Earlier this month, local officials arrested several people in connection with a joint task force investigation into tax fraud. The arrests came about after it became known that people were using the names and social security numbers of living and dead to obtain income tax refunds from the federal government.<\/p>\n
\u201cOperation Rainmaker,\u201d as the roundup was called, resulted in 49 arrests, some of which took place a year ago. Multiple agencies participated and numerous jurisdictional investigations are continuing. Some of the agencies conducting investigations include the United States Secret Service, the United States Postal Inspection Service, the Hillsborough County Sheriff\u2019s Office, the Tampa Police Department, the Hillsborough County State Attorney\u2019s Office, and the U. S. Attorney\u2019s Office for the Middle District of Florida.<\/p>\n
Some of the individuals arrested include: (Pictured top row, l-r: Marlow Favors, Howayda Handan, Hicham Abou El Faouatih Bottom Row: Gary Thomas, Bridgette Jackson, Levar K. Robinson<\/strong>) Tareva Ciara McCray, Arsawa Ralph, Willie Johnson, Damien R. Stokes, Stacy Miller, Omar Singletary, Stephanie Minor, Maurice J. Larry, Kevin G. Palmer, Ryland V. Hicks, and Barrington Roberts<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Names of those released earlier were: Marterrance \u201cQuat\u201d Holloway, Kenneth Goodson, Quincy Wimberly, Janica Bullock, Raid Faria, Reem Faria, Russell Simmons, Jr., Derrick Parker, Deemma Coleman, Bobby Mosley, Jr., Micah Alexander, Jeff Borgelin, Kenyarta Gaines, Alexis Harrison, Sheila Allen, Damien Harrison, Serio Miller, and Eric Ingram.<\/strong><\/p>\n Others arrested were: Roger Snells, Danielle Denson, Patricia Shaw, Shawntrece Sims, Patrick Shaw, Tarrananzton Barr, Alexander Lennox, Hantz St. Marc, Kahaldoun \u201cTony\u201d Khawaja (owner of Main Street Market), Dwayne Johnson, Brinton Gaston, and Michael Williams.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Earlier this month, local officials arrested several people in connection with a joint task force investigation into tax fraud. The arrests came about after it became known that people were using the names and social security numbers of living and dead to obtain income tax refunds from the federal government. \u201cOperation Rainmaker,\u201d as the roundup […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}