does anybody have access to federal criminal court records?

[Gil Bang 26240]

I know a guy that  was arrested a couple of years ago, and I'm curious as to what's going on with his case.  

Dude was a Homeland Security agent and is accused of skimming a whole shitload of seized drug money.  

Feel a bit weird posting his name, but I'll do it anyway. First name Tyrone

 

Last name (*'s included to try to thwart google)

D * U * R * E * N

 

Google searches only come up with the stories of his arrest. 

[RDCanecutter 26893]

 

 

Philadelphia Fire Commissioner Adam Thiel speaks at a news conference on Tuesday, March 27, 2018.

Philadelphia Fire Department

March 28 -- As flames devoured the North Philadelphia rowhouse beneath her last week, Alita Johnson cowered in a small third-floor bathroom with her father and 3-year-old son, pleading with 911 to send someone to their rescue.

Firefighters responded. They extinguished the blaze and rescued other tenants. But when they cleared the scene and packed up to leave, Johnson and her family remained behind—missed and overlooked.

It wasn’t until 72 hours later that their bodies were discovered—and only then after relatives say they made repeated calls to officials to report that the Johnsons still were missing.

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As those family members continued to demand answers Tuesday, Fire Commissioner Adam Thiel offered a heartfelt apology and said that his department would continue to investigate what went wrong.

“While we can never share the family’s pain, this is extremely upsetting to us,” he said at a news conference at Fire Department headquarters at 240 Spring Garden St. “Every fire death is tragic. … The circumstances here make this even worse.”

In an update on the ongoing probe, Thiel confirmed for the first time that investigators believe it was Alita Johnson who first reported the blaze at what city officials have described as an illegal boarding house at 1855 N. 21st St., and that she had remained on the phone with dispatchers for nearly 10 minutes before her death.

He said investigators still were sorting out how firefighters could have missed that Johnson, her 64-year-old father, Horace, and her son, Hashim, had not been rescued or accounted for before they left the scene early last Wednesday.

But even as Thiel and other city officials expressed their condolences and confusion on Tuesday, they also sought to blame the property’s owner for unsafe conditions that may have contributed to last week’s tragedy.

Brian Abernathy, first deputy managing director, told reporters that he planned to meet with the District Attorney’s Office in the coming days to discuss potential criminal charges against the building’s management company, Granite Hill Properties, and the business’ owner, Tyrone Duren.

Although investigators believe that as many as 10 people resided in the house at the time, the building did not have an active rental license and was not zoned to be a multifamily dwelling.

In fact, said David Perri, commissioner of the Department of Licenses and Inspections, his office previously had sued Granite Hill for running an unlicensed boarding house in 2014—a case that was resolved with Duren’s pledging he would vacate the building. Sometime between then and last week, Granite Hill began renting the property again.

“Boarding houses, especially those that are not run very well, provide a heightened safety concern because [tenants] add microwaves, they add hot plates and things that can overload the electrical circuits,” Perri said.

Neither Duren, a 47-year-old former agent with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, nor his lawyer, John Kirby, returned calls for comment Tuesday.

However, court records show that Granite Hill and its owner have a lengthy history of run-ins with the law.

Granite Hill has been sued more than 20 times for various code violations or unpaid tax bills on the more than 30 properties it manages in largely low-income neighborhoods across the city.

Duren himself faces federal charges in California, accused of stealing money from drug dealers while working for DHS—money that prosecutors say he laundered through his Philadelphia property holdings and used to purchase some of the properties Granite Hill continues to rent to tenants in the city, including the one in which the Johnson family was living.

Perri said Tuesday that his office had launched a full inspection of all properties owned by Duren and Granite Hill in response to the fire.

The cause of the blaze, which began on the second floor, remains under investigation.

Thiel described a chaotic scene when firefighters arrived at the property. Two residents managed to escape on their own. The body of a third tenant, who apparently died in a jump from a window, was found outside. His name has not been released.

As responders ascended a staircase to the third floor, where the bodies of the Johnson family later would be found, the floor collapsed beneath them, sending firefighters plummeting to the ground floor and causing injuries that sent two to the hospital.

Fire officials later were able to drag a ladder inside the building to search as much of the third floor as they could. But at the time, they found no one in the areas to which they could reach, Thiel said.

When investigators asked one of the tenants who had escaped whether anyone was still in the building, Thiel said, they were told no.

Quoting one of the occupants who made it outside, the fire commissioner said that his responders were told: “The last time I [saw] those people was a month ago. They moved out, and I haven’t seen those people in a little while.”

But all that came as little comfort Tuesday to the Johnsons’ relatives, who are left to plan their funerals, with services scheduled for Friday at Pathway Evangelistic Church in Frankford.

Family members have said that it took them nearly three days to persuade the Fire Department to return to the scene to search for their missing relatives.

Thiel said Tuesday that his department’s records revealed no trace of such a phone call until the one Friday that prompted investigators to return to the site and discover the Johnsons’ bodies.

Still, as he met with the family Tuesday, he said, he offered his condolences and shared in their heartbreak and frustration.

“Despite giving it our best, we couldn’t save these folks,” he told reporters afterward. “We know we can’t save everybody, but I promise you, we tried.”

Edited April 26, 2018 by RDCanecutter

[Gil Bang 26240]

That's him.  "Living large in a $700,000 house" is bullshit.  I sold him the house.  It's not worth that much. Never has been. 

[TwiceHorn 32079]

What you need is access to PACER.  You can sign up for it yourself.https://www.pacer.gov  The service itself is free, but downloading documents will cost you a little something per page, just enough that a shaghole probably won't download anything for you.

 

News reports say he was indicted and freed on bail along with his wife (that is somewhat unusual, as the federal system tends to frown on bail, especially for anyone charged with a "serious" crime that has any imaginable tendency to flee, like a border patrol agent).  This was in late '16/early '17.

 

There probably isn't a lot to see on the criminal docket, any juicy stuff is probably under seal and the rest is going to be fairly routine.  It is fairly possible that he is "cooperating" and a plea deal is pending his cooperation, which would draw it out that long, but there could be a multitude of other reasons it's drawn out that long, which isn't that long in the grand scheme of things.  Or, it could be like Freamon, McNulty, Levy & Co. at the end of The Wire: shit got embarrassing for the gubmint so they shut it down.

Edited April 27, 2018 by TwiceHorn

[Lazarus Bocanegra 312]

Pending Counts
18:1956(h); 18:981(a)(1)(B),(C); 18:982(a); 28:2461 - Conspiracy to Commit Money Laundering; Criminal Forfeiture (1)
18:1956(h); 18:981(a)(1)(B),(C), 982(a), 28:2461 - Conspiracy to Commit Money Laundering; Criminal Forfeiture (1s)
18:1957(a); 18:981(a)(1)(B),(C); 18:982(a); 28:2461 Transactional Money Laundering; Criminal Forfeiture (2-17)
18:1957(a); 18:981(a)(1)(B),(C), 982(a), 28:2461 - Transactional Money Laundering; Criminal Forfeiture (2s-23s)
18:1956(a)(2)(B)(i); 18:981(a)(1)(B),(C); 18:982(a); 28:2461 - International Money Laundering; Criminal Forfeiture (18)
31:5324(a)(3); 18:981(a)(1)(B),(C); 18:982(a); 28:2461 Structuring Financial Transactions; Criminal Forfeiture (19-36)
18:1956(a)(2)(B)(i); 18:981(a)(1)(B),(C), 982(a), 28:2461 - International Money Laundering; Criminal Forfeiture (24s)
18:1956(a)(1)(A)(ii); 18:981(a)(1)(B),(C), 982(a), 28:2461 - Laundering of Monetary Instruments; Criminal Forfeiture (25s)
31:5324(a),(d)(2); 18:2; 18:981(a)(1)(B),(C), 982(a), 28:2461 - Structuring Financial Transactions; Aiding and Abetting; Criminal Forfeiture (26s)
18:1001(a)(2) - False Statements (27s-34s)
18:1344(2), 1349; 18:981(a)(1)(B),(C), 982(a), 28:2461 - Bank Fraud Conspiracy; Criminal Forfeiture (35s)
26:7201 - Tax Evasion (36s-38s)
18:1001(a)(2) 18:981(a)(1)(B),(C); 18:982(a); 28:2461 False Statements to Federal Agents; Criminal Forfeiture (37-44)
18:1349; 18:981(a)(1)(B),(C); 18:982(a); 28:2461 Conspiracy to Commit Bank Fraud; Criminal Forfeiture (45)

[Lazarus Bocanegra 312]

wife copped a plea deal on one count.  Looks like pre-trial diversion with a follow-up date in 2020. 

 

Tyrone is set for trial on June 5

Edited April 27, 2018 by Lazarus Bocanegra

[gsoda3 3362]

anyone able to help out with a search?  if so please DM.

[Gil Bang 26240]

Follow up on the OP:

 

 

SAN DIEGO, Calif. – Today, Tyrone Cedric Duren, 50, of Bonsall, California was sentenced by Judge John A. Houston to 130 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release. The court also ordered the forfeiture of Duren’s primary residence, a money judgment of $275,000, and restitution to the Internal Revenue Service. Duren previously pleaded guilty to 19 counts including charges of money laundering, making false statements, and tax evasion.

While working as a federal agent specializing in the investigation of bulk cash smuggling, Duren stole money from individuals smuggling drug proceeds to Mexico. Duren then laundered those funds by depositing them into personal and business accounts, and used the stolen cash for personal purchases. Over several years, Duren used his position as a federal agent to place GPS trackers on vehicles used to transport proceeds from drug sales. Duren then took some of the drug money after it was seized, laundered it into his own accounts, and spent it on real estate and international travel.

For example, during a July 2013 traffic stop, Duren stole money concealed in the hidden compartment of a vehicle on which he had previously placed a GPS tracker. In March 2014, Duren was tracking a vehicle he suspected to be loaded with cash as it headed toward Mexico. The vehicle was stopped and searched at a Border Patrol Checkpoint and found to contain a large amount of cash concealed in laundry detergent boxes. Duren took custody of the seized cash, but before putting it into evidence, Duren took over $100,000 for himself. He later admitted that he deposited the stolen money into business and personal accounts to conceal those thefts. Duren then failed to file taxes for 2013 to further hide his theft. Duren also lied numerous times to agents who were investigating his crimes.

Agents from the Department of Homeland Security-Office of Inspector General, Immigration and Customs Enforcement-Office of Professional Responsibility and Homeland Security Investigations, U.S. Customs and Border Protection-Office of Professional Responsibility, and the Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigations conducted this investigation. The United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of California is recused. Assistant United States Attorneys Kevin Rapp, Abbie Broughton Marsh, and Mark Wenker of the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Arizona prosecuted this case.  

[Mack Tripper 708]

10 hours ago, gsoda3 said:

anyone able to help out with a search?  if so please DM.

Check PM

[NeverMarryAStripper 22300]

Are you trying to see if you can get some of your money back?

[SKJ 1320]

He's gonna have a great time in the feds. 

They'll probably put him in the protective custody joint in Arizona

[ROFL BOX 6655]

Will he get to select his own Club Fed & do things like yoga, join a gang book club?

[Mack Tripper 708]

No, he'll be going to Federal Pound Me in the Ass Prison. 

[Hank Scorpio 17924]

People are really bad at money laundering. That guy had a good scam going if he had half a brain. Or at least until the cartels found out and murdered his family. 

[SKJ 1320]

3 hours ago, ROFL BOX said:

Will he get to select his own Club Fed & do things like yoga, join a gang book club?

There's supposedly a fed joint in Arizona that's all p.c. cases,  like child molesters,  ex cops, trans,  and all the cases that can't walk a normal yard. 

 

It's probably a real sweet joint

[SKJ 1320]

2 hours ago, Mack Tripper said:

No, he'll be going to Federal Pound Me in the Ass Prison. 

I doubt that.  As soon as someone finds out he was in that position he'll get green lighted immediately. 

There was an ex rampart cop at a fed joint in Illinois that got jumped on by every LA ese in the joint when they found out. 

[SKJ 1320]

2 hours ago, Hank Scorpio said:

People are really bad at money laundering. That guy had a good scam going if he had half a brain. Or at least until the cartels found out and murdered his family. 

Yeah,  and now the cartels are going to have his ass green lighted,  and every surreño gang will be hunting him