Speaker 1: Prime Alert. I'm Drew Nelson. Breaking crime news now. A
Speaker 1: former Bicoastal woman is convicted of being the mastermind behind
Speaker 1: an elaborate fraud, extortion, and money laundering scheme that wound
Speaker 1: up with a man embezzling more than four million dollars
Speaker 1: from his employer. Back in April of twenty eighteen, a
Speaker 1: federal grand jury indicted Gina Rita Russell. She's thirty five
Speaker 1: from New York and LA. She was the sixth person
Speaker 1: convicted in the scheme. Officials say Russell met a New
Speaker 1: York woman in October of twenty oh nine and convinced
Speaker 1: her that she had psychic powers extorting money by claiming
Speaker 1: bad things would happen without large sums of payment. The
Speaker 1: woman started giving Russell money from her lawful jobs, then
Speaker 1: lied to her father for more money for purported therapy,
Speaker 1: sleep studies, and university classes. After the woman's father stopped
Speaker 1: providing financial assistance, Russell convinced the woman to earn money
Speaker 1: through sex work, advertising sensual massage services on backpay dot com.
Speaker 1: The woman met a Maryland man through those ads, and
Speaker 1: he allegedly fell in love with her and proposed to her,
Speaker 1: even though he was already married with kids. The conspirators
Speaker 1: extorted money in gold bars from him by claiming the
Speaker 1: woman owed money to dangerous people. The man embezzled over
Speaker 1: four million dollars from his employer that happened between January
Speaker 1: and March of twenty seventeen. He converted the funds to
Speaker 1: cash and gold bars, delivering them to New York area
Speaker 1: drop off locations. Russell was sentenced to one hundred twenty
Speaker 1: five months in federal prison and ordered to pay over
Speaker 1: four point two million dollars restitution. From America's top ten
Speaker 1: most wanted, The FBI is in pursuit of Omar Alexander Cardinas,
Speaker 1: allegedly a gangbanger out of the Los Angeles area. He's
Speaker 1: been on the most wanted list for two years as
Speaker 1: of this week. Accused of killing a man in broad
Speaker 1: daylight August fifteenth of twenty nineteen outside a barber shop
Speaker 1: in the middle of a busy shopping center in Silmar, California.
Speaker 1: Police say Cardinas fired several shots from a handgun, striking
Speaker 1: the forty six year old victim, Jabali Dumas in the head.
Speaker 1: The victim died there while Cardinas drove away. Cardinas was
Speaker 1: charged in April of twenty twenty, but authorities say he
Speaker 1: might have fled to Mexico, and he's been charged with
Speaker 1: unlawful flight to avoid prosecution. If he's not in Mexico,
Speaker 1: the FBI says he may still be in southern California,
Speaker 1: possibly working in construction. Omar Alexander Cardinas is aged nineteen,
Speaker 1: five six or five seven, A white Hispanic between two
Speaker 1: hundred forty and three hundred pounds. He goes by the
Speaker 1: alias Dollar. He's got dark brown, wavy hair and brown eyes,
Speaker 1: and was last known to wear a beard. The FBI
Speaker 1: is offering a reward of up to two hundred fifty
Speaker 1: thousand dollars for information leading to the arrest of Omar
Speaker 1: Alexander Cardinas. More crime and justice news. After this, Dulce
Speaker 1: Maria Alavez, age five, vanished without a trace on the
Speaker 1: afternoon of Monday, September sixteenth, twenty nineteen. She was playing
Speaker 1: at a park behind Bridgeton High School in Bridgeton, New Jersey.
Speaker 1: Today she would be nine years old. Dulce was last
Speaker 1: seen wearing a yellow shirt with a koala on the front,
Speaker 1: black and white pants with butterflies and flowers on them.
Speaker 1: And white dress sandals. The FBI is offering a reward
Speaker 1: of five thousand dollars or more for information that leads
Speaker 1: to her whereabouts. If you have any information concerning this case,
Speaker 1: contact the FBI toll free at eight hundred call FBI,
Speaker 1: or submit a tip online tips dot FBI dot gov.
Speaker 1: An Indiana woman calls police to report her drug dealer
Speaker 1: for selling her a bad batch. Sarah Harris, h thirty four,
Speaker 1: called the cops telling them of an allegedly bad batch
Speaker 1: of methamphetamine, which left her feeling like she was having
Speaker 1: a heart attack. She called nine one one, not once,
Speaker 1: but twice to compare about the quality of the myth.
Speaker 1: Then she handed the drugs over the cops at her
Speaker 1: home for testing. Harris admitted to snorting a line of
Speaker 1: the stuff and felt quote something different unquote when it
Speaker 1: touched her skin and nostrils, and told cops I wanted
Speaker 1: to turn the person in who sold the bad match.
Speaker 1: Harris was charged with felony math possession, for which she
Speaker 1: faces a thirty month prison sentence. A nurse aid at
Speaker 1: an Indiana prison is herself behind bars after trying to
Speaker 1: smuggle drugs into the prison hidden inside some frozen lasagna.
Speaker 1: Forty six year old Regina Davis arrived at work like
Speaker 1: any other day and dropped her stuff on the conveyor
Speaker 1: belt to pass through the X ray machine. The Smoking
Speaker 1: Gun reports a guard noticed the lasagna looked kind of off.
Speaker 1: They investigated and found packages wrapped in electrical tape containing
Speaker 1: about three ounces of cocaine and an ounce and a
Speaker 1: half of pot inside the lasagna. During questioning, Davis said
Speaker 1: she got the food from a girlfriend the night before
Speaker 1: and was unaware it contained drugs, but photos of the
Speaker 1: drug packages in their tape wrappings were found on Davis's
Speaker 1: phone taken the day before. Davis later claimed she was
Speaker 1: threatened by unknown individuals. She was arrested on two felony
Speaker 1: narcotics trafficking charges and released on fifteen hundred dollars bond.
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