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Five 'Sur-13'gang members from Georgia were sentenced Monday to lengthy federal prison terms after being arrested for carjacking and firearms offenses by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations.

Two Mexican nationals pleaded guilty in federal court on Thursday to charges of conspiring to commit commercial sex trafficking of Mexican women, following an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).

Shaoxiong Zhou, 42, and Shaoxia Huang, 33, both of Shantou, Guangdong, China, pleaded guilty to one count each of trafficking in counterfeit goods. Zhou pleaded guilty on Aug. 5, 2011, and Huang pleaded guilty on Aug. 3, 2011

Jesse Osmun, 31, of Milford, Conn., was charged in a federal criminal complaint with traveling from the United States to South Africa to engage in illicit sexual conduct with multiple children.

Scott O. Callahan was sentenced Friday to 17.5 years in federal prison for receipt of child pornography, following an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).

The theft of so-called intellectual property - creative expressions like trade secrets, proprietary products and parts, literature, music, and films - comes at a high price.

Rutilio Cabrera-Flores, 30, formerly of New Britain, Conn., was sentenced Thursday to 30 months in jail followed by two years of supervised release for illegally re-entering the United States following his deportation in a case investigated by U.S. ICE's Enforcement Removal Operations (ERO).

Cipriano Diaz-Galiana, a Mexican national with multiple felony convictions and seven previous removals was sentenced in federal court for re-entering the United States after deportation after an investigation conducted by U.S. ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). At the time of his arrest, he had at his residence, seven firearms...

Four convicted criminal aliens pleaded guilty in federal district court in Atlanta on Wednesday to bribing a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) employee to alter their reporting requirements and criminal histories.

The agents arrested a pawn shop manager and five employees and seized thousands of rounds of high-capacity firearm magazines.

Subhash Nathani of Noida, India, the last of five defendants involved in smuggling large quantities of ephedrine from India into the United States, was sentenced in federal court on Thursday to 54 months in prison as a result of an investigation by by U.S. ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

Harold Love Springer of Wilmington, Del. was identified during an online investigation into a computer network devoted to trading images of child pornography. This case was investigated by U.S. ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). An undercover HSI agent observed approximately 2,000 files depicting child pornography that Springer...

Darrick C. Boroczk, who formerly lived in an area suburb before his 2009 arrest, was sentenced to 70 years in federal prison for producing and possessing child pornography that he created while sexually molesting two children under 5-years-old. Boroczk admitted that between 2006 and 2009, he sexually abused a girl between 3 and 5 years old.

Steven Demink was sentenced to life in prison for his role in the sexual exploitation of several children around the country following an investigation by U.S. ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). Demink, relying on his persona Dalton St. Clair's alleged psychological training, convinced 7 mothers to commit sexual acts on their children.

Three indictments and one complaint were unsealed on Wednesday charging 72 individuals with participating in an international criminal network dedicated to sexually abusing children, and producing and disseminating child pornography.

Justin Coleman, 35, of Falls Church, Va., was arrested on on April 6, 2011 on receipt of child pornography charges. A federal grand jury indicted Coleman on June 16, 2011 on six child pornography related charges.

Andrew Vincent O'Donnell was sentenced earlier this week to serve three years in federal prison on charges including violating the Arms Export Control Act, in a case investigated by U.S. ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). O'Donnell had operated an eBay online store through which he sold various gun parts and accessories...

George Valvanis, a New Hampshire man who managed several Dunkin' Donuts stores in Portland, Maine was sentenced in federal court for hiring illegal aliens in a case investigated by U.S. ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). According to court records, Valvanis knowingly employed illegal aliens to work in his stores between 2001 and 2009.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has officially selected the long-time acting special agent in charge of ICE Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in Atlanta to officially assume command as the top investigator in Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina.

Carl Skow, 34, of Marietta, Ga., was indicted Aug. 2 for attempting to obtain a minor for the purpose of engaging in a commercial sex act, enticement of a minor to engage in sexual activity, and possession of child pornography. Skow previously had an initial appearance on a criminal complaint and is currently in custody pending trial.

Edk Kenit and Choimina Lukas, a Micronesian couple living in Longview, Wash., pleaded guilty on Tuesday to document servitude in connection with an investigation involving U.S. ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). The investigation revealed that the pair compelled the labor of an 18-year-old Micronesian woman.

A special agent with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) office in Tampa was named the Gang Investigator of the Year today by the Florida Gang Investigators Association.

A Nantucket, Mass., resident, was sentenced today in federal court on multiple counts of conspiracy, smuggling, and making false statements to federal agents relating to the illegal importation of sperm whale ivory which is used in the trade.

John Whitley Richards, 40, of Clovis, Calif., a former substitute teacher and girls' softball coach at Fresno High School, surrendered to authorities Monday. The second Fresno-area man indicted on child pornography charges is Joshua B. Werner, 26, of Fresno, Calif. Werner was charged July 28 with one count of receiving and sharing images of child pornography.