News Releases and Statements

On Sept. 26, jury found Mark Mason Alexander, aka Musa Mahmood Ahmed, 53, of Roswell, guilty of conspiracy to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.

Kordell Nesbitt, a former immigration enforcement agent with ICE's Enforcement Removal Operations (ERO), pleaded guilty Wednesday to his involvement in a conspiracy to distribute cocaine and marijuana. From May 2013 through July 2013, Nesbitt arranged for the shipment of cocaine and marijuana into the New York City-area.

Dustin Howard Muscha, 33, of Moorhead, Minn., was sentenced Jan. 8 by U.S. District Judge Ralph R. Erickson to 360 months in federal prison for sexually exploiting minors, and producing and possessing child pornography.

The investigation into the website Maksym Shynkarenko operated has led to convictions in 47 states of 600 American child pornographers.

Sergio Saenz-Amaya and his co-defendant, Manuel Adrian Aldarette, also a Mexican national illegally in the United States, were arrested on a criminal complaint in October 2012 after they engaged in a drug trafficking transaction with an HSI confidential informant.

The four principal defendants allegedly directed hundreds of SDDI applicants, including many retirees of the New York Police and Fire Departments, to lie about their psychiatric conditions in order to obtain benefits to which they were not entitled.

Pedro Felipe Rosario, a Dominican national convicted of murder in his native country, was deported Tuesday by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO).

Jordan Schoo, 34, who resided in both Nampa and Grangeville, admitted that he knowingly possessed counterfeit Idaho driver's licenses, which he used to purchase goods on credit.

The owner of a Dayton roofing company, Gregory J. Oldiges, pleaded guilty Thursday to conspiring to bring illegal aliens to work for his roofing company, and to conspiring to commit wire fraud by sending fraudulent invoices to insurance companies for work by his company.

According to the investigation, Luis Ariel Capellan Maldonado, 27, regularly procured multi-kilogram quantities of heroin from the Dominican Republic and worked with several individuals to distribute drugs in southeastern Connecticut.

Law enforcement intercepted Gerrett Conover of Woolwich Township, at the U.S. border Sept. 16, 2012, coming from Canada into New York. He was in possession of a laptop containing images of sexually exploited children.

Charles Allen Nave III had more than 300 images and 20 videos of child pornography in his possession.

Larry Michael Bollinger was a former minister who performed missionary work in Haiti. From in or about August 2009 to October 2009, Bollinger sexually molested four Haitian females between the ages of 11 and 16.

According to court documents, on Feb. 1, 2013, Alberto Morales possessed between 300 and 600 images depicting minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct.

Forensic examination of computer equipment seized from Sean Lawrence in a library and at his residence revealed he had downloaded more than 10,000 still images and 200 videos of child pornography.

Josue Rivera operated a retail merchandise business called Main Source, located in Springfield. Between April 11 and June 2012, Rivera stocked and sold counterfeit merchandise, including clothing, footwear and accessories.

Charles Ray Benavidez, an Aviation Ordnanceman Second Class at the Naval Air Station in Lemoore, is scheduled to be sentenced March 17.

William George Gray, 51, was ordered to serve seven years and three months in prison, to be followed by 10 years of supervised release, for receipt of child pornography. Assistant U.S. Attorney Brian W. Enos is prosecuting the case.

John Kuhl gave a cell phone to a female minor and coerced her to take explicit photographs of herself and send them to him. Law enforcement began investigating this incident after they learned Kuhl inappropriately touched four other minors during a boat trip in Newport.

ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) seized $723,377 in fake sports merchandise after a three-month enforcement initiative targeting counterfeit National Hockey League gear and other sportswear leading up to the 2014 NHL Winter Classic events.

U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings remanded Jose Francisco Madrigal Jr., 43, of Plainview, Texas, into custody; he had been released on bond.

As the result of the combined efforts of multiple law enforcement agencies, including ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), a South Korean national was convicted by the Korean Military Court for violations of Korean criminal laws for threatening to kill students at Hackettstown High School with an AK-47.

John Richard Rolater, 69, pleaded guilty to the charge and also agreed to surrender any and all contraband vertebrate fossils he has, which include the following fossils from China: a saber-toothed cat skull, a Feilongus fossil, an Anchiornis Huxleyi fossil and a Darwinopterus fossil.

Mario Alberto Hernandez-Huerta, 32, was transferred to the custody of representatives from the Mexican Attorney General's Office.

Lopez-Perez was last encountered Sept. 10 by U.S. Customs and Border Protection's (CBP) Border Patrol agents in Laredo.