The Park Forest Police Station. (Photo: Gary Kopycinski) Park Forest, IL–(ENEWSPF)–Editor’s Note: We continue our reporting on news from police reports. Besides covering the many stories from around Park Forest that otherwise might go unnoticed, we want to bring more complete coverage of police reports than is reported by other[Read More…]
Law and Order
Indictment Charges Three People with Running $54 Million ‘Green Energy’ Ponzi Scheme
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—September 3, 2015. An indictment was unsealed today charging three people in an investment scheme, involving a Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania-based company, that defrauded more than 300 investors from around the country. Troy Wragg, 34, a former resident of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Amanda Knorr, 32, of Hellertown, Pennsylvania, and Wayde McKelvy,[Read More…]
Schroder & Co. Bank AG Reaches Resolution under Justice Department’s Swiss Bank Program and Agrees to Pay $10.3 Million Penalty
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—September 3, 2015. The Department of Justice announced today that Schroder & Co. Bank AG has reached a resolution under the department’s Swiss Bank Program. “As today’s agreement reflects, Swiss banks continue to lift the veil of secrecy surrounding bank accounts opened and maintained for U.S. individuals in the[Read More…]
Eight Indicted in Fraud Case That Alleges $50 Million in Bogus Claims for Student Substance Abuse Counseling
Six Linked to Long Beach Treatment Program Taken into Custody Today Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—September 2, 2015. Eight people have been indicted for allegedly participating in a scheme that submitted more than $50 million in fraudulent bills to a California state program for alcohol and drug treatment services for high school and[Read More…]
Husband and Wife Charged with Sex Trafficking of Minor
Springfied, IL-(ENEWSPF)- Marcus Dewayne Thompson, 28, and his wife Robin Thompson, 24, from Park Hills, Missouri, were charged by a criminal complaint, unsealed on August 24, 2015, in federal court in East St. Louis, Illinois, for one count of sex trafficking of a minor by force, fraud, or coercion, and[Read More…]
Chicago Man Admits Heroin Distributions In Marion County
Springfied, IL-(ENEWSPF)- Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that Marquise E. Ross, 24, of Chicago, Illinois, pled guilty September 1 to charges returned against him in an indictment by a Federal Grand Jury in November 2014. Specifically, Ross pled guilty to Conspiracy[Read More…]
Jared Fogle Co-Defendant Formally Charged with Child Exploitation and Distribution of Child Pornography
Russell Taylor files plea agreement in U.S. District Court in Indiana Indianapolis, IN-(ENEWSPF)- United States Attorney Josh J. Minkler announced that Russell C. Taylor, 43, Indianapolis, was charged by criminal information today with 12 counts of child exploitation involving 12 minor children in Indiana. He was also charged with one[Read More…]
Attorney General Madigan: Illinois Dept. of Corrections Worker Arrested on Charges of Fraud, Official Misconduct
Chicago —(ENEWSPF)—August 28, 2015. Attorney General Lisa Madigan today announced that an Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) parole agent was arrested on charges of fraud and official misconduct for allegedly falsifying parolee case management reports. Stanley Orndorff, 47, of Danville, was charged today in Champaign County Circuit Court on one[Read More…]
Men Sentenced for Conspiracy to Use Weapons of Mass Destruction
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 28, 2015. Brian Cannon, 37, Terry Peace, 47, and Cory Williamson, 29, have been sentenced for conspiring to use weapons of mass destruction in attacks against federal government agencies. The defendants planned to attack critical infrastructure while motivating militia groups in other states to rise up and join[Read More…]
Kenyan National Sentenced to 15 Years for Conspiring to Provide Material Support to Foreign Terrorist Organizations
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 28, 2015. Mohamed Hussain Said, 27, a citizen and resident of Nairobi, Kenya, was sentenced to 15 years in prison by U.S. District Judge Ursula Ungaro of the Southern District of Florida for conspiring to provide material support to three separately designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations, al-Qa’ida, al-Qa’ida in[Read More…]
