Acting United States Attorney Jan W. Sharp announced the federal Grand Jury for the District of Nebraska has returned 20 unsealed Indictments charging 21 defendants. Indictments are charging documents that contain one or more individual counts that are merely accusations, and every defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
* Andrew Isaac Abrams, age 41, of Tucson, Arizona, is charged in a four-count Indictment. Counts one through four charge the defendant with transmission of an interstate communication containing a threat to injure the person of another on or about April 23, 2021. The maximum possible penalty if convicted is 5 years’ imprisonment, $250,000 fine, a three-year term of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment for each count.
* Alberto Inocente Argueta Cordova, age 29, is charged with illegal reentry after deportation on or about April 19, 2021. The maximum possible penalty if convicted is 2 years’ imprisonment, a $250,000 fine, a one-year term of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment.
* Bobby Joe Baer, is charged in a two-count Indictment. Count I charges Baer with possession with intent to distribute 5 grams or more of methamphetamine (actual) on or about Jan. 13, 2021. The maximum possible penalty if convicted is 40 years’ imprisonment, $5,000,000 fine, a four-year term of supervised release, $100 special assessment. Count II charges the defendant with use and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime on or about Jan. 13, 2021. The maximum possible penalty if convicted is life imprisonment, $250,000 fine, a five-year term of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment.
* Tyler Caudill, age 19, of Phillips, Nebraska, is charged with unlawful user in possession of a firearm on or about May 4, 2021. The maximum possible penalty if convicted is 10 years’ imprisonment, $250,000 fine, a three-year term of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment.
* Elmer Moises De La Rosa-Juares, age 42, is charged with illegal reentry after deportation on or about September 4, 2020. The maximum possible penalty if convicted is 2 years’ imprisonment, a $250,000 fine, a one-year term of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment.
* Matias Garcia-Paiz, age 49, is charged in a six-count Indictment. Count I charges Garcia-Paiz with aggravated identity theft on or about June 5, 2020. The maximum possible penalty if convicted is 2 years’ consecutive imprisonment, $250,000 fine, a one-year term of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment. Count II charges the defendant with bank fraud, on or about June 5, 2020. The maximum possible penalty if convicted is 30 years’ imprisonment, $1,000,000 fine, a five-year term of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment. Count III charges Garcia-Paiz with false claim of citizenship on or about Sept. 2, 2020. The maximum possible penalty if convicted is 3 years’ imprisonment, $250,000 fine, a one-year term of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment. Count IV charges the defendant with false representation of a social security number with intent to deceive on or about Sept. 2, 2020. The maximum possible penalty if convicted is 5 years’ imprisonment, $250,000 fine, a three-year term of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment. Count V charges Garcia-Paiz with use of immigration document not lawfully issued on or about Sept. 2, 2020. The maximum possible penalty if convicted is 5 years’ imprisonment, $250,000 fine, a three-year term of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment. Count VI charges the defendant with reentry of a removed alien on or about April 30, 2021. The maximum possible penalty if convicted is 2 years’ imprisonment, $250,000 fine, a one-year term of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment.
* Leslie J. Graber, age 33, is charged in a two-count Indictment. Count I charges Graber with felon in possession of a firearm on or about Aug. 13, 2020. The maximum possible penalty if convicted is 10 years’ imprisonment, $250,000 fine, a three-year term of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment. Count II charges the defendant with possession of a stolen firearm on or about Aug. 13, 2020. The maximum possible penalty if convicted is 10 years’ imprisonment, $250,000 fine, a three-year term of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment.
* Amber Lewis, age 38, of Pawnee City, Nebraska, is charged in a three-count Indictment. Count I charges Lewis with forgery, counterfeiting in relation to money orders beginning on or about June 5, 2020, and June 17, 2020. The maximum possible penalty if convicted is 5 years’ imprisonment, $250,000 fine, a three-year term of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment for each count. Count II charges the defendant with forgery, counterfeiting in relation to money orders beginning on or about June 5, 2020, and June 24, 2020. The maximum possible penalty if convicted is 5 years’ imprisonment, $250,000 fine, a three-year term of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment for each count. Count III charges the defendant with forgery, counterfeiting in relation to money orders beginning on or about June 29, 2020, The maximum possible penalty if convicted is 5 years’ imprisonment, $250,000 fine, a three-year term of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment for each count.
* Antonio Lopez Paiz, a/k/a Eduardo Garcia Zayas, a/k/a Eduardo Jose Garcia Zayas a/k/a Anthony Alexander Lopez age 33, is charged with illegal reentry after deportation on or about April 28, 2021. The maximum possible penalty if convicted is 2 years’ imprisonment, a $250,000 fine, a one-year term of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment.
* Juan Carlos Lopez-Balbuena, age 42, is charged with illegal reentry after deportation on or about September 4, 2020. The maximum possible penalty if convicted is 2 years’ imprisonment, a $250,000 fine, a one-year term of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment.
* Paw Moo, age 28, of Omaha, is charged with trafficking in counterfeit goods or services beginning on or about October, 2020, and continuing to on or about March 23, 2021. The maximum possible penalty if convicted is 10 years’ imprisonment, $2,000,000 fine, a three-year term of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment for each count. There is also an allegation to forfeit United States currency seized on or about Feb. 23, 2021.
* Brandon L. Parmentier, age 31, is charged in a two-count Indictment. Count I charges Parmentier with possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine (actual) and 50 grams or more of methamphetamine (mixture) on or about Sept. 11, 2020. The maximum possible penalty if convicted is life imprisonment, $10,000,000 fine, a five-year term of supervised release, $100 special assessment. Count II charges the defendant with possession of a firearm by a felon on or about April 2, 2021. The maximum possible penalty if convicted is 10 years’ imprisonment, $250,000 fine, a three-year term of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment.
* Arash Patrick Rasti, age 36, and Rodolfo Perez, age 24, are charged in a three-count Indictment. Count I charges the Rasti and Perez with conspiracy to distribute to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine (actual) on or about Feb. 17, 2021. The maximum possible penalty if convicted is life imprisonment, $10,000,000 fine, a five-year term of supervised release, $100 special assessment. Count II charges the defendants with possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine (actual) on or about Feb. 17, 2021. The maximum possible penalty if convicted is life imprisonment, $10,000,000 fine, a five-year term of supervised release, $100 special assessment. Count III charges the defendants with possession of a firearm during a drug trafficking crime on or about Feb. 17, 2021. The maximum possible penalty if convicted is life imprisonment, $250,000 fine, a five-year term of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment.
* Eric C. Saul, age 37, of Omaha, is charged with possession of a ammunition by prohibited person on or about May 3, 2021. The maximum possible penalty if convicted is 10 years’ imprisonment, $250,000 fine, a three-year term of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment.
* Juan Manuel Serrano-Romo, age 42, is charged with illegal reentry after deportation on or about May 6, 2021. The maximum possible penalty if convicted is 2 years’ imprisonment, a $250,000 fine, a one-year term of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment.
* Lawrence A. Smith, age 27, is charged with failure to register as a sex offender beginning on or about August, 2020 continuing to on or about May 19, 2021. The maximum possible penalty if convicted is 10 years’ imprisonment, $250,000 fine, life term of supervised release, a $100 special assessment, and $5,000 additional special assessment.
* Prince L. Spellman, age 37, of Omaha, is charged in a three-count Indictment. Count I charges Spellman with possession with intent to distribute cocaine, PCP and fentanyl on or about March 9, 2021. The maximum possible penalty if convicted is 20 years’ imprisonment, $1,000,000 fine, a three-year term of supervised release, $100 special assessment. Count II charges the defendant with possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime on or about March 9, 2021. The maximum possible penalty if convicted is life imprisonment, $250,000 fine, a five-year term of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment. Count III charges the defendant with felon in possession of a firearm on or about March 9, 2021. The maximum possible penalty if convicted is 10 years’ imprisonment, $250,000 fine, a three-year term of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment.
* Robert Sullivan, age 44, of Omaha, is charged in a two-count Indictment. Count I charges Sullivan with possession with intent to distribute 5 grams or more of methamphetamine (actual) on or about Jan. 26, 2021. The maximum possible penalty if convicted is 40 years’ imprisonment, $5,000,000 fine, a four-year term of supervised release, $100 special assessment. Count II charges the defendant with felon in possession of a firearm on or about Jan. 26, 2021. The maximum possible penalty if convicted is 10 years’ imprisonment, $250,000 fine, a three-year term of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment.
* David Wesley Swanson, age 36, of Wahoo, Nebraska, is charged with possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine (actual) on or about July 7, 2020. The maximum possible penalty if convicted is life imprisonment, $20,000,000 fine, an eight-year term of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment.
* Shaquille A. Thornhill, age 27, of Brooklyn, New York, is charged with coercion and enticement of a minor beginning on or about April 15, 2021 through on or about May 11, 2021. The maximum possible penalty if convicted is life imprisonment, $250,000 fine, a life term of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment.
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys
