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Man Charged With Committing Robberies At Two Subway Stores In Fairfield County, Bank Branches
A Fairfield County man with a lengthy rap sheet has been charged in connection to robberies at Subway and several bank branches in Connecticut. Alvin Robertson, of Bridgeport, has been charged with three counts of bank robbery and two counts of interference with commerce by robbery, U.S. Attorney John Durham announced this week. Robertson has pleaded not guilty to the charges in New Haven federal court. According to the indictment, Robertson allegedly robbed a Subway store on Ethan Allen Highway on May 20 in Ridgefield, and then a second Subway store on Monroe Turnpike in Monroe on July 22.…
Fairfield, CT
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Ex-Precious Metals Trader Admits To Commodities Fraud
A precious metals trader from New York is facing time behind bars after admitting in district court in Connecticut to commodities fraud and a spoofing conspiracy for his role in a trading scheme to deceive the precious metals futures contracts markets. Brooklyn resident John Edmonds, a former precious metals trader at a federal bank, admitted that from 2009 through 2015, he conspired with other precious metals traders at the bank to manipulate the markets for gold, silver, platinum and palladium futures contracts traded on the New York Mercantile Exchange Edmonds stated that he and the othe…
Shelton, CT
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Man Admits To Enticing Connecticut Minor To Engage In Sex
A registered sex offender is facing life in prison after admitting to posing as a teenager in an effort to lure a minor to send sexually explicit images and visit him in Connecticut. Andrew Cunningham, formerly of Windsor, has pleaded guilty in New Haven to one count of enticement of a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity, U.S. Attorney John Durham, announced. In March 2017, Cunningham, 38, began talking with a 13-year-old girl on a website designed to pair strangers or text and video chats. Cunningham initially told his victim that he was 17, and later stated that he was 25 years old…
Fairfield, CT
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Dominican National Sentenced For Trafficking 'Black Tar' Heroin
A Dominican national is facing deportation following his prison stint for trafficking “black tar” heroin into the area. Hugo Tejada, 26, a citizen of the Dominican Republic who last lived in Waterbury, was sentenced to 57 months in prison after pleading guilty to possession with intent to distribute and distribution of, heroin. When his prison term is over, U.S. Attorney John Durham said Tejada faces immigration proceedings. Black tar heroin is dark, sticky like tar or hard like coal and the result of crude processing methods that leave behind impurities. The Drug Enforcement Administrati…
Fairfield, CT
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Man Who Abducted Son In 1987 Located, Arrested In Connecticut
A man who allegedly kidnapped his toddler in Canada, changed his name and came to America was arrested in Connecticut on Friday after more than three decades on the run. Allan Mann, Jr., who has dual Canadian and Ghanaian citizenship, allegedly abducted his 21-month-old, Jermaine Allan Mann, in Canada in 1987 during a court-ordered visit in Toronto. He then allegedly came to America, and acquired counterfeit birth certificates for the two of them. He also changed his name to Hailee Randolph DeSouza. It is alleged that Mann has been living in U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development …
Fairfield, CT
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Mexican National Sentenced To Prison For Third Illegal Reentry
A Mexican national with multiple criminal convictions is heading back to prison after being busted reentering the country for the third time after being deported from Connecticut. Jose Del Carmen Hernandez Hernandez, 43, was sentenced to 48 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for illegally reentering the country after being deported, and for violating the conditions of his supervised release from a prior federal conviction for illegally reentering the states. Between 1999 and 2009, Hernandez - whom U.S. Attorney John Durham noted never held legal status in the c…
Armonk, NY
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Doctor Admits To Her Role In $2.5M Medicaid Fraud Scheme To Patients In Fairfield County
A doctor in Fairfield County has admitted to her role in a pair of schemes to defraud Medicaid out of more than $2.5 million. Juliet Jacob, formerly of Bridgeport, pleaded guilty this week in Bridgeport District Court to one count of health care fraud stemming from a scheme that lasted several years. Beginning in January 2012, Jacob and another person operated Traditional Development and Training and It Takes A Promise in Bridgeport. Their businesses provided social and psychotherapy services to patients in Fairfield County. Jacob admitted to using those companies to bill Medicaid for psych…
Shelton, CT
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Shelton Attorney Pleads Guilty To Federal Charge In Child Sex Assault Case
SHELTON, Conn. — A 51-year-old lawyer from Shelton who was arrested last summer on charges of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old boy pleaded guilty Wednesday to a federal charge of enticing a minor to engage in sexual activity, prosecutors said. U.S. Attorney John Durham said Peter G. Kruzynski pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Alker Meyer in New Haven. According to court documents and statements made in court, Kruzynski sent text messages to the victim, who was under the age of 16, asking him to come to Kruzynski's home, where the lawyer then engaged in sexual activity wit…
