DAVENPORT, IA - On January 22, 2015, Kenra Sharay Campbell, age 29, of Davenport, Iowa, was sentenced by United States District Court Chief Judge James E. Gritzner to 18 months in prison, after pleading guilty to escape from federal custody, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt. Campbell was also ordered to serve two years of supervised release following the imprisonment, and to pay $100 to the Crime Victims Fund.

On August 6, 2014, Campbell escaped from the Davenport Work Release Center, where she was serving the remainder of a federal sentence for felon in possession of a firearm. On August 8, 2014, the United States Marshals Service arrested Campbell in Moline, Illinois.

This case was investigated by the United States Marshals Service. The case was prosecuted by the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Iowa.
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DES MOINES, IA - Former Iowa resident Christina M. Pender and California resident Robert K. Taylor have pled guilty to defrauding insurance company AIG out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Taylor also pled guilty to making false statements to a financial institution involving a mortgage fraud scheme in California. Pender pled guilty on April 17, 2014, and Taylor pled guilty on August 27, 2014.

On May 21, 2013, a federal grand jury in the Southern District of Iowa indicted Pender and Taylor for wire fraud. From approximately April 1, 2010 to January 5, 2011, Pender and Taylor perpetrated a scheme whereby Pender, then an AIG insurance adjuster located in West Des Moines, Iowa, approved payments to companies owned by Taylor for expert services that were never provided. Taylor's companies were based in California, where he resided, and included TEI Group Associates, Inc., TEI Group, Inc., and Equitable Consulting Solutions.

Pender also approved payments for expert services that were not provided to another Iowa-based company, MDP Group, which was owned, in part, by her then-boyfriend. All of the alleged services were supposed to be for consulting in furtherance of AIG's handling of construction defect claims that were in litigation. In total, Pender admitted that she approved approximately $925,406 in payments by AIG for services that were not provided. Taylor received $666,128.98 of those payments.

During the pendency of the prosecution for wire fraud, the Government discovered that Taylor was also part of a mortgage fraud scheme in California. From approximately December 2005 through April 2006, Taylor applied for and received mortgage loans and lines of credit that he used for the purchase and refinance of several real properties in Kingsburg, California. In his mortgage loan and line of credit applications for these properties, Taylor knowingly and fraudulently identified his social security number as a number which he knew was not his social security number in an effort to influence the approval and funding of the loans. Taylor ultimately defaulted on his payment obligations, and the Kingsburg properties were foreclosed.

Then, on November 20, 2012, Taylor subsequently filed a petition for bankruptcy using the fraudulent social security number. As a result of Taylor's false statements for the purpose of obtaining the mortgage loans and lines of credit, Taylor caused lending institutions, including Countrywide Bank, losses of $326,100. Taylor pled guilty to an Information charging him with making false statements to a financial institution.

Pender was sentenced to 18 months in prison and ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $879,401.74 to AIG. Taylor was sentenced to 28 months in prison and ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $376,468.80 to Bank of America and $623,924.72 to AIG. The wire fraud case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and prosecuted by the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Iowa. The case involving false statements to a financial institution was investigated by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation?Office of Inspector General and prosecuted by the United States Attorney's Offices for the Eastern District of California and the Southern District of Iowa.

DAVENPORT, IA- On December 19, 2014, Ronnell Monshanique Henderson, age 33, of Davenport, Iowa, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Stephanie M. Rose to 100 months imprisonment, after pleading guilty to possession of a firearm as a felon, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt. Henderson was also ordered to serve three years of supervised release following his conviction, and to pay $100 towards the Crime Victims Fund.

On March 20, 2014, officers with the Davenport, Iowa, Police Department responded to a report of a burglary in progress. Witnesses were able to provide a description of the subjects involved as well as a description and license plate number of the maroon SUV they left in. Davenport police officers in the area observed a vehicle with occupants that matched this description and conducted a traffic stop.

Henderson stepped out of the vehicle at the request of the officers, and an officer instructed him to turn around and face the vehicle. As Henderson started to turn, he swung his arm back, struck the officer and attempted to run. Two officers were able to catch Henderson and physically placed him on the ground. Henderson continued to physically resist. Henderson kept his hands underneath him and failed to respond to repeated commands to give officers his hands. Officers were finally able to get control of Henderson's hands. Henderson continued to physically struggle with officers as they searched him. Officers found a loaded black revolver in Henderson's right front jacket pocket. Both officers sustained injuries as a result of Henderson's resistance to arrest.

The firearm seized was an Uberti Outlaw 44/40 caliber revolver loaded with five rounds, which had been reported stolen in February 2011. Prior to March 20, 2014, Henderson had been convicted of a robbery, a Class C felony under Iowa law.

This case was investigated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and the Davenport, Iowa, Police Department. This case was prosecuted by the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Iowa as part of the Project Safe Neighborhood initiative.

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