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Beginning in December 2012 through June 2013, Jean-Elguentino Cayo sold approximately 400 names, dates of birth, and Social Security numbers belonging to other people to a confidential informant and undercover law enforcement officer in exchange for money.

Royce DeWeese, 26, of Cherry Hill, N.J., was sentenced to 108 months in prison. Following his sentence he will serve a lifetime term of supervised release.

Nader Modanlo, aka Nader Modanlou, aka Nader Modanlu, 53, was also ordered to forfeit $10 million.

According to plea documents filed in the case, Stephen Carpenter, 33, of Slaton, Texas, used a file-sharing program to search for child pornography. He downloaded and viewed many video files of children being sexually exploited.

Heriberto Pena-Salazar, 25, must also serve 15 years of supervised release and register as a sex offender.

A computer forensics analysis of computer equipment belonging to Lawrence Flack, who had previously been convicted of sexual battery against a minor, identified more than 7,500 images and videos, some portraying sadistic or masochistic conduct.

A Fox Chapel pharmacy owner, Robin W. Simon, was sentenced to 24 months of probation for smuggling and unlawfully importing the anti-cancer prescription drug Xeloda.

Leon Perry Brooks Sr. was indicted on two counts of receipt of child pornography, one count of distribution of child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography.

This fall, officers and special agents with ICE tracked down Clive Dixon, a Jamaican national who was illegally residing in Brooklyn. ICE's Enforcement Removal Operations (ERO) officers removed him late Thursday to his native country.

In addition to his 348-month prison sentence, David Anthony Baker, 35, of Howe, Okla., was also sentenced to life on supervised release.

Philip Chaohui HE, aka Philip Hope, was residing in Oakland, Calif., at the time of his arrest. He was indicted by a federal grand jury in Denver Dec. 15, 2011.

Balraj Naidu, 51, departed Dallas Dec. 16 and arrived in Singapore Wednesday under escort by ERO officers.

Siarhei Baltutski, aka Sergey Boltutskiy, 41, must also pay a $3,000 fine, $300 special assessment and serve three years of supervised release.

Mark James Williams was charged and convicted for possessing child pornography, which he attempted to delete from his computer the day before he left for a cruise to Costa Rica to smuggle cocaine.

ERO officers repatriated Volodymyr Ponomarenko, 44, via an ICE Air Operations charter flight and turned him over to authorities in Boryspil, Ukraine.

A Jamaican man, Damion St. Patrick Baston, was arrested Tuesday in New York for his role in a sex trafficking operation.

The crude, hand-dug tunnel is approximately 52 feet long and roughly two feet wide by three feet tall, with some wood shoring. It runs from the shed to a nearby underground sewage line that ultimately crosses the international boundary.

98 percent of the agency's total removals were convicted criminals, recent border crossers, illegal re-entrants or those previously removed by ICE, in line with agency's enforcement priorities.

Joel Monfort, 53, was transported via an ICE Air Operations charter aircraft, escorted by ERO officers, to the Port-au-Prince International Airport in Haiti.

Carlos Santiago Garcia posed online under the pseudonym Xavier Constatinos. He also purported to be a minor female on Facebook to lure and recruit another minor female victim to meet him to travel out of state to engage in sexual acts.

Hector Daniel Villanueva-Cortes, aka Muertito, a Honduran national residing in Hyattsville, Md., was sentenced Wednesday to 18 months in prison for illegal re-entry after having been deported from the United States.

Five men in southern Iowa were sentenced recently in separate prosecutions to nearly 44 years in prison combined for their unrelated roles in trading online child pornography.

Rudy Martinez, 40, fell under suspicion following his involvement in a violent street altercation in the Beach Flats neighborhood of Santa Cruz in July of last year. When investigators searched his residence in July 2012, they discovered methamphetamine, heroin, and cocaine, along with an assortment of scales and packaging materials.

Stephen Wayne Sudduth, 38, of Sealy, Texas, was sentenced to 360 months in federal prison by U.S. District Judge Nancy Atlas. Sudduth will receive credit for the more than three years he has been in federal custody since his arrest.

Rita Law is suspected of operating a prostitution ring out of three massage parlors in northwest Indiana.