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 got the same phone call from LT. William Rice from the DEA in Baltimore, Maryland. i'm going to call him back and waste his time by playing along. maybe i'll tell him i can send the money if he sends me $10 dollars to get a certified check. this is a great website, spread the word.
Received same phone call from Lt. William Rice. Transferred me to Richard Kenyon. Both said I need to hire an attorney. Both said I could send $1,850 to the Attorney General in the Dominican Republic to pay for a waiver. This had to be done today or I could appear in Baltimore Maryland to plead guilty to drug charges. He said some law was retroactive. I told him to go ahead and summon me. He said to have my lawyer call him. What a joke.
i have been receiving the same calls with the same details as most of you too. a leutenant william rice..........and to send a money order to an Edison Joseph at 1600 Washington Ave suite 107 Moca Dominican Republic.............and a fine of 850.00....
I received the same call, to make the same pmt. to Edison joseph at 1600 washington ave, Moca.. Dominican Republic.. I told them that I wanted a badge number so that I could check with the DEA in my area because I thought that the call was a scam, He told me to have a good day and hung up....unbelievable...
I got the exact same call!!! Three times today. He told me that they confiscated some medication coming from Dominican Republic and I violated the law. I will either have to get my lawyer involved or be extradited to Dominican Republic for a trial. If I pay a fine of $2500.00 the whole case would just go away. I had no idea what he was talking about. He said I will have to send the money to Dominican Republic using Western Union to someone by the name of Montana or something. I asked why? He gave me some rubbish response.
The whole thing was so fishy. I asked him if he know where I reside. He said he knows everything about me. I asked him if he could tell me my address and he gave me an address I used 4 years ago!! I just hang up on him right there and right then.
If anything gets confiscated, in general, I learned what happens is that the custom sends out a formal letter about it. This is a scam. When I hang up, he called 3 times and I did not reply.
I really would like to know what the FBI agent had to say about this! I, too, plan to call the FBI myself.