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]

In the first episode of the HBO television series Luck, the main character Chester "Ace" Bernstein, played by Dustin Hoffman, is released from federal custody after serving 3 years at FCI Victorville.[4]

Notable inmates

Current

Inmate name Register number Status Details
Mohamed Osman Mohamud 73079-065 Serving a 30-year sentence; scheduled for release in 2037. US citizen from Somalia; convicted in 2013 of attempting to use of a weapon of mass destruction for trying to detonate what he thought was a car bomb supplied by undercover FBI agents posing as members of Al-Qaeda at a Christmas tree lighting in Portland, Oregon in 2010.[5][6]
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.[7][8]
Jack Rosga 10542-089 Serving a 20-year sentence; scheduled for release in 2027. National President of the Outlaws Motorcycle Club; convicted in 2010 of conspiracy to commit racketeering activities and commit violence in aid of racketeering for ordering the murders of rival gang members and overseeing drug trafficking operations.[9]
Randolph Linn 58384-060 Serving a 20-year sentence; scheduled for release in 2030. Former US Marine; pleaded guilty in December 2012 to violating federal hate crimes law for setting fire to the Islamic Center of Greater Toledo, Ohio in September 2012, causing $1.4 million in damage.[10][11]
David Kaup 62547-112 Serving an 8-year sentence; scheduled for release in 2021. Former mortage firm owner and federal fugitive; pleaded guilty in 2012 to wire fraud for defrauding 50 families out of $11 million in bogus mortgage refinancing scams; apprehended in 2013 after being featured on the CNBC television program American Greed: The Fugitives.[12][13][14]
Auburn Calloway 14601-076 Two consecutive life sentences without parole Attempted hijacking and attempted murder of the crew members of Federal Express Flight 705. Was charged and convicted of attempted murder, attempted air piracy, and interference of flight crew operations.[15]

Former

Inmate name Register number Status Details
Lenny Dykstra 57780-112 Released from custody in 2013; served 15 months.[16] 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.[17]
Benjamin Moseley 25731-001 Released from custody in 2013; served 7 years.[18] Pleaded guilty to arson in connection with setting fires at nine Alabama churches in 2006; two accomplices were also sentenced to federal prison.[19][20]
George Trofimoff 39090-018 Died in 2014 while serving a life sentence.[21] 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.[22]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "FCC Victorville". Federal Bureau of Prisons.
  2. ↑ "WARDEN OF VICTORVILLE FEDERAL PRISON INDICTED FOR MAKING FALSE STATEMENTS TO CRIMINAL INVESTIGATORS" (PDF). 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. ↑ Vonder Haar, Pete (January 30, 2012). "Luck: "You Don't Know Your Own Depth"". Houston Press. Houston Press, LP. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
  5. ↑ Associated Press (January 31, 2013). "Jury finds suspect in Christmas tree bomb plot guilty of terrorism, rejecting entrapment claim". Fox News. Retrieved 17 October 2013.
  6. ↑ "Oregon Resident Convicted in Plot to Bomb Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony in Portland". US Department of Justice. January 31, 2013. Retrieved 17 October 2013.
  7. ↑ "Former Cartel Leader Extradited from Mexico". US Department of Justice. February 26, 2009. Retrieved 14 May 2013.
  8. ↑ "Miguel Angel Caro-Quintero Sentenced to Federal Prison for Trafficking Massive Amounts of Marijuana from Mexico to the United States". Drug Enforcement Administration. February 26, 2009. Retrieved 14 May 2013.
  9. ↑ "Outlaws Motorcycle National President Sentenced to 20 Years in Prison". justice.gov. US Department of Justice. April 8, 2011. Retrieved 13 December 2015.
  10. ↑ "NDIANA MAN PLEADS GUILTY TO RELIGIOUSLY MOTIVATED ATTACK ON TOLEDO-AREA MOSQUE". US Department of Justice. December 19, 2012. Retrieved 1 May 2013.
  11. ↑ "Mosque arsonist Randolph Linn sentenced to 20 years". Washington Post. April 17, 2013. Retrieved 1 May 2013.
  12. ↑ "A capture after 'American Greed: The Fugitives' profile". CNBC. December 4, 2013. Retrieved 25 December 2013.
  13. ↑ Lopez, Robert J. (November 26, 2013). "San Gabriel con man who defrauded victims captured in Las Vegas". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 25 December 2013.
  14. ↑ "Fugitive Who Failed to Appear for Sentencing for Carrying Out a Multi-Million-Dollar Scheme That Defrauded Homeowners Arrested in Las Vegas". Federal Bureau of Investigation. November 26, 2013.
  15. ↑ "U.S. v. Calloway". Leagle. Retrieved December 16, 2013.
  16. ↑ Sandomir, Richard (August 2, 2014). "Lenny Dykstra: Out of Prison, and Still Headstrong". The New York Times. Retrieved 19 September 2015.
  17. ↑ "Ex-MLB Star Pleads Pleads Guilty". Huffington Post. 14 July 2012.
  18. ↑ Stein, Kelsey (October 3, 2013). "'Please forgive me. Please pray for me,' convicted church arsonist asks congregations, family at hearing requesting early release". AL.com. Alabama Media Group. Retrieved 19 September 2015.
  19. ↑ Associated Press (March 20, 2006). "3 Held in Fires at Churches Stay in Jail". The New York Times. Retrieved 16 March 2013.
  20. ↑ Noles, Jim (April 10, 2007). "Ex-Students Are Sentenced for Burning Rural Churches". The New York Times. Retrieved 16 March 2013.
  21. ↑ McCarty, James F. (April 1, 2014). "Jimmy Dimora moved to federal prison near Death Valley, California; feds won't explain why". cleveland.com. Northeast Ohio Media Group LLC. Retrieved 1 October 2015.
  22. ↑ CBS News http://www.cbsnews.com/news/life-sentence-for-spy/. Missing or empty |title= (help)

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