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True Crime Time For February 13, 2026 | Delphi Murders, Corruption, Child Abuse & Fraud
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Hello everybody, and welcome to this episode of True Crime. Time for Friday, February 13th, 2026. And I'm Woody Overton. Friday the 13th. And that. That's like the movies or something? The horror movies. Well, on this day in 2017, 2017, 14 year old Liberty German and 13 year old Abigail Williams were murdered in a wooded area in Delphi, Indiana. The pair of friends were near the Freedom Bridge and a man named Richard Allen said that he was in the area the day they were murdered, but denied any involvement in the crime. An unspent bullet discovered by the bodies was tied to Allen's Sig Sauer model P226 handgun. Allen was arrested in October of 2022 for the murders. And I know that's pretty famous case all of y' all have heard about, right? The Delphi murders, I think so. That being said, hashtag just for Bradley, hashtag just for AO, hashtag just for Ms. Barbara. And if you can go to GoFundMe and we're raising money for Ms. Barbara to give to the evidence room to reconstruct Haley's murder scene so that can be turned over to district attorney in Cobb county and hopefully we can get the murder indictment. I don't know what is that now, y'? All? Because I'm recording this just a little bit early. The. The Cindy and I'll be back together full time next week and then from then on, so. But I love and appreciate each and every one of y'. All. Thank you for liking and listening and sharing and all that good podcast stuff. So let's get started. It's time for Effed Up Professionals. You know, it seems we're doing more of these stories about judges lately than ever before. And again, my grandfather was a judge and my baby sister's a judge and my godmother is a judge. And you know, it's just a very prestigious thing in a court of law. Most people don't realize that Court of law is a very solemn, prestigious place that, you know, it's the decorum. You have to dress a certain way and there's certain rules, and, and, and to be a judge is, to me is. If I had been on the criminal side, if, if I'd have been a lawyer, I said I would have been a prosecutor, and then I would have been a judge, period, without a shadow of doubt. It's just a very prestigious thing. But then you got some judges who are assholes, and we're going to San Antonio and Bexar county. And Judge Rosie Speedlin Gonzalez has been suspended without pay one week after her indictment on multiple criminal charges. The suspension order issued Thursday morning from the State Commission on Judicial Conduct states that Spielen Gonzalez suspension will remain in effect until the charges are dismissed. She is acquitted of all charges or until the commission issues another order. So Speedland or the judge. Gonzalez was indicted last week by a grand jury on charges of unlawful restraint by judicial officer, which is a felony and a misdemeanor of official oppression. All right, you know, stupid Speedland Gonzalez's indictment came two weeks after the local KSAT Investigates revealed a December 2024 incident in which the judge ordered a defense attorney in her courtroom to be placed in handcuffs and seated in the jury box. Okay, now, you know, I have so many stories about judges in courtrooms, and y' all have heard some of them. But the. I guess there's a certain limit to what you can really do, right? But the. The judge is free on bond after making her initial court appearance last week, and she later heard cases in court this week. Right. County officials have not said who will preside over The County Court 13 moving forward. Her. Her court. Speedland Gonzalez did not return or respond to a text message seeking comment. And they're going to put a visiting judge, or we call it ad hoc in Louisiana judge over her court ring. But as of this time, none's been appointed yet. Well, you know, you, you, a judge can find somebody in contempt of court and have them placed in jail and what have you, but you can't restrain, you know, having an attorney placed in handcuffs and have them sit in the jury box. You got the law book in front of you, your honor. So it'd be interesting to see where that case goes. Right. All kinds of professions and good and bad in every profession. And some I have seen judges that just think they're God. And I've actually got an argument with one judge, he's no longer alive, over a simple traffic violation, which was My probable cause to stop this guy that had a meth lab, which was he. He passed a vehicle without using his blinker on a two lane road. And the judge is like, that's not a. At the end here. And he said, that's not a, that's not a law. That's a courtesy. I said, no, your honor, it's a law. He said, no, it's not as a courtesy. And I said, your honor, it is a law. Look it up. It's under the 32 codes are traffic codes for Louisiana. And we. I argued in open court and looked it up and guess what? I was right. So even judges can be fallible people. It is what it is. So it's time for effed up professionals. All right, I'm going to take you to where this guy lived and that's in New Roads, Louisiana. And my mama's daddy had the first camp on the, on Main street. On the, on what they call the town side of False River. That's from New Roads where the old miss. It's like 13 miles long. It's where the Mississippi river changed course over the years and just left this big oxbow lake, right? And now it's where all the multimillionaires live. I think. What's his name? That's married to. Oh God. Tim. Tim McGraw and Faith Hill have a place there. All these famous people have places there and stuff. But I was raised there and used to spend, you know, several weeks every summer there. And at noon they would set off the. The. It was an air raid alarm from like World War II. It'd go off every day at noon and I used to wake up before daylight and my mom would take me to the. What they called the West End Bakery. And we get the fresh French bread and come back and go fishing and stuff. But it's kind of back then, especially with small town Louisiana and the. It still has that touch, but it's. It's very big and very prominent now. And it has its own police force. New Roads does. And this guy, Quincy Lathers, he was a police officer for New Roads. Let me tell you what he did. Let me see if I could play it for you.
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A New Roads police officer was arrested for allegedly distributing narcotics after a controlled purchase operation. Investigators say Quincy Lathers sold 50 oxycodone pills to a confidential informant. They say that he was stopped shortly after the transaction. And agents found New Roads police equipment and the marked money in his vehicle. When police searched his home, they found $38,000 in cash and more drugs. Investigators say he admitted he got the pills from an uncle and only sold them a few times. He faces several drug charges.
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So, I mean, come on, man. The. This guy, who's a New Roads Police department officer, and. And again, he's arrested on charges of distribution of oxycodone after he went to. Into East Baton Rouge Parish and they had their narcotics agents. The confidential informant set him up to sell the dope to an undercover agent, and he did it. Y' all in. Now he's been booked into the East Baton Rouge Parish prison on charges of distribution of Schedule 2 Narcotics in possession of a firearm will control dangerous substance. So they said the Investigation began on January 29 when narcotics agents received information from a confidential informant about an East Baton Rouge Sheriff's office deputy distributing about East Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office deputy selling oxycodone and Xanax pills. An informant said they had purchased narcotics from Lathers while he was wearing a sheriff's office uniform. Well, on February 4th, the informant contacted Lathers about buying some more pills in under. Under the direction of the narcotics agents. Right. And the arrest records say that Lathers told the informant he had the pills available in. Arrange to meet him in East Baton Rouge Parish. And we used to do that all the time. You want to get them over on your parish line so you can. You don't have to get a warrant form or get another agency involved and. And book him into another parish and then transfer them to your parish. But narcotics agents, the. They wired up the informant, y', all, with the camera and the microphone, etc. And they gave them the money. And so when you do that, you count out the money to them and you write down the serial number on each bill. When they do the undercover purchase could, you know, in case they get away. But also when you stop them and you find that money on, they can't deny that they didn't receive it or whatever, right? Give defense attorney any information. But the informant purchased 50, 30 milligram oxycodone pills from Lathers while all the undercover cops were watching on surveillance. Right? And the. The CI gets out of the vehicle and Lather's drives off, and guess what? They pull him over several miles away from the location where he sold the pills, and then they searched his vehicle. And that's when they found the New Roads Police Department issued equipment, including body armor, a pistol belt, a badge, and a Glock 17 handgun. Agent said Lathers had the documented currency from the drug sale on this person. What I just told you about. So the same day the Livingston Parish Sheriff's office narcotics division executed search warrants at Lather's home on Lockhart Road in Denham Springs, my old stomping grounds. And deputies found $3,800 in cash, 5 milliliters of promethazine and a Ruger.22 caliber rifle. And I thank y'. All. That promethazine is that stuff they sell on street that, that call sh. Syrup that gets you high. And they said during a recorded interview. Investigators said Lathers told them the oxycodone pills came from someone he called uncle who left off of Suzanne Avenue. And he added that he said he picked up the pills to sell and planned to return the money to his source. Yeah, whatever. They said. Lathers explained he had only done this once or twice before. Hey motherfucker. You're a police officer. You're working in New Rose and living in Livingston Parish. Working in new roads, which is you got to drive all the way through East Baton Rouge parish and cross the bridge and then get to new roads. It's probably another 20 minutes from there. So he couldn't be a cop anywhere else. But anyway that. What an idiot. The. And the Livingston Parish authorities plan to issue an additional arrest warrant for ladders related to the stuff they found on the search warrant at his home. So bad cop and your about. Oh I've only done it once or twice bro, you had all your with you. You are going to prison and it's not going to be nice for you. And I don't feel bad a bad cop. And look, all this stuff that's going on with these federal agents and, and all that, if they are in the wrong them, right? If they're in the right, stand by them. But they're in the wrong and killing people or whatever it may be them. I mean this guy, he knew he was a police officer. He's been. I guarantee this is not the first time he's selling pills. Right? So whatever. I'm gonna be honest. When sleep's off, everything is off. And most of the stuff people recommend either doesn't work or leaves you feeling foggy the next morning. That's why I want to tell you about mood.com. mood is an online destination for federally legal hemp derived cannabis grown on small pesticide free family run farms right here in the US and yes, a lot of people don't realize this. It's completely legal to buy online and it ships discreetly straight to your door. 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It's time for family matters. Here we go again. Coming right back home to the great state of Louisiana. And I'mma play the clip first. They're drugs. So today a jury heard from a young teenager who says she witnessed firsthand the abuse of of a two year old, Nevaeh Allen. Her mother is on trial in connection to her death.
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Riley Kramer has been following this case for us. Riley. Yeah, guys. Today jurors heard from several witnesses, including a child who was in the room when prosecutors say Cardwell struck Nevaeh. Several witnesses took the stand on Thursday in Lina Cardwell's trial, including a teenager who says she saw what happened between Cardwell and the toddler. Now 14 years old. She was 9 at the time of the alleged abuse. Prosecutors asked her to demonstrate what she saw the day that Cardwell is accused of striking her two year old, Nevaeh Allen. She used a doll to show the jury what happened. She says Nevaeh was sitting down against the wall when she was hit. An FBI agent testified that investigators knew something was off the night the child was reported missing, questioning Cardwell's response to the situation.
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Cardwell adamantly denied hitting Nevaeh in the stomach. More witnesses will be called tomorrow. Guys, thank you for that update.
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All right. Yeah. We told you about this case before. Just tragic. And you better believe this is about to get the death penalty because when you put 12 jury members in there who are not true crime fans and don't hear this shit every day on true crime time for etc. And they got their own kids and grandkids and what have you and you get a 14 year old up there to demonstrate how the, her mother killed this baby. Oh, oh, the claws are coming out. She is. But let me tell you a little bit more about it. So 14 year old witness demonstrated on the doll what she said she saw during the interaction between lanaya Cardwell and two year old Nevaeh, who was killed back in 2021. Now Carwell is charged with second degree cruelty to juveniles and her charge was downgraded after her boyfriend Philip Gardner was convicted of the murder. Right. So she's still going to get a long time. Carwell is accused of striking Nevaeh in the stomach after Nevaeh ripped her contact. Okay, so, okay, you tear my contact, and I'm gonna punch you. Two years old, I'm gonna punch you in the stomach. The witness said, who was 9 years old at the time, testifies she saw Cardwell hit the child hard and said she thinks it was more than twice. She said she wasn't sure if it was a slap or a punch. And the witness told a similar story when she was interviewed the night that Nevaeh was reported missing. And that's one thing when you do it, when you. When you kill your baby and then you act like, oh, no, she's missing. And that when you just heard the mother in the clip, that was her begging, you know, for them to bring Nevaeh home. Yeah, bullshit. So the jury saw interview footage for Carwell and Gardner from the night that Nevaeh was reported missing. Body and car cameras showed their movements throughout the night. Special Agent David Borghetti with the FBI testified that they knew something wasn't adding up that night. He said they found proof of Gardner and Caldwell's car going through Slidell through a license plate reader technology. When they asked Carwell and Gardner why the car was there, Gardner had no answers. And Cardwell seemed confused. Like, oh, I remember he's thinking his brain. Me, I didn't even know they had such technology. Well, the next day, Baton Rouge police conducted another interview with Cardwell. And after questioning her lack of anger or frustration with the situation, like any mama bear should act, Carwell responded passionately. Detective said that was the angriest they had seen her get and asked her if it was because she knew what happened to her daughter. And she said, quotations, I have nothing to hide. Detectives question are saying, we know you didn't just pop your daughter, adding that the kids told the same story about their interaction. Cardwell told the detective that Nevaeh did not give her any complaints and she was fine after that. She denied that she hit her child in the stomach. The detective said the kids had confirmed that she did, in fact do that. So, two year old. Two year old defenseless baby. And how's a two year old terror contact anyway? You're going to do a hard time. Oh, God, here we go. All right, y', all, this one's going to be short, but definitely not sweet. And. And a big thing for anybody from Louisiana and Mississippi and a lot of Alabama well, it. All across the south, we, we used to go, you know, for a week every year to Gulf Shores, Alabama, which is the beach or Destin, Florida, you know, within an hour of each other, all the whitest, prettiest beaches you can get and nothing but high rise condos as far as you can see. And it's just kind of how we're raised, right, and, and everybody goes and the traffic's horrible and everything else, but the beaches are wonderful and it's a family or a deal. It's not like spring break. Well, when you go any vacation like that, you look at those million, a million people on all those beaches or whatever and you know, there's got to be some shitheads, right? And I'm going to tell you about one now. So they got a guy and we're going to Destin, Florida, y', all, which is one of the coolest, probably most expensive towns on the coast. And on the beach and it's, you know, great fishing and great beach and just a big lot, tons and tons of restaurants and everything else but. A man in Florida was sentenced to life in prison and designated a sexual predator after the sexual abuse of a child while on vacation. Justin Andrew Busby was sentenced Tuesday by judge after a jury found him guilty of sexual battery of a child under the age of 12. And Busby, he was over 18 years old at the time. Prosecutors said the abuse happened during a family vacation in destin between late 2022 in early 2023. The victim, who was just 10 years old at the time, when they got home to Mississippi, the victim told her parents what happened. And investigators said the Busby was a trusted family member. And while he minimized his actions, police said he didn't deny the allegations. Right, so what, what, the 10 year old came on to you Anyway? The, the case ended up involving multiple agencies, but was prosecuted by the state Attorney's office for Florida's First Judicial Circuit because that's where the, the sexual abuse happened was inside the state of Florida. And the in the Destin, I guess is the city. But it's, it's so sprawling. It happened in one of those condos. While this family's enjoying their best time. And you, Mr. Busby, you're gonna do hard time. I should call today's episode a hard time, right? The mama killed a little girl, the cop going to prison and now a baby raper. I say baby. 10 years old is still a baby to me. Yeah. Criminals, true criminals, never stop being criminals. It doesn't matter where you are. You can lock them up and they're still going to do criminal. And I'm going to bring you to Jackson, Mississippi, Where this guy pled guilty. Let me see if I can play this clip. Stupidity knows no bounds.
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State auditor Shad White announces that Ken Jarrell Thomas, an inmate here in Mississippi, has pleaded guilty to three charges. One count of identity theft, one count of wire fraud, and one one count of fraud. Now this comes after Thomas was allegedly applying for unemployment benefits while he was in prison. Authorities say he was able to do this by using the personal information of other prisoners and then using his mother's address to receive those payments. The Hines County Circuit Court sentenced him for to 15 years to serve and order him to pay more than $37,000 in restitution. Now, Thomas was originally being housed in the East Mississippi Correctional facility, serving a 25 year sentence for multiple convictions. Those charges are manslaughter, identity theft, and fraud in obtaining public assistance. He was originally slated to be released in June, on June 10, 2050.
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Okay, so you can send the prison for murder and doing exactly what he's doing on this fraud and everything else, and you're still going to be an even a certain percentage. Think about this. A lot of people go to prison. I'm not. You know, they call them colleges, right, for criminals. But, but you know, a lot of people go to prison and follow the rules and do their time, not let their time do them and get out. Certain amount of prisoners go to prison and all they're doing in there is figuring out how to commit more crimes. So hence the cup, the criminal college. Right? This dude, I have never heard of this in 30 years of dealing with these kind of cases. This dude is in prison for murder and some other stuff, and he figured out a way to file for unemployment. And the state of Mississippi granted it, granted it. Over $37,000. This cat got sent to his mama's house while he's locked up in prison. I mean, I, I guess he knew he was going to catch up with him one day, but those years until then, he got to buy a whole lot of ramen noodles and Zuzu's and different ship from the commissary. Right? Just unbelievable. But how do you get away with that? And, and let me read you a little bit about it. So the again, he pled guilty for filing unemployment benefits while incarcerated. And the Mississippi State auditor, Shad White announced Wednesday that Kendra El Thomas, the inmate, pled guilty to one count of identity theft, one count of fraud, and one count of wire fraud. Y', all. He pled guilty to one count because he didn't want to catch 50 counts. Right, which they probably had on him, but they're also embarrassed about it. The state auditor said Thomas, while serving time in prison, fraudulently applied for unemployment benefits using other prisoners personal information and his mother's address to receive payments. He said, my office found that during COVID Mississippi handed out over half a billion dollars in illegal unemployment compensation payments. We will continue to find as many of these fraudsters as possible and hold them accountable for their crimes. Well, 15 years for this and. Or he's ordered paid 37. $470.53 in restitution. That's nothing for a deed. Who's. Who's down already for murder and other charges. And, and the earliest he could be paroled is. Is in 2050. Come on man. What's another however many years for him? And he's a young dude, but he'll be my age or older when he gets out. Never criminal mind never ceases amazing. Ever, ever, ever. I mean just the shit you could come up with. And you know what? He got away with it. Until he didn't. All right, I'm gonna take you back about 57 years in. I told you've heard me say in the past, one of my FBI buddies I was talking to and I asked him, I said if there was one crime you could do one time and have the highest probability getting away with it, what would it be? He said hands down, I would do a bank robbery, period. Do one and be done right. Because so many different ways you could do it, you could plan it out smart. We have all these different exits on the different interstates because there's so many banks writing credit union and everything else. And he said, you know, it's just a matter of finding a bank that has the right amount of money. Because most average bank robberies in, in the United States of America average 3, $500, y'. All. That's what the average one and only get. Now you go back to one of my stories I told about the. I think it was a Hibernia bank back in the day in Albany and they got like now close to half a million. And that was because one of the local plants, they knew all the workers were coming on that Friday to cash their checks. But let me tell you about this cat. And he's dead now, and he's recently dead, but he's been positively identified as the perpetrator of a decades old Ohio bank robbery which bring one of America's most infamous cold cases to close after 52 years. And this according to the U.S. marshal. So they said on Friday. Now, on a summer day in 1969, a bank employee, Theodore John Conrad walked into society national bank in Cleveland. And the details of the robbery have never been pinned down. But it's known that Conrad left work that day with a bag of $215,000, y', all which it it today's rape would be over $2 million, right? I mean there's a lot of money. So as the robbery had taken place on a Friday, the missing funds weren't discovered until two days later, which gave or boy Conrad a two day head start on the police. Conrad, they said, was obsessed with bank robbery movies and reportedly bragged his friends that he would be able to easily take money from the bank he worked at. He also watched a Steve McQueen heist film and the Thomas Crown Affair more than six times. Getting fired up, maybe gleaning a little knowledge from the TV college. But despite this, investigators were unable to uncover any leads in the case. The U. S. Marshals along with numerous other agencies reportedly chase leads across the country with some investigators believing that Conrad had even escaped to Europe.
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Conrad's case also appeared on numerous crime based television shows including unsolved mysteries and America's most Wanted and. But the TV shows didn't even help y'. All. And decades passed by and the case eventually went cold. That was until they got a big break in the case. It was made this past week when a Cleveland based marshal revealed that Conrad had been living under an alias all along. And investigators were able to match Conrad to documents from another man named Thomas Randell. The documents filled out by Conrad in 1960 matched a filing from Randell in a bankruptcy court in 2014. Right. So lost the money, I guess. But using these documents along with further investigative information, they were able to positively identify Randell as the perpetrator, which finally solved the decades old case. Investigators then learned that Randall had been living a non conspicuous life in a Boston, Massachusetts suburbs since the 1970s and he became well known throughout the community. Prosecutors were never able to bring charges because they found out that Randell had died of lung cancer this past mage at the ripe old age of 71. He had allegedly admitted to his crime on his deathbed. So investigators noted that he had ironically moved to a location in Boston not far from where the Thomas Crown Affair had been a film. The movie had been filmed. A U.S. marshal for the Northern Ohio District, Peter J. Elliott, he helped crack the case. And he said that the personal connection that he had to the bank robbery just kind of trippy. His personal connection to the bank robbery was that his father had actually worked on the same case all the years before. He said my father never stopped searching for Conrad and always wanted closure up until his death in 2020. So we were able to match some of the documents that my father uncovered from Conrad's college days in the 1960s with documents from Randell that led to his identification. He said, I hope my father is wrestling a little easier today. Knowing his investigation and his United States Marshal Service brought closure to this decades old mystery. And y', all, this is all on Newsweek. That's a pretty cool story, right? I mean, at least it solved. It's cool. It's cool for the cops. Family doesn't do anything to get the money back or whatever. But evidently then back in 2014 he filed for bankruptcy. So who knows? But prominent figure in Boston until he wasn't. Now he's known for the thieving mfer that he was. It's time for effed up. Professionals. Could jump right back out to Boston. But this, this story covers many different states. In Boston, three individuals have been arrested and another individual has been charged with an alleged fraud scheme that used stolen identities of more than 100 individuals to attain $440,000 in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program SNAP Y', all food stamps. Benefits from the states of Massachusetts and Rhode Island. The defenses defendants are also said to have fraudulently obtained over $700,000 in pandemic unemployment assistance benefits from Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Washington and Nevada. Now, according to the Massachusetts Department of Justice, the following defendants have been charged by a criminal complaint with conspiracy to use, transfer, acquire and possess SNAP benefits and will appear in federal court in Worcester this afternoon. Now, Joel Vicasio Fernandez, who's 42 from Fitchburg, Massachusetts. Roman Vasquez Fernandez, who's 32, who's a Venezuelan national living in Laminister, Massachusetts. And Corbaldo Abbasinian, who's a Venezuelan national living in Low Minister, Massachusetts. Well they're about to be living in federal prison. But Raul Fernandez Vasco is 37, has been charged with conspiracy to commit SNAP fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, SNAP benefit fraud, aiding and abetting money laundering, and he's got a federal court date. And according to the charge of documents, the defendants and the co conspirators purchase and used the stolen personal information of over 100 real people from multiple states to attain the SNAP benefits. The stolen identities were used to create 24 households and snap applications. And all these applications submitted in the names like I told you, over 100 people were listed as living in two single family apartments in Providence, Rhode Island. Now, systems and checks and balances and stuff. Come on man, you would think in the system in Rhode island If you have 100 people that are getting paid SNAP benefits that live in two separate apartments, that's 50 people per apartment. There's got to be some kind of fucking systems of checks and balances that these assholes can't get away with it. But we'll continue with the story. A number of the stolen identities from Connecticut, Florida, Kentucky, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Puerto Rico were used to attain SNAP benefits in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. And it's further alleged that Raul Fernandez Vizisco and Joel Vasisco Fernandez used our own personal information to create fraudulent SNAP benefit accounts that were found commingled among the victims identities in the applications. And in support of the fraudulently submitted SNAP applications, defendants and the co conspirators provided images of counterfeit passports and passport cards with metadata that indicated the images were taken inside or within the immediate vicinity of the El Primo restaurant, which is a restaurant operated by guess who? Raul Fernandez Vasisco in the Minister, Massachusetts dumbasses. The defendants and their co conspirators use the fraudulent SNAP benefit cards to purchase large quantities, quantities of expensive bulk food items such as multiple pounds of chicken, beef and pork at various local wholesalers and food markets. And they guess what they did with it? They sold, they stocked their restaurant, the El Primo restaurant, free of charge or no, at our expense, the taxpayer's expense. And they got it. They, they stocked the restaurant with their supplies obtained for free from the SNAP benefits and they prepared and sold the menu items at El Primo restaurant at a complete profit, later wiring the fraud proceeds, among other places to individuals living in Venezuela and the Dominican Republic. Wow, y'. All. This is so much more. According to the charge documents, between April 2020 and December 2021, the defendants and the co conspirators further enriched themselves by over $700,000 again by submitting project applications and supporting documents in Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Nevada. And that guess what? They weren't too smart or they didn't think they were going to get caught for being here illegally. Raul Fernandez. And they, they got the benefits issued in their own names. I'm saying all the dumbass names again. And they also used at least 29 different identities in that Covid. All of which listed because this is how smart they are or how unafraid they were of getting called. Everything they submitted, everything they submitted had the address of the El Primo restaurant as a residential address. Again, I get it. It was Covid. People needed the money. Where's the system of checks and balances? There were none. So the bank records attained during the investigation detail approximately $2,276,000 and fraudulent. Basically Covid benefits which were deposited into bank accounts held in the names of El Primo restaurant. Raul Fernandes of Visisco and again Joel, same same assholes. And you know they. And they had more benefits that were issued to prepaid cards in the same identities. I mean, can you be a little bit more imaginative? At least make up a fake address? Well, the Fed swoop in and during the searches of the raw Fernandez Vedisco's residence and the El Primo restaurant fraudulently obtain Massachusetts and Rhode Island EBD or whatever cards, fraudulent documents bearing Providence address involved in a scheme. Printed ledgers and handwritten lists of more than 100 identities and snap related mailings were recovered. So this just goes on and on and on and on. Now will be assholes. Probably the only sad thing of the whole story is I bet the El Primo restaurant served up some fire ass Hispanic food right in because they're from Venezuela. Maybe some Puerto Rican shit. I don't know the but El primo. I bet you it's not in existence anymore. And the and I bet these they have some good cheap ass Mexican food, right? No mas, no mas. Goodbye. Yeah, they think about all the people that money could have went to who actually needed it. But that's, that's the stupidity of it all and the sadness of it all. But anyway, I love and appreciate each and every one of y'. All. We will be back in full force next week in Patreon. Convicts love you and appreciate you. Thank you so much all lifers. We love and appreciate you. And I'm Woody Overton, you host a true crime. Time for this Friday the 13th, February of 2026. And I'll holler at you later. Peace.
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