Indictment — No. 8:25-cr-00516 (Dkt. 1, M.D. Fla.)

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An indictment filed November 6, 2025 as Document 1 in United States v. Sherell E. Breus, Jessie Amedo Perlado and eight other defendants, Case 8:25-cr-00516-WFJ-CPT, in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, Tampa Division. Count One is captioned Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud under 18 U.S.C. § 1349, and Counts Two through Ten are captioned Wire Fraud under 18 U.S.C. § 1343. The indictment alleges that the defendants used false and fraudulent information to obtain loans from federal government programs to which they were not entitled, through purported businesses it names, and describes the Small Business Administration and COVID-19 related programs including the Economic Injury Disaster Loan. A forfeiture section follows.

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
MIDDLE DISTRICT OF FLORIDA
TAMPA DIVISION

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

SHERELL E. BREUS, 18 U.S.C. § 1349
JESSIE AMEDO PERLADO, 18 U.S.C. § 1343
CANDICE NICOLE HARPER,
YASHICA MONIQUE CARTER,
BRANDON JAMES THOMAS,
ANTWAUN QUINN JOHNSON,
JESSICA A. SEJOUR,
TAMESHIA LACIA ROBERSON,
VANCE WARREN HOUSTON, and
RAYMOND CARVIL SR.

INDICTMENT

The Grand Jury charges:

COUNT ONE
(Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud)

A. Introduction

At times material to this Indictment:

Parties and Entities

1. SHERELL E. BREUS, JESSIE AMEDO PERLADO, CANDICE

NICOLE HARPER, YASHICA MONIQUE CARTER, ANTWAUN QUINN

JOHNSON, JESSICA A. SEJOUR, TAMESHIA LACIA ROBERSON, VANCE

WARREN HOUSTON, and RAYMOND CARVIL SR. used false and fraudulent
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information in order to obtain loans from federal government programs to which

they were not entitled.

2. A Time Transport, LLC was a purported transportation business

located in the Middle District of Florida and owned by BREUS.

3. TLC Affordable Consultants, LLC was a purported home health

business located in the Middle District of Florida and owned by BREUS.

4. SaveOurLittleOnes, Inc. was a purported community food services

business located in the Middle District of Florida and owned by BREUS.

5. Ella's Senior Care, LLC was a purported health services business

located in the Middle District of Florida and owned by BREUS.

6. Prime Time Medical Transport, LLC was a purported transportation

business located in the Middle District of Florida and owned by PERLADO.

7. We Care Adult Care, LLC was a purported health services business

located in the Middle District of Florida and owned by PERLADO.

8. icaretransport, LLC was a purported transportation business located in

the Southern District of Florda and owned by HARPER.

9. Genuine Care Transport, LLC was a purported transportation business

located in the Middle District of Florida and owned by CARTER.

10. A to B Transportation, LLC was a purported transportation business

located in the Southern District of Florida and owned by THOMAS and

JOHNSON.

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11. Above and Beyond Transportation, LLC was a purported

transportation business located in the Southern District of Florida and owned by

SEJOUR.

12. Sudden Success, LLC was a purported health Services business located

in the Middle District of Florida and owned by ROBERSON.

13. Broward Shirt Printing, LLC was a purported apparel business located

in the Southern District ofFlorda and owned by HOUSTON.

14. E & C Security Agency, LLC was a purported special needs

transportation business located in the Southern District of Florda and owned by

CARVILSR.

15. Financial Institution # 1 was headquartered in New York and used

computer servers located outside of Florida to process financial transactions through

interstate wires. BREUS maintained accounts at Financial Institution # 1, including

the account ending in 2951.

16. Financial Institution #2 was headquartered in Pennsylvania and used

computer servers located outside of Florida to process financial transactions through

interstate wires. BREUS maintained accounts at Financial Institution #2, including

the account ending in 314 7.

17. Financial Institution #3 was headquartered in Virginia and used

computer servers located outside of Florida to process financial transactions through

interstate wires. BREUS maintained accounts at Financial Institution #3, including
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the account ending in 4877.

18. Financial Institution #4 was headquartered in North Carolina.

PERLADO maintained an account at Financial Institution #4 ending in 7196.

19. The United States Small Business Administration ("SBA") was an

executive branch agency of the United States government that provided support to

entrepreneurs and small businesses.

COVID-19 Related Programs

20. In or around March 2020, the President declared the ongoing

Coronavirus Disease 2019 ("COVID-19") pandemic of sufficient severity and

magnitude to warrant an emergency declaration for all states, tribes, territories, and

the District of Columbia pursuant to section 501(b) of the Robert T. Stafford

Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, 42 U.S.C. 5121-5207. The President

also signed into law the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security

("CARES") Act and the Families First Coronavirus Response Act.

21. The SBA enabled and provided for loans through banks, credit unions

and other lenders. These loans had government-backed guarantees. In addition to

traditional SBA funding programs, the CARES Act established several new

temporary programs and provided for the expansion of others to address the

COVID-19 outbreak.

Economic Injury Disaster Loan

22. One government response to the COVID-19 outbreak was an expansion

of an existing disaster-related program-the Economic Injury Disaster Loan
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("EIDL")-to provide for loan assistance (including $10,000 advances) for small

businesses and other eligible entities for loans up to $2 million. The EIDL proceeds

could be used to pay certain qualifying expenses (i.e., fixed debts, payroll, accounts

payable, and other bills) that could have been paid had the disaster not occurred.

23. EIDL funds were issued directly from the United States Treasury, and

applicants applied through the SBA via an online portal and application. The EIDL

application process collected information concerning the business and the business

owner. Applicants electronically certified that the information provided was accurate

and were warned that any false statement or misrepresentation to the SBA or any

misapplication of loan proceeds may result in sanctions, including criminal penalties.

Paycheck Protection Program

24. One of the new loan programs was the SBA PPP, which was a loan

designed, in part, to provide a direct incentive for small businesses to keep their

workers on the payroll. Under this program, the SBA could forgive all or part of the

borrowing business's loans provided that employees were kept on the payroll for

eight weeks and borrowers submitted documentation confirming that the loan

proceeds were used for certain qualifying business expenses (i.e., payroll, rent,

mortgage interest, or utilities).

25. Interested applicants applied through an existing SBA lender or any

other participating federally-insured financial institution. The PPP application

process required applicants to submit a Borrower Application Form through an SBA

approved financial entity. The application contained information as to the purpose of
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the loan, average monthly payroll, number of employees, and background of the

business and its owner. Applicants were also required to make certain good faith

certifications, including that economic uncertainties had necessitated their loan

proceeds only for the authorized purposes.

B. The Conspiracy

26. Beginning on an unknown date, but at least as early as in or around

April 2020, and continuing through at least in or around June 2021, in the Middle

District of Florida and elsewhere, the defendants,

SHERELL E. BREUS,
JESSIE AMEDO PERLADO,
CANDICE NICOLE HARPER,
YASHICA MONIQUE CARTER,
BRANDON JAMES THOMAS,
ANTWAUN QUINN JOHNSON,
JESSICA A. SEJOUR,
TAMESHIA LACIA ROBERSON,
VANCE WARREN HOUSTON, and
RAYMOND CARVIL SR.,

did knowingly and willfully combine, conspire, confederate, and agree with each

other and others, both known and unknown to the Grand Jury to commit wire fraud,

in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1343.

C. Manner and Means

27. The manner and means by which the conspirators sought to accomplish

the conspiracy included, among others, the following:

a. It was part of the conspiracy that the conspirators would and did

prepare and submit, and cause to be prepared and submitted, materially false and

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fraudulent applications to federal government programs tailored to provide benefits

and relief to businesses and workers negatively impacted by the COVID-19

pandemic, including the SBA PPP and EIDL programs.

b. It was further a part of the conspiracy that, in order to induce the

SBA and the lenders to fund CARES Act loans, the conspirators would and did

prepare and submit, and cause to be prepared and submitted, false and fraudulent

applications to the SBA and lenders that included multiple materially false and

fraudulent representations and pretenses, including:

1. stating a business name, owner, address, telephone

number, number of employees, gross revenue, and business costs, which falsely and

fraudulently suggested that this information accurately reflected the operation of the

business;

n. representing and certifying that loan proceeds would be

used for business-related purposes; and

m. fraudulently affirming the truth of statements in the

application.

c. It was further a part of the conspiracy that the conspirators would

and did submit, and cause to be submitted, fraudulent Department of Treasury -

Internal Revenue Service documentation in support of said applications, including:

1. 2019 Form 944 Employer's Annual Federal Tax Return;

n. 2019 Quarters One though Four Form 941 Employer's

Quarterly Federal Tax Return;
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111. 2019 Form 1040 U.S. Individual Income Tax Return;

1v. 2019 Form 1040 U.S. Individual Income Tax Return

Schedule C;

v. 2019 Form W-2 Wage and Tax Statement; and

v1. 2020 Form 1040 U.S. Individual Income Tax Return

Schedule C.

d. It was further a part of the conspiracy that the conspirators would

and did cause the lenders to transmit interstate wires to the SBA in order to receive a

PPP loan number for their applications.

e. It was further a part of the conspiracy that the conspirators would

and did cause the SBA and the lenders to transmit EIDL and PPP loan proceeds via

interstate wire transfers to accounts they controlled.

f. It was further a part of the conspiracy that the conspirators would

and did transfer fraudulently-obtained proceeds to other accounts, including

accounts belonging to co-conspirators.

g. It was further a part of the conspiracy that the conspirators would

and did perform acts and make statements to promote and achieve the scheme and

artifice and to misrepresent, hide, and conceal, and cause to be misrepresented,

hidden, and concealed, the scheme and artifice and the acts committed in

furtherance thereof.

All in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1349.

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COUNTS TWO THROUGH TEN
(Wire Fraud)

A. Introduction

1. The Grand Jury realleges and incorporates Part A of Count One of this

Indictment as if fully set forth herein.

B. The Scheme and Artifice

2. Beginning on an unknown date, but at least as early as in or around

April 2020, and continuing through at least in or around June 2021, in the Middle

District of Florida and elsewhere, the defendants,

did knowingly and intentionally devise and intend to devise a scheme and artifice to

defraud, and for obtaining money and property by means of false and fraudulent

pretenses, representations, and promises about a material fact.

C. Manner and Means of the Scheme and Artifice

3. The manner and means of the scheme and artifice are set forth in Part C

(Manner and Means of the Conspiracy) of Count One of this Indictment, the

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allegations of which are realleged and incorporated by reference as if fully set forth

herein.

D . Execution of the Scheme and Artifice

4. On or about the date set forth below in each count, in the Middle

District of Florida and elsewhere, the defendants, for the purpose of executing the

aforesaid scheme and artifice, knowingly and intentionally transmitted and caused to

be transmitted by means of wire communication in interstate and foreign commerce

the writings, signs, signals, pictures, and sounds described below, each transmission

constituting a separate count:

Count Date of Wire Defendant(s) Description of Wire
SHERELLE.
An interstate wire resulting in a
BREUS
June 15, $11,800 deposit of PPP funds into a
TWO and
2020 Financial Institution # 1 account
VANCE WARREN
ending in 2915
HOUSTON

SHERELLE.
An interstate wire resulting in a
BREUS
June 26, $18,000 deposit of PPP funds into a
THREE and
2020 Financial Institution #2 account
CANDICE
ending in 3147
NICOLE HARPER

SHERELLE.
An interstate wire resulting in a
BREUS
July 2, $12,105 deposit into a Financial
FOUR and
2020 Institution #2 account ending in
JESSIE AMEDO
3147
PERLADO

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SHERELLE.
BREUS An interstate wire resulting in a
July 2, and $15,921 deposit into a Financial
FIVE
2020 TAMESHIA Institution #3 account ending in
LACIA 4877
ROBERSON
SHERELLE.
An interstate wire resulting in a
BREUS
July 22, $19,500 deposit into a Financial
SIX and
2020 Institution #2 account ending in
RAYMOND
3147
CARVILSR.
SHERELLE.
BREUS,
ANTWAUN An interstate wire resulting in a
August 25, QUINN $8,500 deposit ofEIDL funds into a
SEVEN
2020 JOHNSON, Financial Institution #2 account
and ending in 3147
JESSICA A.
SEJOUR
SHERELLE.
BREUS,
An interstate wire resulting in a
BRANDON
September 18, $25,000 deposit of CARES Act funds
EIGHT JAMES THOMAS,
2020 into a Financial Institution #2
and
account ending in 3147
ANTWAUN
QUINN JOHNSON
An interstate wire resulting in a
March 28, JESSIE AMEDO $62,500 deposit of PPP funds into a
NINE
2021 PERLADO Financial Institution #4 account
ending in 6432
SHERELLE.
BREUS An interstate wire resulting in a
April 26, and $2,000 deposit of PPP funds into a
TEN
2021 YASHICA Financial Institution # 1 account
MONIQUE ending in 2915
CARTER

In violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1343 and 2.
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FORFEITURE

1. The allegations contained in Counts One through Ten are incorporated

by reference for the purpose of alleging forfeiture pursuant to 18 U.S.C. §

981(a)(l)(C) and 28 U.S.C. § 2461(c).

2. Upon conviction of a conspiracy to commit wire fraud, in violation of

18 U.S.C. § 1349, or wire fraud, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1343, the defendants

shall forfeit to the United States, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 981(a)(l)(C) and 28 U.S.C.

§ 2461(c), any property, real or personal, which constitutes or is derived from

proceeds traceable to the offense.

3. The property to be forfeited includes, but is not limited to, an order of

forfeiture in the amount of approximately $2,294,734.50, which represents the

proceeds the defendants obtained from the offense.

4. If any of the property described above, as a result of any act or omission

of the defendant:

a. cannot be located upon the exercise of due diligence;

b. has been transferred or sold to, or deposited with, a third party;

c. has been placed_ beyond the jurisdiction of the court;

d. has been substantially diminished in value; or

e. has been commingled with other property which cannot be

divided without difficulty,

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the United States shall be entitled to forfeiture of substitute property pursuant to 21

U.S.C. § 853(p), as incorporated by 28 U.S.C. § 2461(c).

GREGORY W . KEHOE
United States Attorney

By:
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Assistant United States Attorney

By:
Giegory D. Pizzo
Assistant United States Attorney
Chief, Economic Crimes Section

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FORMOBD-34
November 25 No.

UNITED STATES DISTRJCT COURT
Middle District of Florida
Tampa Division

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERJCA

vs.

SHERELL E. BREUS, JESSIE AMEDO PERLADO, CANDICE NICOLE HARPER, YASHICA MONIQUE
CARTER, BRANDON JAMES THOMAS, ANTWAUN QUINN JOHNSON, JESSICA A. SEJOUR,
TAMESHIA LACIA ROBERSON, VANCE WARREN HOUSTON, and RAYMOND CARVIL SR

INDICTMENT

Violations: 18 U.S.C. § 1349, 1343

A true bill,

Foreperson

Filed in open court this 6th day

ofNovember,2025

~~ JULIA BARDAK

Bail$_ _ _ _ _ __
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