Nigerian woman arrested at Detroit Metropolitan Airport after swallowing 91 heroin pellets worth $125k
A suspected drug mule arrested Sunday at Detroit Metropolitan Airport says she was paid $6,000 to transport dozens of packages of heroin to the U.S. from her home country of Nigeria. In her stomach. And it wasn’t the first time. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers detained 32-year-old Sherifat Lamidi after she arrived on a Lufthansa Airlines flight from Frankfurt, [...]
Police arrest 2 in Houston cab driver killings
HOUSTON – Police arrested two suspects Friday they say shot and killed two Yellow Cab drivers in the Houston area. The suspects, 21-year-olds Chaz Blackshear and Danielle Hudson, confessed to their roles in the murders and police said evidence recovered verified their involvement. Police said Mohammed Elsayed, 32, was shot to death Tuesday in the 5400 block of Wheatley. His [...]
Ex-Probation officer convicted for exporting guns and bullets to Nigeria
Emenike Charles Nwankwoala, age 49, of Laurel, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to exporting arms without a license, exporting controlled goods without a license and willful delivery of a firearm to a common carrier without written notice, in connection with a scheme to export firearms and ammunition to Nigeria.
Nigerian Pharmacist is headed to prison
A pharmacist accused of bilking the government of millions in Medicaid dollars through his San Antonio business was given three concurrent 20-year sentences Friday and ordered to pay $2.2 million in restitution. In a rambling, sometimes incoherent speech to visiting state District Judge Pat Priest before his sentence was announced, Marcelleus Anunobi apologized for his actions and said he had [...]
NIGERIAN CITIZEN SENTENCED TO MORE THAN 12 YEARS IN FEDERAL PRISON FOR ROLE IN “ADVANCE FEE” FRAUD SCHEME
David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that OKPAKO MIKE DIAMREYAN, 31, a citizen of Nigeria who sometimes resided in Accra, Ghana, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Janet C. Hall in Bridgeport to 151 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for engaging in an Internet “advance fee” scam. [...]
