Attorney General Beau Biden announced that Dover resident Dallas Drummond has been sentenced to life in prison as a “habitual offender”.

Following a two-day trial in Superior Court,  a Kent County Jury last month convicted Drummond of Burglary, Theft by False Pretense, Theft, and Criminal Trespass. After his conviction, prosecutors petitioned the Court to declare Drummond aDegree.

“habitual offender” and this morning Superior Court Judge Robert B. Young did so and sentenced him

to the mandatory term of life in prison without parole.

Drummond, age 31, a registered sex offender, has been arrested more than 70 times and has

been charged with more than 100 criminal offenses. He has failed to complete probation multiple

times and has previously been convicted of rape, assault, burglary, conspiracy, harassment,

endangering the welfare of a child, failure to register as a sex offender, criminal impersonation, and

other offenses. The Attorney General’s office argued that Drummond is a substantial risk to the

community and a danger to his family and to society.

“Career criminals do not belong in our communities, they belong behind bars where they

cannot be a threat to public safety,” Biden stated.

On January 19, 2009, Drummond broke into the Smyrna apartment of his estranged wife, who

had previously obtained a No Contact Order against him, and stole a computer which he later sold.

While free on bail awaiting his July, 2010 trial for these offenses, he was arrested on April 14, 2010

and charged with committing a rape which occurred in April 2009. He has been in prison since his

April, 2010 arrest.

“The Department of Justice is committed to protecting the citizens of Delaware from violent

habitual criminals like Dallas Drummond, and when appropriate we will seek to have these criminals

incarcerated for life so that they can’t further victimize Delawareans,” said Deputy Attorney General

R. David Favata, who prosecuted this case.

Under Delaware law, offenders convicted of three separate violent felonies can be declared a

“Habitual Offender” and sentenced to the mandatory term of life in prison without parole. Prosecutors

sought that declaration and today’s sentence based on Drummond’s previous convictions for rape

(March, 1998) and Burglary 2nd Degree (March, 2000) and his July 2010 conviction for Burglary 2nd

Wilmington man pleads guilty to First Degree Murder in 2009 stabbing death
Wilmington – Attorney General Beau Biden announced that Pernell Stroman, age 24 of Wilmington,
pled guilty today before Superior Court Judge John A. Parkins Jr. to First Degree Murder, Burglary 1st
Degree, and Possession of a Deadly Weapon During the Commission of a Felony for the June, 11 2009
death of Julie Gricol in her Wilmington apartment. Stroman faces the mandatory sentence of life in
prison without the possibility of parole when he is sentenced on November 15, 2010.

“Nothing can change the fact that Julie Gricol was taken senselessly and brutally from her
family,” Biden stated. “That is why her killer will spend the rest of his life behind bars.”

On June 11, 2009, when Julie did not report to work, concerned friends went to her apartment
and found her unconscious in her bed suffering from a laceration to her neck. Meanwhile, in the hours
before the killing was discovered, Stroman was stopped by police in Pennsylvania while driving the
victim’s vehicle and was cited for traffic violations and released. After the homicide was discovered,
Stroman became a suspect and he was apprehended on June 14 in Wilmington. He has been
imprisoned without bond in Delaware since his arrest.
The case was prosecuted by Deputy Attorney General James Kriner.
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Attorney General Beau Biden announced today that Courtney Henry, age 28 of Philadelphia, has been sentenced in New Castle County Superior Court to one year in prison for Identity Theft. Between December 8, 2009 and December 12, 2009, Henry went to multiple New Castle County branches of Wachovia bank and withdrew money from her Maryland victim’s savings account after filling out withdrawal slips and presenting a false ID in the victim’s name. On December 14, 2009 she made a final attempt to withdraw money when a bank employee became suspicious of the false identification card and alerted Delaware State Police, who arrested Henry on-site.

“This punishment fits the crime, and we will continue to prosecute identity thieves with the focus their victims deserve,” Attorney General Biden said.”

Henry pled guilty on August 11, 2010 to Identity Theft and Theft of more than $1,500 and was sentenced by Judge John Babiarz to one year in prison, followed by one year probation. In addition, she was ordered to have no contact with the victim and to pay $22,600 in restitution.Biden urged consumers who believe they may be the victim of identity theft to call the Attorney General’s Consumer Protection Hotline at (800) 220-5424. He also reminded consumers that prevention is the best protection against being victimized. The Attorney General’s website, www.attorneygeneral.delaware.gov, contains tips on how to prevent ID theft and information about resources available to victims, including the Attorney General’s ID Theft Passport Program.

The case was prosecuted by Deputy Attorney General Kate Keller.
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Attorney General’s Medicaid fraud investigation leads to arrest of Wilmington dentist

Wilmington – Today, Attorney General Beau Biden announced the arrest of Wilmington pediatric
dentist Marieve O. Rodriguez on twenty counts of felony HealthCare Fraud. The charges stem from a
thirteen month investigation by the Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit that was initiated
following a referral from the Delaware Division of Health and Social Services Medicaid Program
Integrity Unit and a tip received through the Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Hotline.

“When there is fraud and abuse in our state’s Medicaid program our office is dedicated to
taking the necessary civil and criminal action to recover the public’s money,” Attorney General Biden
stated.

Prosecutors charge Rodriguez with submitting numerous claims to the state Medicaid Program
for dental services on children that were never performed. Yesterday, members of the Attorney
General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, with the assistance of the Delaware State Police High
Technology Crimes Unit and the Wilmington Police Department, took Rodriguez into custody as she
opened her practice, Gentle Care Family Dentistry, located at 1021 Gilpin Avenue in Wilmington.
Following her arrest, Rodriguez was arraigned at JP Court 20, where bond was set at $150,000
secured. She was ordered not to practice dentistry, treat any patients or write any prescriptions while
the charges are pending.

The Attorney General’s investigation is ongoing. Patient families who suspect fraudulent
billing by Dr. Rodriguez are urged to contact Special Investigator Patrick Corcoran at 302-577-8314.
Any Delawarean can report Medicaid Fraud by calling the Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Hotline
at (302) 577-5000. Anonymous tips are accepted.
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Biden’s Office secures second criminal indictment in investment fraud case

Wilmington – Attorney General Beau Biden announced today that his Securities Unit has obtained an
indictment against a Michigan man for allegedly swindling a New Castle County resident out of more
than a quarter-million dollars.

Patrick A. Wiley, age 43, of Detroit, Michigan, was charged in today’s indictment with
securities fraud, selling unregistered securities, theft, and racketeering. The indictment arises out of an
investment recovery scam perpetrated by Wiley against a New Castle County victim from October,
2005 to November, 2007.

“We are particularly disturbed by crimes that use trust and confidence as a means to an
illegitimate end. The victim in this case has lost over $300,000 in a con game,” Biden said. “With
deep sympathies for her loss, we remind all Delawareans that any deal that sounds too good to be true,
probably is.”

The investment recovery scam grew out of an investment scam that the victim had fallen prey
to in early 2005. At that time, Darren Dobson, a New Castle County resident, induced the victim to
invest in a “joint trading venture” that supposedly involved several wealthy persons in London,
England. Dobson claimed that a $50,000 investment would yield a return of $10 million by June,
2005. The victim invested in this venture by wiring $45,000 to a company called VFG Management,
LLC in Tampa, Florida, the entity through which the London partners were supposedly operating the
joint trading venture.

In June, 2005, when the promised investment return failed to materialize, the victim contacted
others who were believed to have invested in the venture, including Patrick Wiley. Wiley claimed he
had information regarding the principals involved and that he would pursue them to obtain the victim’s
promised investment return. On numerous occasions between October, 2005 and November, 2007,
Wiley solicited funds from the victim to defray the cost of his efforts, including trips that he was
supposedly taking abroad for meetings with the London trading partners and their attorney. During
that time period, the victim wired more than $276,000 to Wiley on sixty-one separate occasions. The
victim never received the promised investment return or the investment principal.

The indictment announced today by the Attorney General follows a New Castle County Grand
Jury indictment in February, 2010 of Darren Dobson (age 45, currently residing in Charlotte, North
Carolina) on charges of securities fraud, the sale of unregistered securities, and the transaction of
business as an unregistered agent. Trial in that case is scheduled for September, 2010.

The Attorney General’s Office, through its Securities Unit, enforces the Delaware Securities
Act, which regulates the sale of investment products and the activities of investment professionals in
Delaware. The Unit investigates and prosecutes securities fraud and licensing violations by investment
brokers and advisers. Delaware investors are encouraged to report suspected incidents of investment
crime and fraud by calling the Attorney General’s Securities Fraud Hotline at (302) 577-8424.
The Delaware Department of Justice reminds the public that an indictment is merely an
allegation and is not evidence of guilt. Defendants are presumed innocent and are entitled to a jury trial
at which the state bears the burden of proving each charge beyond a reasonable doubt.
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