11 indicted by federal grand jury

Eleven people were indicted by a federal grand jury Wednesday, including six on counterfeit or forgery charges.

According to the indictments, four people "passed, uttered, published, sold or possessed" between $100 and $15,000 in forged $100 bills between November 1998 and July 1999.

Ivan Kountchev, Jessica Caballero and Valentin Vladimirov were indicted on a single count each of "possession and utterance of counterfeit obligations of the U.S.," And Kalin Manchev was indicted on two counts of the same charge.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Joe Sullivan declined to say whether the four cases are related, noting the law precludes him from discussing specifics.

Two other indictments were returned in counterfeit or forgery cases.

Freddy Lee was indicted on three counts of possession and uttering counterfeit securities in a case involving counterfeit cashier's checks passed to Federal Express and the United Parcel Service in July and August, court records show.

Scott Steinberg was indicted on one count of possessing and uttering a forged security.

Delvecchio Norment was indicted on 28 different counts relating to banking transactions he made over a five-week period in January and February this year, court records show.

Norment is accused of opening accounts at various Las Vegas banks in various names, depositing counterfeit Wells Fargo checks totaling more than $42,000 and then withdrawing the funds.

Norment was indicted on access device fraud, bank fraud, laundering money and aiding and abetting charges, court records show.

Indicted on charges of "unlawful re-entry of a deported alien" were Sergio Alonso-Maldonado, Rudolfo Rodriguez-Jimenez, Jesus Jimenez-Nunez and Armando Calderon-Espinoza.

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