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Victims of the scam were contacted by phone or text and told that they had won a lottery but needed to prepay “taxes” and “fees." If victims didn’t have enough liquid assets to pay the taxes and fees, conspirators told them to obtain reverse mortgages and home equity loans.

Michael Fein, now 47, was indicted Aug. 20, 2020, on one count of bank fraud and one count of wire fraud. The indictment accuses Fein of routinely providing false information on loan applications to obtain financing and refinance loans on projects for the company he co-owned, T.E.H. Management and its affiliates.

Isaiah W. Douglas, 24, of Champaign, admitted conspiring with others to deposit checks that had been stolen from the mail.

SSM Health Care has agreed to pay $939,290, as well as $150,000 in attorneys’ fees and costs to the whistleblower who filed a qui tam suit. 
 

Anthony A. Moore engaged in sex acts with the victim in 2023 and 2024, beginning when she was 13 and he was 46.

Matthew Parker handed a note demanding money to a bank employee while holding one hand in the front pocket of his sweatshirt.

A convicted felon from St. Louis on Monday admitted selling nearly two pounds of methamphetamine to an undercover federal agent and being caught with cocaine, guns and more meth.

Sandor Spies pleaded guilty in March to one count of possession of child pornography. 

First responders administered Narcan to a 12-month-old suffering from an apparent fentanyl overdose.

Police officers and agents found 17 firearms, including two that were stolen, in Demond Spruill's home.

Rodrick Miller his a gun and lied to police after a toddler was accidentally shot.

Craig M. Perkins admitted that investigators found about 4.2 pounds of meth in a search of his home.