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| March 2009 | |
| March 13, 2009 | Clifton B. Cole, age 43, of Dayton, was SENTENCED in United States District Court here to 24 months imprisonment and a lifetime of supervised release for possessing numerous images and videos depicting child pornography. More Details |
| March 13, 2009 | Damian Kirby, age 30, of Cincinnati was SENTENCED in United States District Court here to a total of 70 months imprisonment, followed by 20 years of supervised release, as punishment for ordering two sexually explicit videos of children. More Details |
| March 12, 2009 | A U.S. Magistrate Judge here has ordered Kyle Jeffrey Tschiegg, age 38 of Sarasota, held without bond pending trial. Tschiegg is CHARGED with sending hundreds of threatening emails and text messages to victims. More Details Affidavit |
| March 10, 2009 | Gary L. Varney, age 55, of Amelia, PLEADED GUILTY in United States District Court here today to one count of bank fraud for moving money back and forth between checking accounts of two gravel supply companies he owned. More Details Plea Agreement Statement of Facts Information |
| March 10, 2009 | Albert Jefferson Stone, age 29, of Hamilton, PLEADED GUILTY in United States District Court here today to one count of possession of child pornography and admitted viewing child pornography on a church computer. More Details Plea Agreement Statement of Facts |
| March 06, 2009 | William Appleton, age 41, formerly of Cincinnati and now living in Seattle, PLEADED GUILTY in United States District Court here today to one count of mail fraud and one count of income tax evasion. More Details Plea Agreement |
| March 05, 2009 | Donnell L. Cook, age 28, of Dayton, Ohio, was SENTENCED in United States District Court to 120 months imprisonment on drug conspiracy charges involving possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine. More Details |
| March 04, 2009 | Teams of federal, state and local law enforcement agents today began ARRESTING 29 people charged in a federal indictment with participating in a drug trafficking organization.. More Details Charges |
| March 03, 2009 | Robert Fusner, age 33, of Grove City, Ohio PLEADED GUILTY in United States District Court here today to one count of willfully filing a fraudulent 2001 federal income tax return . More Details |
| February 2009 | |
| February 27, 2009 | Dan Wickline, age 62, and his son Chad Wickline, age 34, were SENTENCED in United States District Court here today for their roles in operating a Canal Winchester-based company that fraudulently advertised. More Details |
| February 26, 2009 | Teams of federal, state and local law enforcement agents today began ARRESTING 18 people charged in a federal indictment with distributing heroin in central Ohio following a six-month investigation. More Details Indictment |
| February 26, 2009 | Christopher Paul, a/k/a Abdul Malek, a/k/a Paul Kenyatta Laws, a 44-year-old U.S. citizen born in Columbus, Ohio, was SENTENCED to 20 years in prison today for conspiring. More Details |
| February 26, 2009 | A federal grand jury here has INDICTED Terry Thompson, age 60, of Zanesville, charging him with possession of illegal firearms, including machine guns and firearms without serial numbers.. More Details |
| February 24, 2009 | A federal grand jury here has INDICTED Terry Flora, age 60, of Springfield, charging him with one count of receipt of child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography.. More Details Indictment |
| February 23, 2009 | Billy Jack Fitzmorris, age 36, was SENTENCED to a total of 960 months imprisonment as punishment for seven crimes he committed following his escape from custody at a hospital in Youngstown on April 2, 2007. More Details |
| February 19, 2009 | Melee Il Kermue, age 32, of Columbus was SENTENCED in United States District Court here today to 22 months imprisonment as punishment for submitting approximately 4,800 fraudulent claims to the Ohio Medicaid program . More Details |
| February 19, 2009 | Teams of federal, state and local law enforcement agents today began ARRESTING 10 people accused in four federal indictments charging them with trafficking cocaine, crack cocaine, and/or marijuana in central and southern Ohio. More Details Charges |
| February 18, 2009 | Albert Ward, age 30, of Cincinnati was SENTENCED in United States District Court here today to 20 years imprisonment for his role in distributing crack cocaine in Middletown in 2007. More Details |
| February 17, 2009 | James Mahoney, age 57, of Mason was SENTENCED in United States District Court here today to 51 months imprisonment for fraud he committed in connection with his purchase of more than $2.3 million in real estate. More Details |
| February 12, 2009 | Pharmacist Brian L. Martin, age 32, was SENTENCED in United States District Court here today to 36 months imprisonment for defrauding the Ohio Medicaid program by submitting “dummy” prescriptions. More Details |
| February 12, 2009 | Larry D. Evans, age 55, of Detroit, Michigan has been SENTENCED in United States District Court here to 54 months imprisonment for cashing six counterfeit payroll checks at Dayton area Huntington Bank branches in July 2007. More Details |
| February 06, 2009 | Tommy Joe Tidwell, age 35 of Dayton, was SENTENCED in United States District Court here today to 84 months imprisonment. More Details |
| January 2009 | |
| January 07, 2009 | A federal grand jury here has INDICTED Elisha Lacy Dickens, age 29 of Pomeroy, charging him with interstate travel to commit a crime resulting in death in connection with the fatal shooting. More Details Indictment |
| January 07, 2009 | Sean T. Porter, age 46, of Dayton, PLEADED GUILTY in United States District Court here to one count of possession of child pornography. More Details |
| January 07, 2009 | A federal grand jury here INDICTED Ronald L. Zullig, age 54, and his wife, Jean A. Zullig, age 52, charging them with conspiracy and fraud arising from their roles in a kickback scheme . More Details Indictment |
| January 05, 2009 | Frank M. Benton, Jr., age 39, of Columbus, PLEADED GUILTY in United States District Court here today to one count of interstate travel and failure to register as a sex offender. More Details |
| January 05, 2009 | Michael Haynie, age 48, of Columbus, PLEADED GUILTY in United States District Court here today to three charges arising from his role in the fatal shooting of a West Virginia drug dealer on June 7, 2008. More Details |
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| December 30, 2008 | Timothy Pearson, age 37, of Beavercreek, Ohio was SENTENCED to serve 20 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $171,211 in restitution. More Details |
| December 29, 2008 | Charles Mack Anderson, age 27, of Springfield, was SENTENCED in United States District Court here today to 30 months imprisonment for Failure to Register as a Sex Offender. More Details |
| December 16, 2008 | A federal court jury here has CONVICTED Jermaine M. Riley, age 24, of crimes connected with his scheme to manufacture and sell crack cocaine in Columbus and Delaware. More Details |
| December 15, 2008 | Julian M. Hickman, age 31, of East Cleveland and formerly of Centerville, PLEADED GUILTY in United States District Court here to two counts of conspiracy and three counts of willful failure to file federal income tax returns. More Details |
| December 11, 2008 | Alfred W. Cash, age 50 of Dayton, PLEADED GUILTY today in United States District Court to one count of Failure to Register as a Sex Offender. More Details |
| December 10, 2008 | Three 22-year-old Dayton men, Jeremy Lewis, Johnny Wilkerson, and Trey Geter, have been INDICTED by a Federal Grand Jury on multiple felony charges stemming from the armed robbery of Key Bank on Linden Avenue in East Dayton on December 4. More Details Indictment |
| December 05, 2008 | A federal grand jury here has INDICTED Dr. Dominic Joseph Maga, age 60, of Dayton, charging him with tax evasion and willful failure to file income tax returns on his taxable income of more than $220,000 per year for the past four years. More Details Indictment |
| December 04, 2008 | A federal grand jury here today returned three separate indictments CHARGING three Columbus men in connection with ten bank robberies that occurred in the area between October 2007 and September 2008.. More Details Dingey Indictment | Williams Indictment | Wilbanks Indictment |
| December 04, 2008 | Eric Philpot, age 41, of Cincinnati, was SENTENCED in United States District Court here today to 37 months imprisonment for a scheme he ran that defrauded mortgage lenders out of more than $200,000 in less than two years.. More Details |
| December 03, 2008 | A federal grand jury here today returned a nine-count INDICTMENT against Frederick D. Purvis, age 42, of Hamilton, charging him with making bomb threats against Cincinnati landmarks and the Denver International Airport. More Details |
| December 03, 2008 | Alan Townsend and Courtney Shine, both of Columbus, PLEADED GUILTY in United States District Court here to one count of transporting an individual in interstate commerce for the purpose of prostitution. More Details |
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| November 20, 2008 | Colburn Kinzer, age 63, of Miamisburg, Ohio, was SENTENCED in United States District Court to sixty months imprisonment for his role in a drug scheme involving the sale of prescription medications in Ohio and Kentucky. More Details Indictment | Plea |
| November 14, 2008 | Omar Little, age 40, of Detroit, was SENTENCED in United States District Court here today to ten years imprisonment for trafficking OxyContin (oxycodone) in the Cincinnati area. More Details |
| November 13, 2008 | Thomas Hastings, age 55, formerly of Cincinnati, was SENTENCED in United States District Court here to 84 months imprisonment for committing fraud using stolen identities. More Details |
| November 13, 2008 | A federal grand jury here has INDICTED four people, alleging that they conspired to distribute thousands of pounds of marijuana in Arizona, Ohio and New England. More Details Indictment |
| November 07, 2008 | Homer Lee Richardson of Loveland, Ohio, and Robert C. Welti, of Ripley, Ohio, were INDICTED by a federal grand jury in Cincinnati, Ohio, on ten charges of criminal violations of federal tax law.. More Details |
| November 07, 2008 | Serge Beauseigle, age 60, of Belleville, Ontario was SENTENCED in United States District Court here to 48 months imprisonment for traveling in interstate commerce in order to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minor. More Details |
| November 06, 2008 | Kristen Rosemary Faessler, age 28, of Maineville, was SENTENCED in United States District Court here today to 12 months imprisonment for concealing assets when she filed for bankruptcy in 2005. More Details |
| November 05, 2008 | Erin M. Stewart, age 34, of Fleming, Ohio, PLEAD GUILTY to filing a false 2002 federal income tax return with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and to wire fraud relative to defrauding her mother out of more than $400,000 over a twelve-year period. More Details Plea | Statement of Facts |
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| October 31, 2008 | A federal jury here today CONVICTED Lance K. Poulsen, former president, owner and chief executive officer of National Century Financial Enterprises (NCFE) of conspiracy, fraud and money laundering. More Details |
| October 30, 2008 | Melee Il Kermue, age 32, of Columbus PLEADED GUILTY in United States District Court here today to one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud. More Details |
| October 30, 2008 | Roger Dale Trent, age 37 of Greenville, was SENTENCED in United States District Court here today to 36 months imprisonment for failure to register as a sex offender. More Details Plea |
| October 28, 2008 | A federal grand jury here has returned a 31-count superseding INDICTMENT charging 15 people with operating a marijuana trafficking enterprise that grossed more than $10 million between March 2007 and March 2008. More Details Indictment | Defendant TOC |
| October 28, 2008 | James Mahoney, age 57, of Mason PLEADED GUILTY y in United States District Court here today to one count of mail fraud affecting a financial institution in connection with his purchase of more than $2.3 million in real estate. More Details |
| October 24, 2008 | Tommy Joe Tidwell, age 35 of Dayton, PLEADED GUILTY in United States District Court here today to leading a conspiracy that manufactured and placed fraudulent Universal Price Code (UPC) labels on more than $1 million in merchandise. More Details |
| October 21, 2008 | Jonathan Brown, age 33, of Columbus was SENTENCED in United States District Court here today to 91 months imprisonment for possessing almost 2,000 images and more than 12 hours of videos of pornography involving children. More Details |
| October 06, 2008 | Rodney R. Richley, II, age 60, of Cape Coral, Florida was SENTENCED in United States District Court here to ten years in prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release for defrauding clients of his payroll company. More Details |
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| September 30, 2008 | Assistant United States Attorneys David Devillers and Kevin Kelley have been selected by the National Association of Former United States Attorneys (“NAFUSA”), to receive the association’s 2008 award for outstanding single trial in the nation. More Details |
| September 24, 2008 | Charles Goff, Jr., age 38, of Dayton was SENTENCED to serve an additional 30 years in federal prison for his leadership role in a massive drug trafficking and money laundering conspiracy. More Details |
| September 24, 2008 | Cincinnati attorney Kenneth L. Lawson, age 45, PLEADED GUILTY in United States District Court here today to one count of conspiracy to illegally obtain controlled substances. More Details |
| September 22, 2008 | Pharmacist Brian L. Martin of Wilmington was CONVICTED in United States District Court here today of 37 counts of defrauding the Ohio Medicaid Program by submitting “dummy” prescriptions. More Details |
| September 19, 2008 | Carson Trader, age 61, of Sidney, PLEADED GUILTY in United States District Court here to one count of possession of child pornography. More Details |
| September 19, 2008 | Wilbur Leroy Brown, age 31, of Miami County, was SENTENCED in United States District Court here to 30 months imprisonment for writing a letter containing threats against the President of the United States. More Details |
| September 17, 2008 | A federal grand jury here has INDICTED Thomas E. Parenteau, of Columbus, Ohio, and Dennis G. Sartain, of Hilliard, Ohio, in a six-count indictment alleging that Parenteau and Sartain obstructed justice, tampered with a witness by influencing witness testimony. More Details Indictment |
| September 17, 2008 | A United States District Court jury here today CONVICTED Billy Jack Fitzmorris, age 35, of seven crimes committed following his escape from custody at a hospital in Youngstown on April 2, 2007. More Details |
| September 11, 2008 | Vitali Popkov, age 31, of Morrow PLEADED GUILTY in United States District Court here today to one count of committing income tax evasion and one count of aiding and abetting marriage fraud. More Details |
| September 10, 2008 | Marcus K. Cobb, age 38, of Columbus was SENTENCED in United States District Court here today to 102 years imprisonment for three robberies he committed in 2006 and 2007. More Details |
| September 05, 2008 | Rondale Lynch, age 21, of Dayton, was SENTENCED in United States District Court here today to four years imprisonment for robbing a Dayton convenience store one day and a credit union the next day. More Details |
| September 05, 2008 | Edwin Arthur Avery, age 26, of Springfield, was SENTENCED in United States District Court here today to 15 years imprisonment for being a felon in possession of a firearm. More Details |
| September 04, 2008 | Charles G. Franks, age 35, of West Milton, was SENTENCED in United States District Court here today to ten years imprisonment for possessing approximately 2,850 still images and 87 videos of minors engaged in sexually explicit behavior. More Details |
| September 03, 2008 | Larry L. Riffle, age 60, of Greenville, Ohio was SENTENCED in United States District Court here to twelve months imprisonment, the statutory maximum, for falsifying records and failing to maintain accurate documentation of his firearms inventory and sales. More Details Statement of Facts |
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| August 29, 2008 | Four Dayton-area men were SENTENCED in U.S. District Court to significant prison terms for their roles in a drug conspiracy involving a plan to rob other drug traffickers of a cocaine shipment. More Details |
| August 29, 2008 | The last of eleven Berkeley Premium Nutraceutical executives who either pleaded guilty or were convicted for their part in a multi-million dollar fraud scheme was SENTENCED in United States District Court here today More Details |
| August 26, 2008 | Latosha N. Mathis, aka Shahanna Byrd, age 34, of Columbus, was SENTENCED in United States District Court here today to 230 months imprisonment for carjacking a cable technician’s van and shooting the driver when he tried to escape. More Details |
| August 26, 2008 | Agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement today ARRESTED Bozhidar Bakalov, age 38, and Stacy Harbstreit, age 23, both of Cincinnati on charges contained in a federal complaint filed in U.S. District Court here and unsealed today. More Details |
| August 14, 2008 | Thirteen individuals were CHARGED in a 49-count INDICTMENT returned yesterday by a federal grand jury in Dayton, following an investigation conducted by the Dayton Safe Streets Task Force. More Details Indictment |
| August 14, 2008 | Billy Jack Fitzmorris, age 35, formerly of Columbus was SENTENCED in United States District Court here today to 30 years imprisonment for drug trafficking conspiracy and five years for possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. More Details |
| August 08, 2008 | Lance K. Poulsen, former Chief Executive Officer of National Century Financial Enterprises (NCFE), was SENTENCED in United States District Court here today to ten years imprisonment and fined $17,500 for conspiring. More Details |
| August 07, 2008 | Damien McDougal, age 23, of Dayton today became the second person SENTENCED in connection with the January 11, 2008 armed bank robbery of the Fifth Third Bank in Trotwood. More Details |
| August 01, 2008 | Robert Reinhold, age 56, and a pediatrician in Troy, Ohio was SENTENCED in United States District Court here today to five years imprisonment for receipt of child pornography. More Details |
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| July 31, 2008 | Virginia McGuire, age 62, and her husband, Milton McGuire, age 59, of Harrison Township were SENTENCED yesterday in United States District Court, having been convicted on one count each of making a false, fictitious and fraudulent material representation. More Details |
| July 29, 2008 | A United States District Court Judge here has UPHELD the constitutionality and applicability of the 2006 federal law used to punish sex offenders who fail to register when they travel in interstate commerce. More Details Decision |
| July 29, 2008 | Timothy L. Lantz, age 56, formerly of Columbus, has been taken into CUSTODY in the Philippines after an international search for him that began in January, 2007. More Details Indictment | Complaint |
| July 16, 2008 | A federal grand jury here has INDICTED Joseph P. Marasco, age 42, of Pataskala and owner of Maximum Street Performance motorcycle shop in Hebron, along with Robert M. Fusner, age 33, of Grove City, alleging that they conspired to traffic in illegal drugs. More Details Indictment |
| July 10, 2008 | Jonathan Brown, age 33, of Columbus PLEADED GUILTY in United States District Court here today to one count of possession of child pornography. More Details Plea Agreement | Statement of Facts |
| July 09, 2008 | A federal grand jury here has INDICTED four people alleging that they conspired to manufacture and place fraudulent Universal Price Code (UPC) labels on an estimated $1.6 million dollars. More Details Indictment |
| July 09, 2008 | A federal grand jury here has INDICTED John D. Bray, age 48, formerly of Dayton but whose whereabouts are now unknown, charging him in a 24-count indictment with tax evasion . More Details Indictment |
| July 09, 2008 | Chad Wickline, age 34, and his father, Dan Wickline, age 61, both of Pickerington, PLEADED GUILTY in United States District Court here today to selling a credit card debt-elimination scheme. More Details Plea Agreement (Chad) | Plea Agreement (Dan) Statement of Facts |
| July 03, 2008 | Lance Alan Murray, 25, of Kendallville, Indiana, was SENTENCED to a mandatory term of two years in prison for aggravated identity theft in an attempted bank fraud scheme. More Details |
| July 01, 2008 | Zachary Lee Alder, age 21, of Bradford was SENTENCED to eight months imprisonment for failing to register pursuant to the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act. More Details |
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| June 27, 2008 | Dumond Henderson, age 37, of Springfield, was SENTENCED in United States District Court here to 24 months imprisonment for defrauding a lender out of more than $130,000 and keeping the money rather than paying the seller for the house he claimed he was buying. More Details |
| June 26, 2008 | Von C. Cummings, age 38, formerly of Columbus was SENTENCED in United States District Court here today to 40 months imprisonment for his role in a scam that defrauded at least 24 individuals and organizations who invested with him. More Details |
| June 26, 2008 | Victor Delgadillo Parra, age 21, was SENTENCED in United States District Court here today to 200 months imprisonment for committing manslaughter when he sold heroin to a Grove City man who then died from an overdose of the drug. More Details |
| June 26, 2008 | Agencies participating in the Dayton Mortgage Fraud Task Force today began ARRESTING six current or former Dayton-area residents accused of operating an extensive mortgage fraud scheme affecting 210 residential properties. More Details Indictment |
| June 19, 2008 | Marcus Holt, age 23 of Dayton, was SENTENCED in United States District Court here today to ten years imprisonment for his role in the January 11, 2008 robbery of the Fifth Third Bank in Trotwood. More Details |
| June 19, 2008 | Eric Philpot, age 40, of Cincinnati, has PLEADED GUILTY in United States District Court here to one count of mail fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering. More Details Plea Agreement |
| June 18, 2008 | Phillip Roth, age 43, and his ex-stepmother, Beverly Roth, age 65, of Beavercreek, PLEADED GUILTY in United States District Court here today to conspiracy to launder money in connection with their role in an illegal gambling operation. More Details Plea Agreement |
| June 17, 2008 | Keith L. Bennett, Special Agent in Charge (SAC), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Cincinnati Division; Richard Zott, Special Agent in Charge (SAC), Central Field Office, Defense Criminal Investigative Services (DCIS); and Gregory G. Lockhart, U.S. Attorney, Southern District of Ohio, announce that on June 14, 2008 Metin Atilan, age 48, who holds dual U.S. and Turkish citizenship, FLED home detention imposed as a condition of his release after his arrest by FBI agents . More Details |
| June 12, 2008 | Former Zanesville Police Officer Trevor Fusner, age 32, and former Genesis Health Care System Police Officer Chad Mills, age 30, were each SENTENCED in United States District Court here today to 80 months imprisonment. More Details |
| June 05, 2008 | Charles Franks, age 34, of West Milton, PLEADED GUILTY in United States District Court here today to one count of Possession of Child Pornography. More Details Plea Agreement |
| June 03, 2008 | Christopher Paul, a/k/a “Abdul Malek,” a/ka “Paul Kenyatta Laws,” a 44-year-old U.S. citizen born in Columbus, Ohio, has PLEADED GUILTY today to conspiring with others to use a weapon of mass destruction, namely explosive devices. More Details Plea Agreement Statement of Facts |
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| May 30, 2008 | A federal grand jury here has INDICTED three Columbus-area residents for trafficking marijuana, cocaine and crack cocaine and for using the money from the crime to buy a bar and commit mortgage fraud. More Details Indictment |
| May 30, 2008 | John Harrison, age 48, of Xenia, was SENTENCED to twelve months in federal prison for Social Security Fraud for unlawfully collecting disability payments for seven years. More Details |
| May 23, 2008 | A United States District Court jury here CONVICTED Marcus K. Cobb, age 38, of Columbus of committing a series of armed robberies in 2006 and 2007. More Details |
| May 22, 2008 | A federal grand jury here today INDICTED three Columbus-area residents for allegedly breaking into five pharmacies in the Columbus area earlier this year and stealing prescription drugs in order to re-sell them. More Details Indictment |
| May 22, 2008 | Former Zanesville Police officer Sean Beck, age 29, PLEADED GUILTY in United States District Court here today to one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute more than 500 grams of cocaine. More Details Plea Agreement Statement of Facts |
| May 15, 2008 | Ten teams totaling almost 100 Columbus Police officers, agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Deputy U.S. Marshals, and officers of the Ohio Adult Parole Authority today began ARRESTING 36 people named in eleven federal indictments and four others wanted on state charges. More Details Charges |
| May 12, 2008 | Jay Michael Sullivan, age 39, of Cincinnati, was SENTENCED in United States District Court here today to a total of 15 months imprisonment followed by three years of supervised release, and fined $7,500. More Details |
| May 08, 2008 | Teams of federal, state and local law enforcement agents today began ARRESTING 27 people accused in two federal indictments of operating a heroin trafficking organization operating along U.S. Route 33 in central Ohio. More Details Kelsor Indictment | Hardy Indictment | Beheler Indictment |
| May 08, 2008 | A federal grand jury here INDICTED Adrian D. Mitchell, age 35, charging him with mail fraud, wire fraud and bank fraud in connection with a real estate related business he operated. More Details Indictment |
| May 02, 2008 | Robert Reinhold, age 55, and a pediatrician in Troy, Ohio PLEADED GUILTY in United States District Court here today to one count of receipt of child pornography. More Details Plea Agreement |
| May 02, 2008 | Two more Columbus-area people INDICTED as part of a mortgage fraud scheme that secured more than $7 million in mortgage loans pleaded guilty in United States District Court here today. More Details |
| May 01, 2008 | Steven C. Gittinger, age 50, of Cincinnati, PLEADED GUILTY in United States District Court here today to one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud and one count of money laundering for his participation in a mortgage fraud scheme. More Details |
| May 01, 2008 | Eight Cincinnati residents who were part of a violent drug trafficking organization operating here have been SENTENCED in United States District Court to sentences ranging from 70 months to 30 years imprisonment. More Details |
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| April 25, 2008 | Zachary Burba, age 35, of Dayton was SENTENCED yesterday to fifty-one months imprisonment for his role in a conspiracy to defraud two area banks of mortgage loan funds using false identification. More Details |
| April 25, 2008 | Kelly Beckles, age 38, of Cleveland, Ohio, was SENTENCED yesterday to twelve months imprisonment for cashing counterfeit checks at Dayton-area Fifth Third Bank locations stemming from a conspiracy with two others. More Details |
| April 11, 2008 | Rodney R. Richley, II, age 59, of Cape Coral, Florida PLEADED GUILTY in U.S. District Court here today to three counts of mail fraud, four counts of tax evasion, and one count of money laundering for defrauding clients of his payroll company, Kettering-based Payroll Data Services, Inc. (“PDS”), of approximately $4.3 million between January 2000 and April 2003. More Details Plea Agreement |
| April 10, 2008 | Mitchell R. Graham, a resident of Loveland, Ohio, PLEADED GUILTY in United States District Court here today to one count of assisting in the preparation of a false federal income tax return for another individual. More Details Plea Agreement |
| April 9, 2008 | Thomas Hastings, age 55, formerly of Cincinnati, PLEADED GUILTY in United States District Court here today to one count of bank fraud, one count of possession of false identification information, and one count of possession of counterfeit money. More Details Statement of Facts Plea Agreement |
| April 9, 2008 | A federal grand jury here returned a 28-count INDICTMENT against Elbert “Lee” Hale, of Washington Township charging him with filing false corporate income tax returns on behalf of his business from 2002 – 2004, and 23 counts of structuring financial transactions. More Details Indictment |
| April 8, 2008 | Randall L. Webb, age 51, of Springboro was SENTENCED in United States District Court here today to 15 months incarceration for his role in a scheme that defrauded homeowners who were in danger of losing their homes through foreclosure. More Details |
| April 4, 2008 | Nathan J. Hochman, Assistant Attorney General for the Tax Division, United States Department of Justice, and Gregory G. Lockhart, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, announced today that Milton Liss, age 64, of Cincinnati, Ohio, PLEADED GUILTY to one charge of conspiracy to defraud the United States in the criminal case brought against himself. More Details |
| April 2, 2008 | Nicole Johnson, age 42, of Trotwood, was SENTENCED in United States District Court here today to a total of 100 months imprisonment for stealing millions of dollars from her employer and her employer’s company. More Details |
| April 1, 2008 | The United States has intervened in a whistleblower suit accusing The Christ Hospital, The Health Alliance of Greater Cincinnati and The Ohio Heart Health Center of defrauding federal health care programs, the Justice Department announced today. More Details |
| April 1, 2008 | Wilson Moss Graham, a Mason accountant, PLEADED GUILTY in United States District Court here today to one count of conspiring to assist in the preparation of false federal income tax returns for his role in the promotion of an illegal tax shelter system. More Details Plea Agreement |
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| March 28, 2008 | A federal grand jury here INDICTED Richard Philpott, age 77, of Waynesville, Ohio on two counts of committing income tax evasion relative to his 2000 and 2001 federal income tax returns. More Details Indictment |
| March 26, 2008 | A federal jury has found two men GUILTY of all charges in a witness tampering scheme related to a major fraud trial held in Columbus, Ohio, Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Gregory G. Lockhart of the Southern District of Ohio announced today. More Details |
| March 26, 2008 | Randall Aaron Davidson, age 58, of Fairborn, was SENTENCED in United States District Court here to 10 years imprisonment for his role in a conspiracy that defrauded real estate investors and banks of more than $20 million over a seven year period. Davidson led a scheme that involved manipulating documents associated with real estate sales and closings in order to obtain excess mortgage loan proceeds generated from the property sales. More Details |
| March 18, 2008 | Matthew Stuemke, age 33, of Dayton was SENTENCED in United States District Court here today to five years imprisonment and three years of supervised release. Stuemke pleaded guilty in August, 2007 to one count of sexual abuse of a minor. More Details |
| March 13, 2008 | A federal jury has found five former executives of National Century Financial Enterprises (NCFE) GUILTY of conspiracy, fraud and money laundering, following a six-week trial and less than two days of deliberation, Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher and U.S. Attorney Gregory G. Lockhart of the Southern District of Ohio announced today. The Columbus, Ohio, jury returned the guilty verdict on all charges contained in a 27-count superseding indictment stemming from a scheme to deceive investors about the financial health of NCFE. More Details |
| March 6, 2008 | Nico Capurro, former coroner of Clermont County, was SENTENCED in United States District Court here today to 90 days of home incarceration, followed by two years of probation, in connection with his involvement with seven “pain clinics” in Lucasville, Chillicothe, Hanging Rock, and Jackson, Ohio. More Details |
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| February 28, 2008 | Mark J. Thornton, age 33, of Dayton, was SENTENCED in United States District Court here today to life imprisonment, without the possibility of release, for his role in a drug trafficking conspiracy in Dayton. More Details |
| February 28, 2008 | Daniel Doyle, age 33, of Spring Valley was SENTENCED in United States District Court here today to 120 months imprisonment for engaging in illicit sexual conduct with a teenage student of his between August 2003 and April 2007 including when coaching and chaperoning her at judo competitions around the world. More Details |
| February 26, 2008 | A United States District Court jury here CONVICTED four executives of Cincinnati-based Berkeley Premium Nutraceuticals of conspiracy and fraud at the conclusion of a trial that started January 8. After conviction on the criminal charges on February 22, the jury found today that Berkeley, as well as company owner Steven E. Warshak, his mother, and TCI Media, another company owned by Warshak, should forfeit to the United States more than $33 million in assets that were proceeds of the crimes. More Details Conviction Chart |
| February 25, 2008 | Butler County Auditor Mary C. Rogers PLEADED GUILTY in United States District Court here to one count of conspiracy to commit bank and mail fraud and one count of filing a false income tax return. More Details Information and Plea Agreement |
| February 21, 2008 | Jose Manuel Cazares Contreras, age 30, and Victor Delgadillo Parra, age 21, PLEADED GUILTY in United States Court here today to committing manslaughter when they sold heroin to a Grove City man who then died from an overdose of the drug. More Details Statement of Facts Plea Agreement |
| February 14, 2008 | Former Zanesville Police Officer Trevor Fusner, age 31, and former Genesis Health Care System Police Officer Chad Mills, age 29, have PLEADED GUILTY in United States District Court here to gun and drug charges. More Details Statement of Facts Fusner Plea Agreement Mills Plea Agreement |
| February 4, 2008 | Charles Evans, age 62, of Dayton, PLEADED GUILTY in United States District Court here today to one count of Possession of Child Pornography. More Details |
| February 1, 2008 | Thomas A. Henderson, age 55, was SENTENCED in United States District Court here today to three consecutive terms of life imprisonment for killing two people who provided information that led to his conviction for robbing a bank in Macon, Georgia in 1981. More Details |
| February 1, 2008 | A federal grand jury here has INDICTED Phillip Roth, age 43, and his ex-stepmother, Beverly Roth, age 65, of Beavercreek, charging each of them with one count of conspiracy to operate an illegal gambling business, one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering and two forfeiture counts in connection with their role in operating an illegal gambling operation since the mid-1970’s that generated $26 million in proceeds. More Details Indictment |
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| January 30, 2008 | Gabriella Kuppich Stever, age 58, of Westerville PLEADED GUILTY in United States District Court here today to one count of theft of money from the federal government. More Details |
| January 28, 2008 | A federal grand jury here has CHARGED in three separate indictments eight Columbus residents who operated specialty markets in Columbus, alleging that they fraudulently redeemed benefits from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Food Stamp and Women, Infants and Children (WIC) programs between January, 2002 and August 2006. Some are also charged with money laundering and subscribing to false income tax returns. More Details |
| January 18, 2008 | Arthur L. Vanwinkle, age 39, of Bradenton, Florida, was SENTENCED Thursday in United States District Court in Dayton to 63 months in federal prison for possession and use of unauthorized access devices in a massive scheme to steal large ticket merchandise from retail stores located throughout Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia and Ohio. More Details |
| January 11, 2008 | The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit today affirmed the 2005 CONVICTION of J. Timothy Halter of Galena for possession of child pornography. Halter is a former township trustee in Berlin Township in Delaware County and is currently serving a five-year sentence for his crime. More Details Opinion |
| January 9, 2008 | Keith Lawrence, age 34, of Cleves, Ohio, was SENTENCED in United States District Court here today to 15 months imprisonment and three years of supervised release for defrauding investors in Internet-based companies he created. More Details |
| January 8, 2008 | Mark VanNest, age 53, of Dayton, was SENTENCED in United States District Court today to 51 months imprisonment on one count of bank fraud in a scheme that involved depositing “kited checks” and fabricating VIN numbers through Motorwerks automobile dealership in Centerville. The scheme defrauded Liberty Savings Bank of nearly $3 million. More Details |
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| December 28, 2007 | Clyde Bennett II, age 43, of Mason, was SENTENCED in United States District Court here today to 24 months imprisonment for illegally structuring bank deposits of cash in an attempt to avoid federal regulations requiring financial institutions to report large cash deposits. More Details |
| December 13, 2007 | In March of this year, local, state and federal law enforcement agencies shut down a massive dog fighting operation based out of Southwest Ohio. This coordinated effort, referred to as “Operation Bite Back,” resulted in the arrest of 54 individuals on state and federal charges. To date, 34 defendants have been CONVICTED. More Details Status of "Operation Bite Back" |
| December 10, 2007 | The suspect apprehended and detained by “Good Samaritan” citizens outside a Kettering business after he held up a nearby bank branch in July was SENTENCED in United States District Court here today. More Details |
| December 06, 2007 | William H. Jewell, age 64, PLEADED GUILTY in United States District Court here today to one count of money laundering in connection his operation of “pain clinics”. More Details |
| December 04, 2007 | A federal grand jury here today INDICTED Erin M. Stewart, age 33, of Fleming, Ohio, charging her with five counts of wire fraud and three counts of filing false income tax returns. More Details |
| December 03, 2007 | An Akron man was SENTENCED here for holding up the Wright-Patt Credit Union in Huber Heights. Juackine Wilson, age 37, robbed the credit union. More Details |
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| November 29, 2007 | The Justice Department announced today it has SUED two Ohio men and their oil-drilling company to stop an alleged tax fraud scheme. The government says the defendants use sham transactions to help customers evade federal taxes. More Details Complaint |
| November 28, 2007 | Six individuals have been ARRESTED on federal charges that they fraudulently obtained U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) low-income subsidy benefits by making false statements about their incomes. More Details |
| November 27, 2007 | An Ohio man has been SENTENCED to serve ten years in prison for conspiring to provide material support to terrorists. More Details |
| November 27, 2007 | Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives special agents (ATF), Trotwood Police officers and members of the United States Marshals Service Southern Ohio Fugitive Apprehension Strike Team (SOFAST) have ARRESTED eight individuals indicted by a federal grand jury. More Details Indictment |
| November 16, 2007 | A federal grand jury here returned a superseding INDICTMENT late yesterday charging Dennis G. Sartain, of Hilliard, with one count of conspiring to defraud the United States by impeding and impairing the Internal Revenue Service. More Details Indictment |
| November 16, 2007 | A federal grand jury here has INDICTED Jose Manuel Cazares Contreras and Victor Delgadillo Parra on charges that they committed manslaughter when they sold heroin to a Grove City man who died from an overdose of the drug. . More Details Indictment |
| November 14, 2007 | Nicole Johnson, age 42, of Trotwood, PLEADED GUILTY in United States District Court here to one count each of bank fraud, money laundering and falsifying a tax return. More Details Plea Agreement |
| November 09, 2007 | Kenneth Larry Belcher, II, age 30 and a former resident of Miami County, was SENTENCED in United States District Court here today to serve 18 months imprisonment followed by five years of supervised release. More Details |
| November 09, 2007 | Daniel Doyle, age 32, of Spring Valley PLEADED GUILTY in United States District Court here today to one count of Engaging in Illicit Sexual Conduct in a Foreign Place. More Details |
| November 06, 2007 | Randall L. Webb, age 50, of Springboro PLEADED GUILTY in United States District Court here today to mail fraud for soliciting homeowners who were in danger of losing their homes through foreclosure. More Details |
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| October 25, 2007 | A federal grand jury here today returned a six-count indictment CHARGING Zanesville Police Officer Sean Beck, age 28, with two counts of trafficking oxycodone, one count of conspiracy, and three counts of possession of a firearm during a drug crime. More Details |
| October 23, 2007 | Steven Whiting, 52, of Adena, Ohio was SENTENCED to serve 12 months and one day of incarceration, three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $11,282 in restitution. More Details |
| October 18, 2007 | A United States District Court jury CONVICTED Mark J. Thornton, age 32, of Dayton, of drug conspiracy and trafficking, as well as a related firearms crime, arising out of his and a co-conspirator’s activities in purchasing multi-kilogram. More Details |
| October 02, 2007 | Zanesville Police Officers Sean Beck, age 28, and Trevor Fusner, age 31, along with Genesis Health Care System Police Officer Chad Mills, age 29, were ARRESTED by FBI agents. More Details Affidavit |
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| September 26, 2007 | Clyde Bennett II, age 43, of Mason, PLEADED GUILTY in United States District Court here today to one count of illegally structuring bank deposits of cash in an attempt to avoid federal regulations. More Details |
| September 25, 2007 | A federal grand jury here today INDICTED Jesse Lee Walters, age 32 of Harrison Township, on one count of failure to register as a sexual offender as required. More Details |
| September 14, 2007 | The owner and operator of Personal Touch Environmental Service, George Lee Flory, was SENTENCED in United States District Court here to a three-year term of probation including six months of home confinement and ordered him to pay $260.948.08 in restitution. More Details |
| September 12, 2007 | Martin Jeff Dorf, age 53 of Huber Heights, PLEADED GUILTY in United States District Court here today to one count of attempted income tax evasion for filing a federal income tax returns for 2001 through 2004. More Details Plea Agreement |
| September 05, 2007 | Kamo Margaryan, age 23, was SENTENCED in United States District Court here today to five months imprisonment following his guilty plea in April to one count of entering into a marriage for the purpose of evading immigration laws. More Details |
| September 04, 2007 | Nico Capurro, former coroner of Clermont County, PLEADED GUILTY in United States District Court here today to one count of structuring money transactions to avoid reporting. More Details |
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| August 30, 2007 | Jason McCord, age 31, formerly of Lewis Center, PLEADED GUILTY in United States District Court here today to two counts of bank fraud and one count of money laundering. More Details |
| August 28, 2007 | Dunyasha M. Yetts, age 36, formerly of Dublin was SENTENCED to a total of 18 months imprisonment and ordered to pay $1.8 million in restitution to victims of a phony investment scheme. More Details |
| August 28, 2007 | Jing Fei Jiang, the owner of Bee’s Buffet restaurant in Fairfield, was SENTENCED in United States District Court here today to a total of 12 months and one day imprisonment and fined $3,000 for hiring illegal aliens to work in his restaurant. More Details |
| August 22, 2007 | A federal grand jury here has returned a 68-count indictment CHARGING nine people with conspiracy, tax evasion, wire fraud, bank fraud and money laundering for their roles in a mortgage fraud scheme. More Details Indictment |
| August 20, 2007 | Jessica Murray, age 36, of Centerville, Ohio was SENTENCED to serve 3 years probation and ordered to complete 100 hours of community service relative to her role in a money laundering scheme. More Details |
| August 20, 2007 | Rodney R. Richley, II, age 59, of Cape Coral, Florida will be ARRAIGNED in U.S. District Court here at 1:30 p.m. tomorrow on charges contained in a 36-count indictment alleging that he defrauded clients of his payroll company. More Details Indictment |
| August 14, 2007 | Former Hebron village Clerk/Treasurer Vicky Fulk was SENTENCED in United States District Court here today to thirty days imprisonment. More Details |
| August 09, 2007 | Kenneth Larry Belcher, II, age 30 and a former resident of Miami County, PLEADED GUILTY in United States District Court here today to one count of failure to register as a sexual offender. More Details |
| August 03, 2007 | A three-count indictment CHARGING five individuals involved in a fraudulent business credit card ring has been unsealed following the arrest of three of the defendants. . More Details Indictment |
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| July 31, 2007 | An Ohio man has PLEADED GUILTY to conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists. More Details Plea Agreement Statement Facts |
| July 26, 2007 | Keith Lawrence, age 34, of Cleves, Ohio, PLEADED GUILTY in United States District Court here today to defrauding investors in Internet-based companies he created out of $532,500. More Details |
| July 24, 2007 | Joseph Edward Fulmer, the owner of a Centerville store that sells and repairs sewing machines and related items, was SENTENCED in United States District Court here to six months imprisonment. More Details |
| July 10, 2007 | Mark Wayne Miller, age 47, of Dayton, was SENTENCED in United States District Court here today to a total of 300 months imprisonment followed by supervised release for the rest of his life. More Details |
| July 10, 2007 | A federal grand jury here today returned a superseding indictment CHARGING eight former executives of National Century Financial Enterprises (NCFE) with conspiring to defraud investors. More Details |
| July 09, 2007 | The former chief financial officer for MCSi, a now-defunct computer sales company founded in Dayton, PLEADED GUILTY in United States District Court here today to charges that he participated in an elaborate scheme. More Details |
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| June 28, 2007 | Harrison Clark, age 34 of Springfield, Ohio PLED GUILTY in United States District Court here today to one count of possession of counterfeit securities. More Details |
| June 28, 2007 | A federal grand jury here has INDICTED Nicole Johnson, age 41, of Dayton, charging her with embezzling millions of dollars over a four-year period from the bank where she was an officer.. More Details |
| June 27, 2007 | A federal grand jury here has INDICTED auto parts store manager Geraldine A. Oldfield, age 49, of West Carrolton with fraud for selling satellite television piracy devices . More Details |
| June 26, 2007 | A United States District Court jury here today CONVICTED Thomas A. Henderson, age 55, of Columbus of killing two people who provided information that led to his conviction for robbing a bank in Macon, Georgia in 1981. More Details |
| June 13, 2007 | James L, Cook, age 49, of Whitehall PLEADED GUILTY in United States District Court here today to one count of bank fraud for depositing a counterfeit check into his checking account. More Details |
| June 12, 2007 | Judge Walter H. Rice SENTENCED Gary Black, age 52, of Beavercreek, Ohio, in United States District Court today to 210 months, or 17 years and 6 months in Federal prison for taking sexually explicit digital photographs of acquaintances. More Details |
| June 06, 2007 | Deborah C. Schram, age 57, of Bellbrook, Ohio, was SENTENCED to serve 12 months of incarceration followed by three years of supervised release for willfully failing to file a federal income tax return. More Details |
| June 06, 2007 | David Waser, age 58, of Newark, Ohio was SENTENCED in United States District Court here today to 120 months imprisonment followed by five years of supervised release. More Details |
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| May 22, 2007 | A federal grand jury here has INDICTED two women and a physician alleging that they conspired to illegally operate pain management clinics in and around Portsmouth, Ohio. More Details Indictment |
| May 11, 2007 | Christopher Joseph Hunter, age 34, of Dayton and Centerville, Ohio, pursuant to a judgment entered by the United States District Court in Dayton yesterday, has been SENTENCED to 35 years in prison. More Details |
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| April 13, 2007 | The owner of a Centerville store that sells and repairs sewing machines and related items PLED GUILTY in United States District Court here today to a four-count information charging him with crimes related to the employment of illegal aliens. More Details |
| April 13, 2007 | A husband and wife were SENTENCED for theft and false statements involving a 19 year scheme in which they received and cashed VA pension checks in the name of a deceased veteran. More Details |
| April 12, 2007 | Kenneth L. Wainstein, Assistant Attorney General for National Security, Gregory G. Lockhart, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio and Timothy P. Murphy, Special Agent-in-Charge, FBI Cincinnati Division, announced today that an Ohio man has been INDICTED and ARRESTED. More Details Indictment |
| April 05, 2007 | Special Agent-in-Charge John W. Brooks, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Office of Inspector General, Central Field Office of Investigations, announced that on August 31, 2006, Kenneth M. Gingell was ARRESTED on a warrant issued. More Details |
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| March 28, 2007 | A federal grand jury here has INDICTED James Wan Shing Kong, age 34, in a 73-count indictment alleging that he stole account information of approximately 1,000 customers. More Details |
| March 27, 2007 | A federal grand jury here today INDICTED nine people in a 46-count indictment for their roles in the operation of a multi-state dog-fighting ring. More Details "Operation Bite Back" Indictment |
| March 20, 2007 | A team of federal agents and sheriff’s deputies ARRESTED Dexter “Uncle” McCain, age 33, and Kurt “Fat Cat” Strode, age 22, both of Dayton, this morning on gun and drug charges. More Details |
| March 12, 2007 | Donald Witt, age 52, of Kettering, Ohio was SENTENCED in United States District Court here today to 121 months of imprisonment, followed by ten years of supervised release. More Details |
| March 01, 2007 | Maximino Garcia, president and co-owner of two temporary labor service companies, was SENTENCED in United States District Court here today to 15 months imprisonment followed by three years of supervised release. More Details |
| March 01, 2007 | John Harrison, age 47, of Xenia, has PLEADED GUILTY in United States District Court here to one count of Social Security Fraud for taking $116,135.10 in Social Security Disability payments even though he was working as an accountant. More Details |
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