News Releases and Statements

Last week, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents executed five federal search warrants in an intellectual property rights investigation related to counterfeit goods in Tampa.

A Virginia painting company, Thesis Painting, is partnering with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) IMAGE program, or ICE Mutual Agreement between Government and Employers, to reduce fraud and the hiring of illegal workers.

Barratt Eni of Little Rock, Ark., pleaded guilty Thursday to possession of more than 500 grams of cocaine with the intent to distribute, following an investigation by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Metropolitan Bureau of Investigation (MBI). On July 9, federal agents contacted Eni at the Orlando International Airport.

Doyce Dean Griffis of Starke, Fla., was indicted on child pornography charges Thursday, following an investigation by the Bradford County Sheriff's Office, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).

Osvaldo A. Mercado of Gainesville, Va. was indicted by a federal grand jury for defrauding Virginia banks of nearly $3.4 million in fraudulent loans following an investigation by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in Washington, D.C. along with FBI's Washington Field Office and the FDIC Office of Inspector General.

John E. Widdows, 72, of Cumberland, Md., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Benson Everett Legg. Widdows must also register as a sex offender in the place where he resides, where he is an employee, and where he is a student, under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA).

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced today that 8,893 Mexican citizens agreed to voluntarily return to their hometowns in the interior of Mexico by participating in the Mexican Interior Repatriation Program (MIRP), a bilaterally beneficial voluntary program that ensures the safe and swift return of Mexican nationals found..

Shawn Joseph McCormack, of Black Forest, Colo., is accused of sexually exploiting the child. The indictment is the result of an extensive investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents in Bakersfield; Colorado Springs, Colo.; and Boston, along with the Bakersfield and Colorado Springs police departments.

Richard Lee Lewis admitted that while he lived in Slaton he used peer-to-peer file-sharing programs to download images and videos to his computer, including child pornography, according to documents filed in the case.

"Eric Antwan Bell, a former fugitive on ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) list of most wanted criminals that was featured in June on the television show ""America's Most Wanted"", was indicted Thursday on four counts of conspiracy to entice a minor to engage in a commercial sex act, four counts of enticing a minor to engage.."

Brandon Davis was sentenced Thursday to 40 years in prison with no parole for producing and possessing child pornography, following an investigation by U.S. ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Rogers Police Department, Ark. Davis's wife accidently found a video of Davis engaged in sexual activity with a minor on his cell phone...

Brad Hoggard, 44, of Coleman, Mich., was indicted by a federal grand jury in November 2010 on charges of receiving child pornography. He pleaded guilty to the charges in September.

An electrical contracting corporation with field offices throughout the country, including San Diego, is partnering with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) to reduce fraud and the hiring of illegal workers.

Late Wednesday, a multi-agency federal law enforcement team seized 165 kilograms (363.8 pounds) of cocaine from inside a green single engine fiberglass vessel, which attempted to illegally enter the western coast of the island.

An upstate New York woman who was convicted of conspiring to import ecstasy, was sentenced to time served, nine months home detention on electronic monitoring and three years of supervised release.

A Somali national, pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute cathinone, which is found in fresh khat leaves, following an investigation by for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in Washington, D.C.

Four southwest Missouri men were indicted by a federal grand jury Wednesday in separate and unrelated cases of child exploitation as a result of investigations conducted by ICE Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).

As part of the Obama administration's ongoing commitment to prioritizing the removal of criminal aliens and egregious immigration law violators, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) today announced the results of a seven-day national 'Cross Check' enforcement operation-which led to the arrest of more than 2,900 convicted criminal aliens.

They gathered together in plain clothes, shared their strategy for the evening and headed off in separate directions. They were agents with ICE Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). Their mission? To identify and confiscate counterfeit goods at a Washington Nationals game in Washington, D.C.

Scott Brandon Heath, 34, of Jacksonville, Florida, pleaded guilty in federal court to possessing images of child pornography on his cellular telephone, following an investigation conducted by ICE Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the U.S. Probation Office. Forensic analysis revealed his cellular telephone contained about 5,147 images...

Moreno was deported from the United States to his native Mexico in May 1994, following a federal conviction for distribution of cocaine. ICE HSI investigators believe Moreno illegally re-entered the U.S. sometime in February 2000, without first obtaining the consent of the Department of Justice or the Department of Homeland Security to reapply fo

Daniel G. Devoe was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for coercion and enticement of a minor to engage in sexual activity, following an investigation by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). Devoe met an 11-year-old minor, who resides in Clearwater, Fla., on a social networking website. Devoe sent sexually explicit photographs...

The last of 27 individuals arrested on federal charges pleaded guilty to participating in a bank fraud scheme that used computer software known as 'Zeus Trojan' to steal millions of dollars from U.S. bank accounts.

Diego Cortez-Angel, a Mexican national residing in Fayetteville, Ark., was sentenced on Sept. 26 to 60 months in prison for his role in a racketeering conspiracy. He was the leader of an Arkansas cell of a highly sophisticated and violent fraudulent document trafficking organization based in Mexico, with cells in 19 cities and 11 states...