News Releases and Statements

Brandon Keith Jones was sentenced Thursday to 35 years in state prison after pleading guilty to child molestation charges filed in Maricopa County, in a case linked to child pornography investigations in Boston and the Netherlands.

"Javier Hernandez-Ramirez and Edgardo Alvarez-Mendivil, two Mexican ""border bandits"" caught carrying an assault rifle in the mountains of southern Arizona, were each sentenced to five years in federal prison Tuesday on charges stemming from a probe by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Nogales with assistance from the U.S. Border Patrol..."

On March 27 a federal grand jury indicted three individuals in connection with a bank fraud scheme to use the personal identifying information of individuals to fraudulently obtain money and property, following an investigation by ICE HSI, the Wicomico County Sheriff's Office, the IRS and the SSA.

A Honduran man living in the United States on a student visa, Selvan Otomon Zuniga-Arita, will serve 10 years in federal prison after he pleaded guilty Tuesday to receiving child pornography. This investigation was conducted by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) with the assistance of San Antonio Police Department, Midland College...

With 71 offices in 47 countries, many U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents serve in dangerous locations, often exposing themselves to a variety of threats.

A principal component of the campaign is to alert DMV and DR employees, law enforcement and the public about fraud schemes perpetrated at DMV facilities. By adding education and outreach components, ICE is proactively taking steps to deter the crime from happening, encouraging people to report the crime, and developing strong partnerships.

An upstate New York man who was previously convicted of possession of child pornography, was sentenced to 24 months in prison. The sentence is the result of an investigation conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).

Tricia Griffith, 37, formerly of Niagara Falls, N.Y., admitted taking her child from a residence in Niagara Falls to Jamaica in June 2010. The defendant left the area without the knowledge of the child's father and in violation of a court order of custody issued previously by a Niagara County Supreme Court judge.

Porfil-Colon was charged on a second indictment for concealing documents and other objects belonging to Tania de Jesus-Gomez, with the intent to impair their integrity, obstruct, influence or impede an official proceeding.

A Mexican national was sentenced Monday to 42 months in federal prison for illegally reentering the United States after being deported, and for violating the conditions of his supervised release, stemming from a previous federal conviction in 2006 for illegally reentering the United States after deportation.

A Brazilian woman was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison Thursday for her participation in a conspiracy to commit alien smuggling and worker visa fraud.

Jonathan DeLaura, who is a registered sex offender, is charged with distributing child pornography over the Internet, including sending obscene material to a 15-year-old boy through an Internet chat site.

Eight Phoenix-area residents were indicted Wednesday by a federal grand jury for their involvement in an elaborate passport and Social Security fraud ring designed to conceal the true identities of Mexican nationals in order to shield them from detection by U.S. immigration authorities.

Carlos Napoleon Medina-Garay, a former El Salvadoran military officer who is alleged to have committed human rights violations by the United Nations (UN), was removed from the United States by ICE's Enforcement Removal Operations (ERO) officers.

Four individuals, including a husband and wife, have been arrested and charged in connection with allegedly running a sophisticated human trafficking operation in and around the Boston area. These arrests are the first under a new human trafficking law in Massachusetts, which went into effect Feb. 19, 2012.

Two leaders of a Houston-based alien smuggling organization and seven of their associates were sentenced Tuesday to federal prison for their roles in an alien smuggling operation that resulted in the death of an illegal alien. The investigation was led by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).

Isaias Goncalves Dos Santos, a Brazilian national residing in Bridgeport, CT who was wanted in his home country for his involvement in a double homicide including a mayor of a Brazilian city, was turned over to Brazilian law enforcement authorities this morning in Rio De Janeiro.

David Scott Burton, an Alabama man who worked as an X-ray technician at a local children's hospital, was sentenced Thursday to serve 70 months in federal prison for possession of child pornography. The sentencing follows an investigation by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the Alabama Internet Crimes against Children Task Force...

Dale Pearce, 53, of Cheshire, Conn., distributed child pornography by email March 8, 2009. Additionally, he distributed child pornography during an online chat Aug. 7, 2009.

Donald Murray Gallaher of Black Diamond, Alberta, Canada has been sentenced to one year in federal prison after pleading guilty to alien smuggling as the result of an investigation conducted by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).

Javier Ojeda-Leon, 27, of Ashburn, Va., was removed Thursday, Mar. 22, from Dulles International Airport via commercial carrier.

Dieter David Palmer, 42, was identified as a person who purchased a membership to child pornography websites that were under investigation. The investigation began as a Department of Justice operation (Operation Flicker) targeting a criminal organization operating multiple commercial child pornography websites.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has announced that Andrew McLees has been selected to assume command as the agency's top investigator in New Jersey.

The indictment alleges that Patrick Mahoney arranged online a sexual encounter with an undercover officer whom he thought was a 15-year-old girl. He allegedly intended to photograph the encounter with his cell phone.