News Releases and Statements

ICE, with assistance from federal law enforcement partners, removed Caleb Aragon Venegas, a 29-year-old illegal alien Sep. 18.

John Stephen Baker, 71, of Tucson, was sentenced Sept. 10 to eight years and six months in prison followed by lifetime supervised release following an ICE Homeland Security Investigations case.

Laye Sekou Camara, 47, of Mays Landing, New Jersey, entered the United States on an immigrant visa and lied on his immigration forms by failing to admit he was involved in Liberia’s civil war.

Edson Jose Contreras-Torrealba, 34, was sentenced on Sept. 16 by a federal judge to serve 120 months in prison.

ICE apprehended Mauricio Castiano-Rojas, 43, in Hartford Sept. 10.

ICE New York City lodged an immigration detainer with the New York City Department of Corrections against the release of the illegal alien accused of mowing down a 16-year-old girl and her family in New York.

Diego Masiel Torres, 19, of Penitas, Texas, was charged in connection with a criminal complaint.

ICE Homeland Security Investigations Rio Grande Valley arrested a previously deported convicted felon and member of the Sureños Gang on Sept. 9.

As part of operation Midway Blitz, in honor of Katie Abraham, ICE officers arrested on Sept. 15 a Larazo gang member who beat a 21-year-old to death in cold blood and was convicted of murder in 2005.

Oscar Rascon Duarte, a 58-year-old citizen of Mexico in ICE custody, was pronounced deceased by medical professionals at Banner Desert Medical Center at approximately 2:33 p.m. Sept. 8.

Four people were charged for their roles in a scheme to smuggle children from Mexico into the United States, sometimes using candy laced with THC to sedate them during smuggling events, following an investigation by ICE Homeland Security Investigations.

An investigation by ICE Homeland Security Investigations New York, with assistance from HSI Los Angeles, HSI Chicago and federal partners, resulted in the unsealing of an indictment charging Naasón Joaquín García, Rosa Sosa, Azalia Rangel García, Eva García De Joaquín, Joram Núñez Joaquín and Silem García Peña with sexual, financial and related criminal conduct victimizing members of the La Luz del Mundo Church over many years.

Michael Sang Correa, 46, was sentenced Aug. 22 to an extraordinary 810 months in prison after being convicted of one count of conspiracy to commit torture and five counts of torture.

A federal grand jury has returned an eight-count indictment charging naturalized U.S. citizens Benedict Nwana Kuah, 51, and Pascal Kikishy Wongbi, 52, with organizing, directing, and financing kidnappings, bombings, and killings in their native country, the Republic of Cameroon.

ICE Homeland Security Investigations New York has arrested an alleged MS-13 associate wanted in El Salvador for aggravated extortion and threats to injure a person.

ICE HSI Detroit, in coordination with multiple federal, state, and local partners, is leading an investigation into an international auto theft ring that has resulted in criminal charges against eight Michigan men.

ICE Houston arrested 822 criminal aliens, transnational gang members, child predators, foreign fugitives and other egregious immigration offenders during a weeklong operation between Aug. 17 and Aug. 23 focused on enhancing public safety in Southeast Texas.

An ICE investigation has led to federal charges against Luis Enrique Villegas Brownell, a Mexican citizen without legal status, and his girlfriend, Kassandra Sanchez, a U.S. citizen, for identity theft and multiple federal crimes.

A South Los Angeles man and tow truck driver was arrested Sept. 2 on a federal criminal complaint charging him with stealing government property by illegally towing a law enforcement vehicle during an active immigration enforcement operation earlier this month.

ICE Homeland Security Investigations joined U.S. Attorney General Pamela Bondi to announce 12 individuals charged in an international conspiracy involving alien smuggling, asylum fraud and money laundering schemes that brought thousands of illegal aliens into the United States for profit.

Notorious gang leader wanted for aggravated kidnapping, aggravated extortion, aggravated homicide, deprivation of liberty, involvement in terrorist organizations, and conspiracy to murder.

ICE special agents, in collaboration with federal, state, and local law enforcement partners, executed a federal search warrant at a company on Sept. 4 as part of an active, ongoing criminal investigation.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement removed Omar Alberto Almodobar Mondragon, a 29-year-old illegal alien, Sep. 4.

ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations removed suspected war criminal and criminal illegal alien Charles Emile Mbayo from the United States to Sierra Leone Aug. 20. Mbayo is a former high-ranking member of the National Provisioning Ruling Council, a military junta that ruled Sierra Leone after overthrowing President Joseph Momoh in a coup on April 29, 1992.

Officers with ICE Boston removed Albert George Davis, 59, from the United States to Jamaica Aug. 21 and turned him over to Jamaican authorities, who sought his arrest for the rape of a child in 2020.