Category: Crime

We talked about Phillip M. Henderson about 18 months ago when he was arrested for defrauding the Department of Veterans’ Affairs. According to the Herald Dispatch, he was sentenced last week to two years in prison and he has to pay $789,472 in full restitution. He was a veteran from service in the early 80s.

Henderson served in the U.S. Army from 1983 to 1986. After he was discharged, Henderson filed multiple claims for benefits with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. In 1995, he was diagnosed by the VA with retinitis pigmentosa, an inherited and degenerative eye disease, which can lead to total blindness.

Henderson continued VA eye examinations through 2013, during which time VA medical staff tested to determine the extent of his vision loss. The tests relied significantly on Henderson’s accurate reporting of his vision levels.

Witnesses for the government, including four medical doctors, testified that Henderson falsely responded to the testing and misrepresented his vision loss significantly.

He maxed out his benefits, getting money for a car so someone could drive him around and swimming pool in which he could exercise.

According to NBC2, former vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General James Cartwright is due in court today to answer to charges that he lied to investigators in regards to some classified information he released;

Cartwright…falsely told investigators that he was not the source of classified information contained in a book by New York Times journalist David Sanger, according to charging documents unsealed by prosecutors.

Neither the book nor the classified subject is identified in court papers. But Sanger has written about a covert cyberattack on Iran’s nuclear facilities and the use of a computer virus called Stuxnet to temporarily disable centrifuges that the Iranians were using to enrich uranium.

It looks like he pleaded guilty in a deal with prosecutors;

Prosecutors say Cartwright was charged via criminal information, a document that is filed with a defendant’s consent and that signals that a plea agreement has been reached.

That’s funny because I heard recently in a press conference somewhere that prosecutors never pursue these types of cases because of the expense involved and the difficulty of proving stuff. I guess the defense attorney missed that press conference.

HMC Ret sends us a link to the news that John Beliveau, an Navy Criminal Investigative Services (NCIS) agent has been sentenced to twelve years in prison for tipping off Fat Leonard and his cohorts about investigations into their bribery and pay-off schemes.

In court filings, Beliveau’s attorney, Justine Carmichael, stated he ‘suffered from obsessive compulsive disorder since he was 6. He also has suffered from depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress and has had alcohol problems, Carmichael said.

“We were very disappointed that the government dismissed and belittled his mental health condition, calling it nonsense and an alphabet soup of disorders,” Carmichael said outside court.

In a letter to the court, Beliveau apologized and said he deserves and understands “the feeling of anger, vengeance and disgust from others in my former field.” He asked for forgiveness and offered himself as an example of what not to do in law enforcement.

In addition to his prison sentence, Beliveau was also ordered to pay $20 million in restitution.

I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for that twenty million in restitution.

Bobo sends us a link to the story of Derek Lamont Fowler in San Bernadino, California. Recently, a 12-year-old girl awoke to his presence in her bedroom in the middle of the night. The girl banged on her wall to get her parents’ attention in the next room. Her mother entered the room and found Fowler naked pawing at her daughter.

Fowler began punching the girl’s father, but her sisters came to Dad’s rescue with a Taser and pepper-spray. So he’s back behind bars, but if his history with the judicial system tells us anything, it won’t be for long;

Fowler has a long criminal history. In 2010, he was convicted of sexual battery and twice convicted for failing to register as a sex offender.

He most recently was convicted of indecent exposure but had been released early on felony probation.

“This is a glaring example of the failure of the system,” said Lt. Mike Madden of the San Bernardino Police Department. “We have an individual who had multiple prior arrests and convictions. He was a registered sex offender.”

Police agencies were growing frustrated with the state’s prison realignment laws and early release programs for non-violent offenses.

If I’m not mistaken, sex offenders usually aren’t ever rehabilitated and they are most likely of all criminals to re-offend.

From the LA Times;

Derek Lamont Fowler, 30, of Los Angeles was charged Tuesday in connection with burglary and lewd and lascivious acts with a child, according to San Bernardino County Superior Court records.

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He was convicted in August 2010 of sexual battery and sentenced to 40 days in jail. Fowler was ordered to serve three years’ probation. He was convicted twice of failing to register as a sex offender.

In June, Fowler pleaded no contest to an indecent exposure charge and was sentenced to 90 days in jail. He was ordered to serve three years’ probation.

Probation doesn’t seem to be working for him, the judge and the prosecutor need to come up with something a little more permanent.

A year ago August, PFC Karlyn Serane Ramirez’ lifeless body was found in her apartment riddled with bullets, along with her uninjured 5 month-old daughter near Fort Meade, Maryland. Her estranged husband, and baby-daddy, Army Master Sergeant Maliek Kearney was indicted by a grand jury along with his current girlfriend Dolores Delgado for the murder last week, according to the Patch. Prosecutors claim that Kearney was stationed at Fort Jackson at the time of Ramirez’ murder;

The couple were indicted Tuesday by a Maryland grand jury for interstate travel to commit domestic violence resulting in death; the indictment was unsealed after the defendants were arrested Thursday in San Antonio on Thursday.

Kearney had claimed that he was on duty at Ft. Jackson the night of the murder, but I guess prosecutors disproved that. After the murder, he moved to San Antonio to be near the murder victim’s family for the baby. Of course, his co-conspirator, Delgado was also from San Antonio, so that worked out for him.

The Anne Arundel County Police Department and the United States Army Criminal Investigation Command offered a $20,000 reward for information leading to the killer.

According to the New York Daily News, John Hernandez Felix, is no stranger to the the judicial system. He murdered two police officers in Palm Springs this weekend, Jose “Gil” Vega and Lesley Serebny, but he’s been charged with attempted murder recently;

John Hernandez Felix, 26, was charged in 2009 with attempted murder after he and an accomplice shot, but didn’t kill their target, according to court documents obtained by The Desert Sun.

He served four years in prison after pleading guilty to assault with a firearm and association with a criminal street gang.

Following his release from prison, Felix was arrested again in 2013 — on the doorstep of his parents’ home, where Saturday’s shootings took place. Court documents show that he was forcefully arrested after resisting cops’ orders.

According to the Desert Sun, Felix was wearing body armor and he had several magazines of ammunition on him when they caught up to him yesterday.

He’s eligible for the death penalty, but it’s unlikely the prosecutor will seek that punishment because prosecutors are auctioneers these days, seeking instead a deal with criminals rather than actual justice. He doesn’t seem to have any problems getting his hands on guns in tightly-regulated California.

Fox News tells about another career criminal in Denver, Colorado, Jesus Garcia-Chavez, who had kidnapped a woman. When she sought the aid of former paratrooper, Brian Geer, to escape her kidnapper, Garcia shot Geer, who is recovering from his wounds. Garcia had a long criminal record, too;

Fox 31 said Garcia-Chavez has a long criminal record and was wanted on two outstanding warrants.

Police said his criminal criminal history includes assault to a peace officer, assault, possession of a weapon by a previous offender, felony menacing, assault, eluding, resisting arrest, forgery, trespass and possession of a controlled substance.

He was illegally in the U.S. after previously being deported, according to the station.

Neither Felix nor Garcia are legal gun owners so they don’t much care about new gun laws.

The other day, in Atlanta, Georgia, Kenny Oglesby (pictured above) was pumping gas into his BMW SUV when he was approached by Brian Duffy (pictured below) and another criminal. Duffy tried to take Oglesby’s SUV, but the man resisted. They shot 44-year-old Oglesby dead. The pair tried to steal the truck, but they couldn’t get it started so they left it behind in their Toyota. Oglesby stumbled into the nearby convenience store and collapsed. he was dead when police arrived, leaving his son fatherless.

Police caught up to Duffy, but his partner is still free. According to the local police chief, 25-year-old Duffy was just recently paroled on an armed robbery beef.

Fulton County Police Chief Gary Stiles told Channel 2 Action News that Brian Duffy was already on probation for armed robbery when he allegedly shot and killed Kenneth Oglesby at a Chevron gas station on Thursday.

“Once again we have a young man who committed a heinous murder who should’ve been in prison,” Stiles told Channel 2.

Once again we see a violent criminal who has no problem getting a gun. We can be reasonably certain that he didn’t go through the NICS system. But all of the laws in the world won’t keep guns out of the hands of the Brian Duffys, but that won’t stop legislators from writing new laws.

Southern Maryland Online reports that 51-year-old Harold Thomas Martin III of Glen Burnie, Maryland has been charged by the feds with theft of government property and unauthorized removal and retention of classified materials by a government employee or contractor. He was a contractor working for Booz-Allen, the same guys who hired Ed Snowden.

According to the affidavit, on August 27, 2016, search warrants were executed at Martin’s residence in Glen Burnie, including two storage sheds, as well as upon his vehicle and person. During execution of the warrants, investigators located hard copy documents and digital information stored on various devices and removable digital media…The complaint alleges that among the classified documents found in the search were six classified documents obtained from sensitive intelligence and produced by a government agency in 2014.

According to the New York Times, Hamilton possessed thousands of pages of stolen documents;

The digital media contained “many terabytes of information,” according to the documents. They also discovered classified documents that had been posted online, including computer code, officials said…But more than a month later, the authorities cannot say with certainty whether Mr. Martin leaked the information, passed them on to a third party or whether he simply downloaded them.

He’s looking at ten years or so with a new bunkmate. Was it worth it?

Thanks to AW1Ed for the link.