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For Immediate Release
April 18, 2008
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Washington D.C.
FBI National Press Office
(202) 324-3691
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FBI's
Top Ten News Stories for the Week Ending April 18, 2008
1.
Las Vegas: Man Charged with Unlawful Possession of Biological
Toxin after Ricin Discovered in Hotel Room
Roger
Von Bergendorff was arrested for Possession of Biological
Toxin-Ricin, Possession of Unregistered Firearms, and Possession
of Firearms not Identified by Serial Number, following his
release from a Las Vegas area hospital. Full
Story
2.
Washington Field: Contractor Sentenced for Conspiracy to
Defraud U.S. Military
Wallace
A. Ward, of Spring Lake, North Carolina, a former Kellogg,
Brown & Root (KBR) employee who worked in Afghanistan,
was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 26 months in prison
for conspiring to receive bribes, making false statements
and filing false claims. Full
Story
3.
Anchorage: Rapper Sentenced to Ten Years for Drug Trafficking.
Sean
Sullivan, a resident of Anchorage, Alaska, also known by
his rapper name, "Joker the Bailbondsman", was
sentenced to 10 years in prison on his convictions for two
counts of distribution of crack cocaine and one count of
attempted distribution of crack cocaine. Full
Story
4.
Kansas City: Two Missouri Men Indicted for Sabotaging War
Materials.
Charles
Dale Osborn, of Odessa, Missouri, and Timothy Duane Langevin,
of Independence, Missouri, were charged in a 10-count indictment
with participating in a conspiracy to steal specially fabricated
copper components, known in the munitions industry as bullet
cups, which are used to manufacture copper-jacketed 7.62
mm bullets for the military. Full
Story
5.
Newark: Former Mayor Sharpe James and Mistress Guilty of
Corruption and Mail Fraud.
Former
Newark mayor Sharpe James was convicted on all corruption
charges against him in connection with a scheme that enabled
his mistress, Tamika Riley, to fraudulently obtain steeply
discounted city-owned land and resell it for hundreds of
thousands of dollars in profits. Full
Story
6.
Knoxville: Physicist Guilty of Violating Arms Export Control
Act
Daniel
Max Sherman, a physicist, conspired to allow a Chinese national
access to sensitive U.S. Air Force plans to develop plasma
actuators for a munitions-type Unmanned Aerial Vehicle.
Full
Story
7.
Los Angeles: President of Cambodian Opposition Group Convicted
of Plotting to Overthrow Cambodian Government
Yasith
Chhun, the president of the Cambodian Freedom Fighters-a
Long Beach, California-based organization that was formed
to seize political control in the southeast Asian country-was
found guilty today of conspiring to kill in a foreign country.
Full
Story
8.
Los Angeles: IT Security Consultant Guilty of Wiretapping
and Identity Theft in First "Botnet" Conviction
John
Schiefer, an information security consultant from Los Angeles,
California, pled guilty to federal charges related to his
use of "botnets" (armies of compromised computers)
to steal the identities of victims throughout the country
by extracting information from their personal computers
and wiretapping their communications. Full
Story
9.
Tampa: Two Florida Men Face Terrorism Charges Related to
Explosives Located in Their Car in South Carolina
A
seven count superseding indictment was filed against Ahmed
Abdellatif Sherif Mohamed and Youssef Samir Megahed for
possessing explosive materials and a destructive device.
The
FBI later discovered an instructional video recording which
defendant Mohamed had distributed via the Internet on the
making and use of a remote controlled detonation and ignition
system. Full
Story
10.
Atlanta: "Crown Royal Bandit" Bagged
Bruce
Allen Hughes, of Blairsville, Georgia, was indicted by a
federal grand jury on charges of conspiracy to commit Hobbs
Act robbery, three counts of armed bank robbery, and four
counts of use and possession of a firearm during the commission
of a violent felony. Hughes used Crown Royal liquor bags
to stash the money during the robberies, which spanned 10
years. Full
Story
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