Press Releases from National Press Office http://www.fbi.gov/fieldnews/breaking.htm Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:25:26 -0400 Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:13:13 -0400 FeedForAll v2.0 (2.0.2.9) http://www.feedforall.com Antonio Castillo, of McAllen, Texas, pled guilty to being an accessory after the fact in his effort to help a convicted drug trafficker to escape from federal custody. http://sanantonio.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel08/escape082608.htm 7DB7CBF0-D679-4674-8952-F2E74C8FBBF9 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:10:18 -0400 Brian D. Harris, of Overland Park, Kansas, was sentenced to 12.5 years in federal prison for distribution of child pornography. http://kansascity.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel08/childporn082508.htm 30DD85C2-081D-4F86-8AC0-6D3BA355ED99 Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:06:35 -0400 Thomas K. Gorsin, of Clifton Park, New York, was arrested on charges of using, or attempting to use, a facility or means of interstate commerce to persuade, induce, entice or coerce a 14-year-old male minor to engage in a sexual act. http://albany.fbi.gov/filelink.html?file=dojpressrel/pressrel08/safechildhood082608.pdf 3B64DEC7-BAF9-4E6C-B83F-84337EE4F416 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:02:36 -0400 Saifullah Anjum Ranjha, a Pakistani national residing in Washington, D.C. and Maryland, pled guilty to conspiring to launder money and to concealing terrorist financing. http://baltimore.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel08/ba082208.htm 837E0385-1A0E-4351-B6A3-0673FF01BEC8 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:59:47 -0400 Leslie Woodside Dial, of Sinton, Texas, a former senior vice-president of two Corpus Christi, Texas-area banks, Commercial State Bank and State Bank and Trust, pled guilty to embezzling more than $285,000 from the banks during the course of her employment. http://houston.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel08/ho08262008.htm 6555C0B3-A422-4633-9306-53DDB47C572D Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:38:23 -0400 Shawn Robert Adolf and Nathan Dwaine Johnson were charged with federal gun violations and methamphetamine possession, and Tharin Robert Gartrell was charged with methamphetamine possession following a traffic stop in Aurora, Colorado. http://denver.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/2008/gunviol082608.htm C15C2896-F4A0-415E-B044-55361E2BECB4 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:11:51 -0400 Marc Harold Ramsey, who is presently serving time in the Arapahoe, Colorado County Jail, was charged with mailing a threatening letter containing a white powder-like substance to Senator John McCain's presidential campaign office. http://denver.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/2008/threatletter082208.htm 3B921D4C-C3DF-44BE-9BB6-B515D926978C Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:08:51 -0400 Brian L. Biggs and Edward Brosky, both of Wilmington, Delaware, were indicted in separate cases for various child pornography offenses. http://baltimore.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel08/ba082608a.htm 244364E3-3994-42BA-9C6C-D572A7EFED40 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:57:55 -0400 Arthur Eli Cheney, of Napa, California, pled guilty to robbing 20 banks and credit unions, 19 of which were in California and one in Utah, during a six-month period in 2007. http://sanfrancisco.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/2008/sf082508.htm 3A97F8B9-79AC-4B8A-A570-EDF2F4C7A41B Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:51:50 -0400 Edgar J. Beaudreault, of Alpharetta, Georgia; Howard A. Sperling, of San Diego, California; and Robert B. Surles, of Canon City, Colorado, were indicted in Atlanta, Georgia on multiple charges related to their roles in a construction escrow fraud scheme. http://atlanta.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel08/escrowfraud082608.htm 49837EBB-63B8-4B88-85F5-F2D65652EDA5 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:41:53 -0400 Carlos Lopez and David Ray White, both active duty soldiers from Camp Frank D. Merrill, a United States Army Ranger mountain training facility in Dahlonega, Georgia, were sentenced to three years and two years in prison, respectively, for their roles in a conspiracy to rob a cocaine dealer at gunpoint. http://atlanta.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel08/drugrobbery082508.htm 96503568-B27B-48A5-B7EC-9D0C702EC1BE Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:39:40 -0400 Carlos Rene Machuca, of Midland, Texas, was sentenced to more than 11 years in prison for bank fraud and conspiracy to commit bank fraud, four counts of money laundering, and three counts of aggravated identity theft. http://elpaso.fbi.gov/filelink.html?file=dojpressrel/pressrel08/fraud082608.pdf FEA05A5E-8382-4C5D-BF18-8270F3B19CFE Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:31:39 -0400 Karl and Helen Rehberg, of Lakeland, Florida, were sentenced to five years and two years in prison, respectively, and ordered to pay more than $20 million in restitution, for their involvement in a biodiesel fuel scam in the 1990s. http://tampa.fbi.gov/filelink.html?file=dojpressrel/2008/fuelscam082208.pdf DC78760C-0D02-49A1-B028-749C438ED5BF Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:39:57 -0400 Gerald Dean Burgess, of Tuckerman, Arkansas, was sentenced to two years probation and ordered to pay a $20,000 fine for threatening to shoot a United States Fish and Wildlife officer with a shotgun. http://littlerock.fbi.gov/filelink.html?file=dojpressrel/pressrel08/officethreat082508.pdf 719895E4-CBA6-4A0A-934B-442835CD7BE4 Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:23:43 -0400 Lexton Pellew and Jose Lucas, both of Brooklyn, New York, were sentenced to 24 years and 23 years in prison, respectively, for their roles in the August 20, 2006 robbery of a Washington, D.C. jewelry store during which the owner was shot. http://washingtondc.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel08/wfo082208.htm 369C1DF1-6DD8-4053-A1BA-2AE37C5183C9 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:23:45 -0400 Raynard Davis, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced to 20 years in prison and eight years of supervised release for numerous charges related to his brutal rape of a woman in August 2007, and an earlier unrelated stabbing of a male during an altercation. http://washingtondc.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel08/wfo081908a.htm 903B45D3-A45F-47B7-8F2C-56DAD2BA2EB9 Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:17:49 -0400 Andrew Burroughs, of Lompoc, California, pled guilty to e-mailing extortion threats demanding $500,000 from a hospital in return for not disseminating photos and information he described as incriminating. http://losangeles.fbi.gov/filelink.html?file=dojpressrel/pressrel08/la082508usa.pdf 7949E7C5-DFA3-474A-8033-56359A72606A Mon, 25 Aug 2008 11:49:35 -0400 Cesar Moedano, Leon Rossetto, and Geovani Bernal, all members of the Varrio San Marcos street gang, were sentenced on federal charges arising out of a 2005 gang-related shooting in San Marcos, California, that resulted in the wounding of a 12-year-old boy. http://sandiego.fbi.gov/filelink.html?file=dojpressrel/pressrel08/sd082508.pdf 0253F13B-B489-4308-AAB0-10C7F7EE656D Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:37:37 -0400 Teresa Jo Hedrick, of Salem, Indiana, was sentenced to 2.5 years in prison for her involvement in a $780,000 health care fraud scheme. http://indianapolis.fbi.gov/filelink.html?file=dojpressrel/pressrel08/healthfraud082608.pdf 17DCB273-F59E-4517-96F3-5AFC534D314B Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:27:41 -0400 James Brown, of Owensboro, Kentucky, was sentenced in Indiana to 10 years in prison for dealing crack cocaine. http://indianapolis.fbi.gov/filelink.html?file=dojpressrel/pressrel08/crackdealersent082608.pdf AF2FDDA5-9292-466F-9E42-64F41ADDDFE4 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:15:50 -0400 David Lee Barnes, of Bloomington, Minnesota, was sentenced to 6.5 years in prison and five years of supervised release for his role in the armed robberies of three Minnesota banks. http://minneapolis.fbi.gov/filelink.html?file=dojpressrel/pressrel08/bankrobbery082508.pdf 0E80BD6A-D6EA-4FEB-9AB6-F4C3FDF7C4EE Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:55:22 -0400 The FBI is seeking public assistance in identifying the man who robbed a Wells Fargo Bank branch in Albuquerque, New Mexico on August 22, 2008. A reward is being offered for information leading to his arrest. http://albuquerque.fbi.gov/pressrel/2008/bankrobbery082208.htm 61161B61-B5FF-45C0-BC7D-894C2987554A Fri, 22 Aug 2008 10:24:09 -0400 Sallie Wamsley-Saxon, Donald Verdery Saxon, and Glen Fox, all of North Carolina, were sentenced to 24 months, 21 months, and 15 months in prison, respectively, for their involvement in an Internet-based prostitution ring. http://charlotte.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/2008/ce082608.htm F3F9C8A7-CA04-44C1-8A41-7838437C7D4B Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:17:18 -0400 Latosha N. Mathis, aka Shahanna Byrd, of Columbus, Ohio, was sentenced to more than 19 years in prison for carjacking a cable technician’s van and shooting the driver when he tried to escape. http://cincinnati.fbi.gov/doj/pressrel/2008/ci082608.htm 4EF458EA-799C-494C-8F74-8E107F61C90D Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:05:31 -0400 Robin Neil Snyder, of Pikesville, Maryland, was sentenced to more than eight years in prison for wire fraud, money laundering, and obstructing justice arising from a scheme to defraud commercial loan applicants of more than $650,000. http://baltimore.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel08/ba082608.htm A3A9D146-4FA5-4D57-A7F8-29E32877EFF1 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 09:45:13 -0400