I got the same call on 11/23/10 from "Special Agent William Rice". He was very threatening on the phone and caught me off guard. Told me i had 2 warrants for my arrest and that i would be taken into federal custody until my hearing on 12/8/10. I should get a lawyer or pay a fine to have this "taken care of" I was in a panic and didn't even think to call anyone to see if this was real. This jerk even told me the name of the judge who signed off on my court date (Peter Franco). Like a nut i got 4500.00 from the bank and had it sent to Edison Joseph, which in turn lead to another phone call from "Lt william Givens" about how "Rice is nothing but trouble and he has to document the incident,blah blah blah. This jerk proceeded to tell me that the 2nd warrant would need to be dealt with to the tune of 3500.00 to be sent to Franklin Hernandez and someone named Guzman. While all this nonsense went on, an "Eric Morales" from internal affairs kept calling me for weeks telling me that they were doing an evestigation on this Givens character. This guy is relentless, and also goes by the name Frank Diaz from Homeland Security. By the time all this was over they managed to extort 11,000.00 outta me!! My father who is a former cop called the local DEA office and we spoke to a real DEA agent. I have lost just about all of my money to these loosers and they still call posing as US Customs agents, Homeland Security, ect. Last week, Morales called and started to threaten me when i said that he is a real [***]. I always thought i was smart to stuff like this coming from a family of cops, but the scare tactic and the keywords tossed me. I reported the entire situation and saved my voice mails on my cell phone to the real DEA and am now working with them by telling my story. As for my financial situation, i am on disability but will now have to return to work so i do not lose everything that i have worked so hard for. Take it from me; if the DEA wants you, the won't call you to let you know, they just show up. Report these jerks for what they are to the real DEA and maybe one of them may actually be caught.
I also just received this call also yesterday, he had left a message, and he called me back this morning because he said that he was in court all day yesterday. He sounded very legit. Until we were getting ready to hang up and I said what was your last name and he just hung up after saying have your lawyer contact me ( little did he know I am best friends with an attorney). He also called from a 202-239-0426 number and said he was with the DEA of Washington DC and said several times that if I would send $950.00 to the Dominincan Republic that it didn't mean I was guilty that my court date of Aug. 20th or 24th would just go away. I asked for a 800 phone number to contact him back and he gave me a number out of connecticut ( 800-877-8898).
I received a call today (8/12/10) from a Lt. Robert Givens of the DEA (202) 224-0211, with bascially the same spiel. That a package with my name was intercepted by Customs coming from the Dominican Republic and that I ws being charged with drug traffiicking and would have to appear in front of the Grand Jury in Fl next week and would face prison time and hefty fines. This went on for a bit, and although I work in the legal industry, I was concerned until he told me I could just pay a fine of $2500 and the case would be dismissed. Then he instructed me to send the fine via MoneyGram or Western Union to an address in the Dominican Republic. I immediately called the local DEA branch in California and reported the incident. I was informed that this is an on going scam and that they are working on catching these crooks. He sounded very official and said just enough buzz words to make sound ligit. He blew it with the fines. DEA or other agents cannot negotiate fines, the court imposes those, and they would never be paid over the phone and certaintly not via MoneyGram to another Country. Received about 15 calls from "Lt Givens" and someone pretending to be a Custom Agent in the DR after the initial call demanding payment of the fine.
Hoping the DEA and local law enforcement can shut these dirtbags down for good.
Keep posting the scammers numbers and names and lets band together to help bring them down.
I got the call today. Same as above. We thought it was a scam so we called the local Police who called Lt. Wm Rice. Lt. William Rice of the Federal Drug Enforecement Administration Agency in Washington, DC at 202-2349-0426 actually had the balls to tell the the real officer that he was interferring with a DEA investigation! He's upped the anty tho. He told me I needed to wire $1500.00 to Officer Edison Joseph in Moca, DR. What scum. At least I had the satisfaction of calling him back and telling him to "go to hell"!
I just got a call from a lt william rice saying im gonna go to US district court in ashington DC. He says he is from the DEA in washington. He said I can make it all go away if I pay the 1500.00 fine. His number is 202-239-0426.