Federal Correctional Institution, Victorville

Federal Correctional Institution, Victorville
Location Victorville, California
Status Operational
Security class Medium-security (with low-security female prison camp)
Population 1,300 (300 in prison camp)
Opened 2004
Managed by Federal Bureau of Prisons
Warden Francisco J. Quintana

The Federal Correctional Institution, Victorville (FCI Victorville) is a medium-security United States federal prison for male inmates in Victorville, California. Part of the Victorville Federal Prison Complex, it is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice. The facility also has an adjacent satellite prison camp for low-security female inmates. The complex is located on land that was formerly part of George Air Force Base.[1]

Notable incidents

In 2010, Scott A. Holencik, 45, the warden of FCI Victorville, was named in a six-count indictment returned by a federal grand jury. The indictment accused Holencik of lying to special agents of the United States Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General, when he was interviewed in November 2009 in connection with an investigation into Internet postings that disclosed confidential government information. The indictment charged Holencik with two felony counts of making false statements when he denied making posts to www.prisonofficer.org. Holencik allegedly made multiple posts to the website that contained sensitive information concerning criminal investigations at the prison. Specifically, it is alleged that he disclosed confidential government information concerning a Bureau of Prisons employee who was suspected of being involved with an inmate gambling scheme, as well as facts related to a homicide that occurred at the prison in August 2009.[2]

A federal judge, Virginia Phillips, subsequently ruled that the information posted on prisonofficer.org was not confidential, thereby dismissing those charges. No court date has been set for Holencik’s trial on the lying to federal investigators charge. Holencik retired as warden.

On February 20, 2014, federal Judge Virginia Phillips ruled dismissing the remaining counts of the indictment against Holencik with prejudice. .[3]

Notable inmates

Current

Inmate name Register number Status Details
Miguel Caro-Quintero 02921-748 Serving a 17-year sentence; scheduled for release in 2019. Former leader of the now-defunct Sonora Cartel, a drug trafficking organization responsible for exporting multi-ton quantities of marijuana to the US during the 1980s and 1990s; extradited to the US from Mexico in 2009.[4][5]
Walli Mujahidh 40738-086 Serving a 17-year sentence; scheduled for release in 2026. Pleaded guilty in 2012 to conspiracy to murder US officers for plotting to attack recruits at a Military Processing Center in Seattle, Washington with grenades and machine guns; co-conspirator Abu Khalid Abdul-Latif received 18 years.[6]
George Trofimoff 39090-018 Serving a life sentence (deceased). Retired US Army Reserve colonel and former civilian intelligence chief for the US Army; convicted in 2001 of providing classified military documents to the KGB during the Cold War; Trofimoff is highest-ranking Army official to be convicted of espionage.[7]
Jeanetta Standefor 47325-112 Serving a 12-year sentence; scheduled for release in 2016. Pleaded guilty in 2008 to mail fraud for offering to assist homeowners facing foreclosure while orchestrating a Ponzi scheme causing them to lose a total of $18 million; story was featured on the CNBC television program American Greed.[8][9][10]

Former

Inmate name Register number Status Details
Lenny Dykstra 57780-112 Released from custody in 2013; served 15 months. Former Major League Baseball player; pleaded guilty in 2012 to bankruptcy fraud and money laundering for hiding and selling sports memorabilia intended to be auctioned off for his bankruptcy filing.[11]
Benjamin Moseley 25731-001 Released from custody in 2013; served 7 years. Pleaded guilty to arson in connection with setting fires at nine Alabama churches in 2006; two accomplices were also sentenced to federal prison.[12][13]
Kristine Eubanks 43710-112 Released from custody in 2013; served 6 years. Pleaded guilty in 2007 to mail fraud, wire fraud, and interstate transportation of stolen property for selling fake art, including works purportedly by Picasso, Dali and Chagall; the story was featured on the CNBC television program American Greed.[14][15][16]
Allison Coss 14432-040 Released from custody in 2014; served 4-years. Convicted in 2010 with her boyfriend, Scott Sippola, of extortion for threatening to sell fabricated photographs of actor John Stamos posing with strippers and using cocaine to the tabloids unless Stamos paid them $680,000.[17][18][19]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "FCC Victorville". Federal Bureau of Prisons.
  2. ↑ "WARDEN OF VICTORVILLE FEDERAL PRISON INDICTED FOR MAKING FALSE STATEMENTS TO CRIMINAL INVESTIGATORS". US Department of Justice. Retrieved 16 March 2013.
  3. ↑ Pavlo, Walter. "Retaliation In The Work Place? Allegations Within The Bureau of Prisons". Forbes. Retrieved 16 March 2013.
  4. ↑ "Former Cartel Leader Extradited from Mexico". US Department of Justice. February 26, 2009. Retrieved 14 May 2013.
  5. ↑ "Miguel Angel Caro-Quintero Sentenced to Federal Prison for Trafficking Massive Amounts of Marijuana from Mexico to the United States". Drug Enforcement Administration. February 5, 2010. Retrieved 14 May 2013.
  6. ↑ http://www.fbi.gov/seattle/press-releases/2013/seattle-man-sentenced-to-18-years-in-prison-for-plot-to-attack-seattle-military-processing-center
  7. ↑ CBS News http://www.cbsnews.com/news/life-sentence-for-spy/. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  8. ↑ Glover, Scott (January 21, 2009). "Woman gets more than 12 years in prison for Ponzi scheme". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 16 March 2013.
  9. ↑ "Woman Who Promised to Help Homeowners Avoid Foreclosure Sentenced to Over 12 Years in Prison for Taking Millions from Investors in Fraudulent Scheme". Federal Bureau of Investigation. Retrieved 16 March 2013.
  10. ↑ "American Greed: Flippy Frenzy Scam". CNBC. Retrieved 16 March 2013.
  11. ↑ "Ex-MLB Star Pleads Pleads Guilty". Huffington Post. 14 July 2012.
  12. ↑ Associated Press (March 20, 2006). "3 Held in Fires at Churches Stay in Jail". The New York Times. Retrieved 16 March 2013.
  13. ↑ Noles, Jim (April 10, 2007). "Ex-Students Are Sentenced for Burning Rural Churches". The New York Times. Retrieved 16 March 2013.
  14. ↑ "Woman in fake art scam gets 7 years in prison". ABC News. Retrieved 17 March 2013.
  15. ↑ "La Cañada Woman Sentenced to Seven Years in Prison for Selling Millions of Dollars of Fake Art Through Nationwide TV Art Auction Program". Retrieved 10 September 2013.
  16. ↑ "American Greed: Portrait of Fraud". CNBC. Retrieved 17 March 2013.
  17. ↑ Associated Press (16 April 2012). "Mich. Pair Lose Appeal in John Stamos extortion". Fox News. Retrieved 17 March 2013.
  18. ↑ Shen, Maxine (July 3, 2010). "FBI 'Lost' extortionist Stamos pics". New York Post. Retrieved 17 March 2013.
  19. ↑ "Marquette Couple Convicted in Extortion Plot Against Actor John Stamos". Federal Bureau of Investigation. Retrieved 17 March 2013.

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