A three-year investigation initiated by multiple law enforcement agencies has been paying off with the arrests of groups of individuals who have been accused of their involvement in insurance fraud schemes. These frauds were devised by the staging of automobile accidents. The investigation acquired its name in part because one…
Money laundering is a legal term describing a process of disguising the origins of proceeds obtained by illegal activity to appear to have been derived from a legitimate source. Some of the methods used to achieve these means can be extensive as is the case in this article. The fact…
An Orlando, Florida man who has been linked to Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the alleged mastermind of the recent Boston Marathon bombing was shot to death as he was preparing to sign a confession dealing with an unrelated crime that occurred in Waltham, Massachusetts 2 years ago. Ibragim Todashev, a 27 year…
As the headlines were dominated by the Boston Marathon bombing that claimed the lives of three and injured scores of participants and bystanders last month, a Fort Lauderdale cab driver is being held and charged with assisting his younger brother in the planning of a terrorist attack aimed at New…
Last month, police arrested Roman Thomas III, 26, of Miami for his involvement in a human trafficking investigation. At present, Thomas was on probation after he was incarcerated for four years when he was convicted of having sex with a minor. He was released from state prison prior to this…
Two men were charged in a tax refund ploy relating to a massive identity theft scheme this past October. On October 5, 2012, Charlton Escarmant, 29, of Miami and Arthy Icart, 25 of North Miami were charged in a five-count federal indictment aimed at their involvement in the scam. In…
A civil suit filed on behalf of Anthony Caravella, now 44 was thrown out by U.S. District Judge James Cohn against the city of Miramar and the Broward Sheriff’s Office, leaving four former Broward County sheriff’s department detectives as the sole residual defendants. He also discharged an allegation that the…
On May 1, 2010, a black male, dressed in royal blue surgical scrubs, and wearing a dark masklike nylon covering his face, entered the Bank of America located at 7215 W. Atlantic Boulevard in Delray Beach, Florida. Wielding a dark colored handgun he forced customers at gunpoint to lie on…
U.S. District Judge Daniel T.K. Hurley sentenced Fort Lauderdale man Van Lawson Williams, 49, to life in prison last week after being found guilty of charges of attempted sex trafficking of minors and sex trafficking in violation of Title 18, United States Code, (section14 1591(a)). The sentencing was announced by…
Small business owner, Pavlos “Paul” Kaimacliotis was sentenced on Monday to a federal prison term in excess of 10 years for his role in a kidnapping conspiracy that was infiltrated and thwarted by the FBI earlier this year. Kaimacliotis, 36, of Jupiter, cut a plea deal back in August to…