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March 10, 2011
|Intellectual Property Rights and Commercial Fraud
A business located in New York's Diamond District has agreed to forfeit $1.9 million worth of illegally imported Rolex watches and parts, and pay a $325,000 penalty for illegally importing trademarked merchandise intended for sale in another country.
March 10, 2011
|Child Exploitation
Richard Donald Lieberman, 64, of Washington, D.C., was charged by the State of Florida Attorney's Office with two counts of receiving online statements for the purpose of sexual conduct with a child, two counts of using the computer to seduce a child, one count of transmitting harmful material to minors and one count of lewd or lascivious battery.
March 9, 2011
|Narcotics

HARLINGEN, Texas - A convicted drug trafficker was sentenced on Monday to six years and 10 months on federal prison, following an investigation led by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).

Antonio Medina, 38, was indicted Oct. 12 by a federal jury on two counts for knowingly and intentionally conspiring to possess with intent to distribute more than 50 kilograms (110 pounds) of marijuana.

March 9, 2011
|Narcotics
A Providence man who admitted to setting up a deal to purchase $1 million worth of cocaine from an FBI undercover agent in August 2008 was sentenced Wednesday to 121 months in prison to be followed by five years of supervised release.
March 9, 2011
|Narcotics
U.S. ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) seized nearly 13 pounds of methamphetamine Wednesday near Amado, Ariz. An HSI agent, working with the Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office and the U.S. Border Patrol, found the drugs after a suspected drug smuggling vehicle was stopped in Nogales as it traveled north on Interstate 19 toward Tucson.
March 9, 2011
|Operational

PENSACOLA, Fla. - Three individuals were sentenced Wednesday to federal prison for conspiring to transport more than a half million dollars in property stolen during a series of commercial burglaries, following an investigation by U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and numerous other law enforcement partners in northwest Florida.

March 9, 2011
|Firearms, Ammunition and Explosives
ICE HSI and ATF agents executed arrests warrants on March 8, after the filing of sealed criminal complaints charging Patrick Regan, 40, and his Colombian-born wife, Ximena del Pilar Echeverry Arias, 25, with conspiracy, smuggling goods from the United States and possessing a firearm with an obliterated serial number.
March 9, 2011
|Financial Crimes
"A citizen of Romania was sentenced today in Connecticut to 41 months of imprisonment for participating in a multistate ATM ""skimming"" scheme."
March 9, 2011
|Child Exploitation
Michael James Sheets, 45, of Kansas City, Mo., pleaded guilty March 9 to the charges contained in a June 15, 2010 federal indictment.
March 9, 2011
|Financial Crimes
Special agents with U.S. ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) returned 160,000 dollars to an 87-year-old Los Angeles-area man victimized by Quebec-based telemarketing con artists who told him he had won a 3.3 million dollar Canadian lottery prize.
March 9, 2011
|Enforcement and Removal
A Canadian national convicted in the United States of plotting to blow up the Trans-Alaska Pipeline in 2000 was deported to his native country Tuesday by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) where he was turned over to representatives from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) at Vancouver International Airport.
March 9, 2011
|Enforcement and Removal
On Tuesday, U.S. ICE began using a federal information-sharing capability in Benton, Black Hawk, Johnson, Linn and Woodbury counties that helps federal immigration officials use biometrics to identify aliens, both lawfully and unlawfully present in the United States who are booked into local law enforcement's custody for a crime.
March 9, 2011
|Document and Benefit Fraud
A federal grand jury in Chattanooga returned a two-count indictment on Tuesday against six individuals, including one Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) employee, for conspiring to unlawfully produce Tennessee driver's licenses.
March 9, 2011
|Financial Crimes
Following a weeklong trial, a federal grand jury Wednesday convicted a Nigerian couple employed by a Bay Area mortgage broker of wire fraud and immigration fraud stemming from their role in a multi-million dollar fraud scheme uncovered by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations and the Internal Revenue Service.
March 8, 2011
|Narcotics
U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection's (CBP) Office of Field Operations interdicted a large drug smuggling attempt on Monday - seizing more than 11,000 pounds of marijuana in Nogales, Ariz.
March 8, 2011
|Labor Exploitation
A wreath manufacturing company has become the first business in Maine to sign an agreement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to strengthen hiring practices and to combat the unlawful employment of illegal aliens.
March 8, 2011
|Labor Exploitation
The president of a Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., furniture manufacturing business was sentenced Monday to 10 months in federal prison on two criminal counts after a probe by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) revealed the company hired unauthorized alien workers.
March 7, 2011
|Contraband
Yuri Izurieta, 41, Anneri Izurieta, 46, and Naver Trading Corp., were charged on Friday with conspiracy to smuggle goods - dairy products that were at times contaminated with harmful bacteria - into the United States, following an investigation by U.S. ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
March 7, 2011
|Child Exploitation
James Eddy, 34, of Chesapeake, Va., pleaded guilty today to one count of possession of child pornography.
March 7, 2011
|Child Exploitation
Shawn Marshal Christiansen, 36, of Great Bend, Kan., is charged with one count of producing and one count of possessing child pornography. The crimes allegedly occurred from April 27, 2009 to Jan. 8, 2010 in Great Bend.
March 7, 2011
|Financial Crimes
A Florida man was sentenced on Friday to five years and three months in federal prison for leading a Medicare fraud ring that submitted more than $9 million in false and fraudulent Medicare claims for alleged infusion-therapy services.
March 7, 2011
|Operational
Starting today, users can access information via ICE's mobile website by visiting http://m.ice.gov. The new site creates a better user experience for individuals accessing ICE.gov from portable, handheld devices like the smartphones and tablets.
March 6, 2011
|Firearms, Ammunition and Explosives
Ramadan Rama, 40, a resident of Fayetteville, N.C., pled guilty in federal court Monday to firearms trafficking charges, including failure to notify a common carrier of a firearm and exporting defense articles without a license.
March 4, 2011
|Financial Crimes
Special agents with U. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) on Friday returned 1,500 dollars to to a 69-year-old Wabash, Ind., woman who was the victim of telemarketing con artists operating from Canada.
March 4, 2011
|Financial Crimes
The final passenger aboard a Mexico-bound bus pleaded guilty on Friday to failing to declare the 3 million dollars in U.S. currency that was discovered in on-board air mattresses. On Sept. 26, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers and ICE HSI agents stopped a southbound commercial passenger bus at the Hidalgo Port of Entry, Texas...
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