News Releases and Statements
News Releases and Statements
"A Mexican national believed to be one of the leaders of the ""Los Gueros"" international drug organization appeared in federal court in Brooklyn, N.Y., Monday to face drug trafficking charges, following an investigation by federal law enforcement agencies including U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI)."
Agents with U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) on Friday discovered inside a tractor trailer more than 8,000 pounds of marijuana with an estimated street value of $6.6 million.
7 Sui Dynasty Pottery Horses with Riders, A.D. 581-618, Among Artifacts Returned to China.
Jonathan Gonzalez, of Lake Worth, Fla., leader of the Krazy Locos criminal street gang, along with his brother Christopher Gonzalez-Chamberlain, and Itzel Campos, an associate of the gang, pleaded guilty on Friday for their roles in two homicides, two drive-by shootings, narcotics and firearms trafficking, and obstruction of justice...
According to court records, in 2004, Omar Rashaad Bey, 33, entered into what he claimed was an Islamic marriage with a 14-year old girl in Philadelphia. He did not obtain a marriage license, nor did he obtain court permission to do so, as Pennsylvania law required. He then took the girl to Egypt, where she lived with him, at times alone, while he studied.
These Draco AK-47 rifles are among weapons HSI special agents seized during the year-long investigation into a NM firearms trafficking ring.
Kenneth Eugene Haynes, 60, of Gulf Breeze, Fla., was sentenced in federal court Thursday for attempting to entice a minor female over the Internet and traveling to Alabama to engage in sexual activity with her.
Larry Pike, 40, of Balch Springs, Texas, has been in federal custody since his arrest in late August 2010 on related charges outlined in a federal criminal complaint. In addition, Pike was ordered to forfeit to the government the extensive inventory of computers and computer-related equipment that was seized during the investigation.
Richard Sinclair Pope, 53, of the United Kingdom, who was extradited from Spain earlier this year to face prosecution in this case, pleaded guilty Thursday to conspiracy to commit mail fraud and wire 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
"A citizen of Romania was sentenced today in Connecticut to 41 months of imprisonment for participating in a multistate ATM ""skimming"" scheme."
Michael James Sheets, 45, of Kansas City, Mo., pleaded guilty March 9 to the charges contained in a June 15, 2010 federal indictment.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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