News Releases and Statements

Dave Dean, 43, of Peoria, Ariz., was sentenced today to 15 years in prison for engaging in a child exploitation enterprise.

U.S. ICE today published an expanded list of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) degree programs that qualify eligible graduates on student visas for an Optional Practical Training (OPT) extension - an important step forward in the Obama administration's continued commitment to fixing our broken immigration system.

A federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment on Wednesday charging Oscar M. Escobar, 36, of Rocksprings, Texas with conspiracy to commit and attempted bulk-cash smuggling in a case is being investigated by Department of Public Safety (DPS), U.S. ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Brown County District Attorney's Office.

Jose Orlando Garcia Duran, 33, a native of the Dominican Republic, was sentenced Wednesday to 286 months in federal prison for his role in smuggling cocaine and heroin through the Port of Savannah. The case was the result of a joint investigation conducted by U.S. ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), U.S. Customs and Border Protection...

Derek S. Holley, 34, of Julian, W. Va., pleaded guilty Thursday to possession of child pornography, following an investigation by U.S. ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). Holley admitted in his plea agreement that in November 2008, he possessed numerous images of child pornography on three computer hard drives located in his parents...

A federal grand jury indicted a man and a woman on Thursday with conspiracy to possess machine guns, possessing machine guns, and smuggling goods from the United States in connection to a undercover buy conducted in April 2011.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Tuesday began using a federal information sharing capability as part of the Secure Communities program in Stark and Tuscarawas counties.

Three Mexican nationals were sentenced Monday on charges of trafficking identification documents and possession of document-making implements following an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Tuesday began using the Secure Communities program in the following six Missouri counties: Barton, Cedar, Putnam, Saint Clair, Sullivan and Vernon.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the Orange County Sheriff's Department (OCSD) and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) have teamed up to create the Orange County Child Exploitation Task Force to identify and arrest child predators operating in the county.

In commemoration of 2011 National Police Week, U.S. ICE held a memorial ceremony on Tuesday, May 10, 2011 in honor of fallen officers and agents who sacrificed their lives while in the line of duty. The ceremony included a tribute to Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent Jaime J. Zapata, who was fatally shot in February 2011 in Mexico.

U.S. ICE Director John Morton has named Michael Feinberg as the new special agent in charge of the five-state Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) office based in the Twin Cities. As special agent in charge, Feinberg supervises a cadre of special agents located in 14 offices throughout Minnesota, Nebraska, Iowa, North Dakota and South Dakota.

Roundtable attendees included law enforcement leaders from throughout the country, as well as representatives from national law enforcement organizations and ICE senior leadership.

U.S. ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents arrested Eliezer Delgado-Ramos, 44, and Julio E. Melendez-Rivera, 25, both of Fajardo, Puerto Rico, and Inocencio Santana-Nieves, 29, of Las Piedras, Puerto Rico, and Raymond Gonzalez-Mercado, 33, of San Juan, and seized more than 1,000 kilograms of cocaine worth about $26 million.

An employee with the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) has been charged with bribery for accepting thousands of dollars to provide driver's licenses to illegal aliens who were not entitled to them following an investigation by U.S. ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Nevada DMV.

A Los Angeles man pleaded guilty Monday to trafficking in counterfeit goods for bringing hundreds of bogus, Chinese-made Ab Circle Pro machines and related items into the United States.

A Bakersfield, Calif.-based company and its chief executive were sentenced here Monday for conspiracy to export services related to sale of industrial valves to Iran.

Investigators arrested 46 commercial drivers in and around New York City during a crackdown on individuals who fraudulently obtained multiple driver licenses using an alias.

ICE HSI special agents arrested Spc. Ethan Larman, 23, at Fort Bliss, Texas, where he is assigned. Fort Bliss U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Division (CID) assisted ICE HSI special agents assigned to the Cyber Crimes Group with the arrest.

Two men were sentenced on Thursday to federal prison for their part in a wide-scale drug trafficking conspiracy. The investigation was led by U.S. ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). Ramon Anthony Nunez, 38, of Allentown, Pa., pleaded guilty on Sep. 22, 2010 to these charges and was sentenced to 17.5 years in federal prison and ordered...

A federal judge has sentenced the husband and wife owners of a downtown Los Angeles jewelry store to 37 months in prison for illegally importing and selling counterfeit designer jewelry, some of which tested positive for hazardous levels of lead nearly 20 times the amount deemed safe by the Consumer Product Safety Commission for handling by kids.

"A citizen of China, who last resided in Bayside, Queens, N.Y., was sentenced Tuesday in U.S. District Court to 18 months for operating a credit card ""bust-out"" scheme that defrauded financial institutions of more than $200,000. The case was investigated by U.S. ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) along with a number of other agencies."

Three Tallahassee construction workers were arraigned in federal court Thursday on charges of possessing and using a fraudulent document as evidence of work authorization in the United States, following an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).

Ricky Valencia, 24, of Yonkers, N.Y., has been arrested on charges of possession, receipt and distribution of child pornography, following an investigation by U.S. ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). According to court documents in the case, Valencia admitted he had taken pornographic pictures of a minor. He also had used Gnutella...

A multi-count indictment was returned yesterday against five Syrian family members from Jacksonville, charged with conspiracy to commit marriage fraud and to make false statements to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).