News Releases and Statements
News Releases and Statements
Gary Hardeman, a previously convicted sex offender, faces a minimum sentence of 10 years in federal prison after pleading guilty Thursday to a charge resulting from a probe by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) that revealed he traveled to Mexico to engage in sexual acts with a 13-year-old girl.
Anthony Maurice Cottle, a former Baltimore County firefighter, was sentenced Thursday to 195 months in prison for sexual exploitation of a minor to produce child pornography and possession of child pornography. Cottle sexually abused two minor males to produce visual depictions of the abuse.
Joseph Ortiz, a Bay Area gang member, has pleaded guilty to 25 federal charges, including three counts of racketeering murder, stemming from a long-term probe by ICE's HSI and several local law enforcement agencies.
Shelton Thomas Bell was indicted Thursday with conspiring and attempting to provide material support to terrorists. This case was investigated by the FBI's Jacksonville Joint Terrorism Task Force, a multi-agency task force comprised of full-time personnel from several law enforcement agencies, including ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
Vitali Tsishuk, a Belarus national with federal convictions for conspiracy to export defense articles without a license, conspiracy to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and conspiracy to launder monetary instruments, was deported Wednesday by ICE's Enforcement Removal Operations (ERO).
A former New York Police Department officer, Miguel A. Rodriguez, pleaded guilty Tuesday to conning immigrants seeking driver's licenses and immigration assistance out of thousands of dollars while serving as a police officer and a liaison to the Latino community in the Village of Wappingers Falls.
A Pittsburgh resident, David Michael Spaid, was sentenced Wednesday to 24 months in prison for transporting stolen nickel from Pennsylvania to Texas. The investigation was conducted by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
Two Virginia cigarette retail store owners were each sentenced Friday to 24 months for conspiring to structure more than $10 million in cash transactions for the purpose of preventing banking institutions from reporting those transactions to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
The indictment charges that on Feb. 28, 2007, Ramon Miguel Cerros-Cruz and Alexsi Lopez robbed a Hyattsville, Maryland brothel apartment, armed with knives, and using force and violence. During the robbery, they allegedly bound one of the employees, raped another employee and murdered a third person.
Lisa Renze of Connellsville, Pa., was arrested and charged Monday with employing, using, persuading, inducing, enticing, and coercing a minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing a visual depiction of such conduct.
A Greensboro, N.C., man, Muhaned Abbas Mohamed, was sentenced Tuesday to 24 months in prison for conspiracy to smuggle shotguns from the United States and to making a false and fictitious statement in connection with the acquisition of a firearm from a licensed dealer.
After a four-week trial, a federal jury has convicted four metropolitan Atlanta gang members of committing multiple murders, attempted murders, armed robberies and firearms offenses in Gwinnett and DeKalb counties.
Michael Dale Irwin pleaded guilty Tuesday to the sexual exploitation of a minor to produce child pornography. A witness reported to Maryland State Police that Irwin had sent an image to her cellular phone documenting his sexual abuse of a prepubescent minor female.
Ioseb Kharabadze, a Georgian national convicted of conspiring to traffic firearms in 2009, was deported Friday by officers with ICE's Enforcement Removal Operations (ERO) on a flight to Georgia and turned over to Georgian officials.
A federal judge sentenced Beatrice Munyenyezi Monday on two counts of procuring citizenship unlawfully. Evidence at trial demonstrated that Munyenyezi participated, aided and abetted in the persecution and murder of Tutsi people during the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
James Carney Ritterhoff, a former police officer who was employed as an armed money courier in Albuquerque when he was arrested in June 2011, was sentenced Monday to 7 1/2 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to child pornography charges.
Michael Brian Clair, 33, admitted that between July 2012 and January 2013, he coerced two prepubescent minors to engage in sexually explicit conduct, for the purpose of producing visual depictions of that conduct, and transported those images from Arizona to Idaho in late December.
GuildMaster, Inc., of Springfield, Mo., pleaded guilty to the felony offense of trafficking in goods with counterfeit marks. Thousands of lamps imported by GuildMaster from China bore counterfeit Underwriters Laboratories (UL) labels.
Jeffrey Todd Howard, 34, was sentenced to 120 months in federal prison by U.S. District Judge John D. Rainey. Howard will also be required to serve 10 years of supervised release following completion of the prison term, during which time he will be required to comply with numerous conditions of release designed to limit his contact with children. Howard was convicted after a two-day bench trial before Judge Rainey April 4.
Peter Picone, 40, of Methuen, has been charged with importing counterfeit semiconductors from China for sale in the United States.
According to court documents, law enforcement seized more than 150 grams of cocaine.
Twenty-four of the 61 victims identified during the Operation iGuardian were engaging online with strangers who sexually exploited them.
Robert Arthur Brewster, 41, of Clifton, Colo., pleaded guilty July 10 before U.S. District Judge R. Brooke Jackson to producing child pornography. Brewster appeared at the change of plea hearing in custody.
Christopher Aubrey Harlan used his computer, as well as his roommate's computer for a brief time, to access child pornography on various websites. He used those computers, as well as his cellphone, to send and receive numerous images of child pornography.
Douglas Teeter, 37, will also serve 15 years of supervised release following the completion of his federal prison sentence.
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