From March 2018 to June 2020, Frederick Lewis of Fort Lauderdale, FL, scammed Orlando theme park, Universal Orlando, valued at well over $62,300. On January 6, 2021, Lewis pled guilty to two counts of producing and trafficking counterfeit devices used to defraud. Lewis used the stolen credit cards of 36…
Two South Florida residents have been arrested by a federal grand jury in connection with the suspected sex abuse of a 16-year-old teen. The minor suspect was a fugitive from a group home on December 6, 2020, when she encountered the male and female suspects, according to charges in the…
Federal prosecutors in South Florida have accused the head of an infamous Mexican drug gang and five others of allegedly smuggling over 500 kilograms (1,000+ pounds) of Mexican methamphetamine into the United States. Law enforcement officers intercepted over 1,100 pounds of crystal meth before it could enter the streets in what…
In Ocala, a 24-year-old Florida man has been charged with a federal hate crime. A federal grand jury in Orlando charged the man from Dunnellon with setting alight and destroying the Queen of Peace Catholic Church in Ocala, returning an accusation against him. In July of last year, the man…
Federal prosecutors in South Florida have charged a licensed veterinarian based in Aventura with obtaining and owning child pornography as well as animal crushing, a federal offense punishing acts involving animal cruelty. An IP address assigned to the veterinarian’s home in Miami regularly accessed a cloud-based file-sharing site storing photographs…
A pair of Florida men have earned themselves federal prison time after they were caught stealing more than ninety in sea turtle eggs. These eggs are protected by federal law as part of the Endangered Species Act (ESA). One of the men, per the criminal complaint, dropped the other off…
Earlier this month, a federal magistrate judge in Fort Lauderdale ordered a South Florida pediatrician to be held without bail awaiting conviction on a federal charge of alleged child pornography possession. In June of last year, the South Florida Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force obtained a CyberTip from the National Center…
A 33-year-old Palm Beach Gardens, Florida man has been charged with assault of an Assistant United States Attorney as well as conspiring to murder an Assistant United States Attorney by a federal grand jury in South Florida. Per court filings, in November of 2019, a jury found the man guilty…
Federal agents in Fort Lauderdale arrested a top associate of a suspected New York crime family on drug-related plot charges on Sunday. The man, who is related to a reputed mafia boss, was recently apprehended by Homeland Security Investigations agents and made an appearance in federal court. As he awaited…
A 59-year-old Boca Raton has been charged by South Florida federal prosecutors with making an interstate commerce contact where she made threats to kill Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents. According to the charges in the affidavit of the criminal case, the FBI was tipped off online last month by…