May 26, 2021 Acting United States Attorney M. Rhett DeHart announced today that Wendell Wilkins of Spartanburg, was sentenced to 66 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to money laundering, for his role in a scheme to extort and defraud military members that was operated out of the South Carolina Department of Corrections (SCDC).
According to the report, from February 2016 - January 2018, Wilkins received at least $74,000.00 in extorted funds, which investigators traced to at least 25 victims
Years After The First Report Against Him, Army Officer Finally Convicted Of Serial Rape
U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Randall S. Hughes raped multiple women including his own teenage daughter over a ten year period, authorities said. Photo: Getty Images
U.S. Army staff sergeant Randall S. Hughes violently raped the wife of a young soldier at a Super Bowl party in 2017, dragging her by the hair into the home and raping her after the other guests had gone home.
The victim, Leah Ramirez, cowered in the bathroom after the vicious attack until Hughes left the house.
She reported the attack the next day to Army officials at Texas’ Fort Bliss, but Hughes wasn’t charged at the time and would go on to rape a series of other women including his own teenage daughter before he was ultimately convicted of multiple charges including two counts of rape and sentenced to 13 years behind bars, according to a new report from Army Times.