federal civil rights charges related to the fatal assault of an inmate in March 2005 at the Federal Correctional Complex Coleman in Coleman, Florida.







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Minnesota Special Education Teacher Pleads Guilty to Child Pornography Charges

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 16:19:34 -0500



Alan Larsen, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, a former special education teacher for the St. Paul Public School District, pled guilty to producing and possessing child pornography, some of which involved children in his care.







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Minnesota Woman Pleads Guilty to Role in $400,000 Mortgage Fraud Scheme

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 16:22:47 -0500



Sharon Michelle Thomas, of Otsego, Minnesota, pled guilty to participating in a mortgage fraud scheme that resulted in a $400,000 loss to several mortgage loan lenders.







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Maryland Accountant Sentenced for Defrauding Client While Awaiting Trial

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 16:25:35 -0500



Former accountant Wilkins McNair, of Ellicott City, Maryland, was sentenced to 70 months in prison for wire fraud and witness tampering in connection with a scheme to defraud a client of nearly $1 million. McNair conducted this scheme while awaiting trial on other federal fraud charges.







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Virginia Volleyball Referee Sentenced for Attempted Enticement of a Minor

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 16:37:58 -0500



Former volleyball referee and coach Richard L. Rockett, Jr., of Alexandria, Virginia, was sentenced to 121 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for attempting to entice a person he believed to a 13-year-old girl to engage in criminal sexual activity.







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Virginia MS-13 Member Sentenced to 27 Years in Prison for Role in Murder of Pimp

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 16:45:11 -0500



MS-13 member Eris Ramon Arguera, of Alexandria, Virginia, was sentenced to 27 years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for his role in the murder of a pimp while robbing the pimp and a prostitute in Alexandria on July 29, 2009.







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Connecticut Man Sentenced for Distributing PCP

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 16:47:58 -0500



Darryl Lewis, of New Haven, Connecticut,was sentenced to seven years in prison after pleading guilty to possession with intent to distribute, and distribution of, between 400 and 700 grams or more of liquid phencyclidine, also known as PCP.







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Two Colorado Men Plead Guilty in Connection with Mortgage Fraud Scheme

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 16:50:48 -0500



Shawn R. Tieskotter, of Greenwood Village, Colorado, and Craig D. Patterson, of Littleton, Colorado, each pled guilty to one count of mail fraud, admitting that they knowingly executed and attempted to execute a scheme to defraud various financial institutions as well as commercial mortgage lenders in connection with residential mortgage loan applications relating to 13 properties in the Denver area.







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Operators of Colorado Medical Center Indicted for Health Care Fraud

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 16:55:05 -0500



Dilorom Asimova, of Aurora, Colorado, and Terry Gardner, of Chesterfield, Missouri, the operators of TJD Medical Center and Rehab in Colorado, were indicted for their roles in a scheme to defraud Colorado Medicaid and Medicare programs in connection with the delivery of payment for health care benefits.







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West Virginia Man Pleads Guilty to Interstate Travel to Engage in Sex with a Toddler

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 16:59:07 -0500



Jason P. Anderson, of New Martinsville, West Virginia, pled guilty in Columbus, Ohio to one count of interstate travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct for traveling between Ohio and West Virginia and having sexual relations with a 3-year-old girl.







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Ohio Middle School Teacher and Coach Sentenced on Child Pornography Charges

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 17:01:19 -0500



Michael S. Highman, of Upper Arlington, Ohio, a former middle school teacher and boys basketball coach, was sentenced to 136 months in prison for using an Internet site to share more than 200,000 images and movies of prepubescent teenage boys engaged in sexual acts.







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Ohio Man Pleads Guilty to Sexual Exploiting Child

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 17:04:20 -0500



Steven Ray Tackett, of Cardington, Ohio, pled guilty to one count of sexual exploitation of children, admitting that he took sexually explicit photos of an 8-year-old girl and posted the pictures on an Internet photo-sharing site.







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Members of Texas Drug Smuggling Organization Tied to Barrio Aztecas Sentenced

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 17:10:42 -0500



Gualberto Marquez, a member of the Barrio Azteca Criminal Enterprise and leader of a drug distribution network based in El Paso, Texas, as well as eight other defendants, were sentenced to varying federal prison terms on drug distribution charges.







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Michigan Boy Scout Camp Director Arrested on Child Pornography Charges

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 17:17:01 -0500



Scott Allan Herrick, the camp director for Gerber Boy Scout Camp in Twin Lakes, Michigan, was arrested on charges alleging that he received, distributed, and possessed child pornography.







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New Jersey Bloods Gang Members, Associate Sentenced for Murder Conspiracy

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 17:19:37 -0500



Matthew Turner and Anthony Walker, both members of the New Jersey Fruit Town Brims (FTB) set of the Bloods street gang, were each sentenced to 13 years in prison, and FTB associate David Ariste was sentenced to 10 years in prison for their roles in the shooting death of a Jersey City, New Jersey teenager in 2004.







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Two Men Sentenced in Kentucky for Distributing Crack Cocaine

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 17:39:44 -0500



Lionel Heard, of Cincinnati, Ohio, and Arthur Crawford, of Florence, Kentucky, were each sentenced to nine years in prison for conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine.