Fraud, porn indictments returned

Jace Radke

Thursday, April 25, 2002 | 9:22 a.m.

A Las Vegas man has been indicted for allegedly running a series of schemes of unauthorized withdrawals from victims' bank accounts and defrauding financial institutions of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Myles Stanley Jackson is facing charges of conspiracy, aiding and abetting, and mail, wire and bank fraud, according to an indictment handed down by a Clark County grand jury Wednesday.

According to the indictment, Jackson and a co-schemer set up various bank accounts for fictitious individuals and businesses to give the appearance of legitimacy. Jackson then allegedly established Internet banking services to gain unauthorized access to four victims' accounts.

Checks totaling more than $521,000 were drawn on the victims' accounts. Some of the money withdrawn was used to buy gold coins and computers, according to the indictment.

"It was quite the scheme," said Assistant U.S. Attorney Margaret Stanish. "A number of different fictitious names were used to access the bank accounts."

In a separate case, Matthew Shawn McMullen was indicted on one count of receipt of child pornography. According to the indictment, McMullen knowingly had a computer hard drive, diskettes and an e-mail account that contained an image of child pornography.

Also, two men were indicted on charges of interfering with a flight crew in a commercial aircraft.

Stephen O'Bleness, 59, allegedly assaulted and intimidated a flight attendant on Frontier Airlines flight 775 on March 7 from Denver to Las Vegas. According to the indictment, he struck a female flight attendant in the face, bruising her eye.

John Edward Sharp, 32, allegedly intimidated flight attendants on American Airlines flight 1070 on a March 5 flight from Las Vegas to Dallas.