News Releases and Statements

In addition, U.S. District Judge John McBryde ordered that Johnathon D. Caudill, 24, of McKinney, Texas, register as a sex offender and serve a lifetime of supervised release.

A former Kauai doctor has been sentenced to 12 years and seven months in prison on multiple counts of illegally dispensing controlled substances following a probe by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Food and Drug Administration's Office of Criminal Investigations.

An eight-count federal indictment was partially unsealed on Friday after two men were arrested for allegedly hiring illegal aliens in Winnie, Texas, to cleanup an oil spill near Marshall, Mich.

Additional child pornography charges were filed Friday against a former youth recreational soccer coach after investigators identified a second teenage girl who had been coerced into sending the defendant sexually explicit videos of herself after they met in an online chat room.

Two men pleaded guilty on Friday to conspiracy to commit hostage taking, while seven others entered guilty pleas to conspiring to harbor illegal aliens, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson, Southern District of Texas.

Edward John Ranft of Bradenton, Fla.,was sentenced to 135 months in federal prison Thursday for enticing a minor to engage in sexual activity, after an investigation by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Brevard County Sheriff's Office.

Domingo Castellon, 56, who has been in custody since his arrest in late January, faces a statutory sentence of not less than 10 years and up to 20 years in prison, a $250,000 fine and a lifetime of supervised release. Sentencing is set for June 15 before Judge McBryde.

Two Puerto Rican senior financial executives, Arturo Carrion and Juan de La Cruz, were recognized by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) with the Honoring and Recognizing Private Industry for Excellence Program (HARPE) award in a ceremony during the ninth Puerto Rican anti-money laundering symposium in San Juan.

David M. Marwell oversees 128 counties in North Texas and the state of Oklahoma.

A 58-year-old police officer, William Berrios-Cruz, was arrested by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents on Wednesday for production of child pornography based on evidence found in his home after he had allegedly sexually assaulted a minor girl after having slipped something into her drink.

Doo Young Choi, a Korean national wanted in his native country for allegedly embezzling real estate investors out of millions of dollars, was turned over to South Korean law enforcement representatives Thursday at Seoul Incheon International Airport by officers from ICE's Enforcement Removal Operations (ERO).

More than 2,500 counterfeit items valued at more than $69,000 were confiscated as the result of a joint operation by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI),the Orlando Police Department and the Orange County Sheriff's Office during the 2012 NBA All-Star Weekend in Orlando.

Jonathan D. Martin, 29, of Vincennes, Ind., was sentenced March 1 to 216 months in prison after pleading guilty to the following child pornography charges: one count of possessing sexually explicit material involving minors, 12 counts of receiving and distributing sexually explicit material involving minors, and two counts of posting a notice offering to trade sexually explicit material involving minors.

Paulo dos Santos Silva Jr. was arrested on Feb. 25 by HSI special agents without incident at the Grand Junction, Colo., airport. At the March 1 appearance, Silva waived his right to preliminary and detention hearings. The magistrate judge ordered Silva detained without bond pending resolution of his case.

Three Atlanta-area men have been convicted of armed robbery, drug trafficking and using a firearm in connection with their crimes following an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the FBI and the Gwinnett County Police Department.

Ying Wai Phillip Ng, 47, and his wife, Pui Kuen Ng, 47, allegedly helped an undercover agent (UC) cheat on the written commercial driver's license (CDL) test offered by the DMV.

A recently completed cross-border drug smuggling tunnel was shut down in Nogales, Ariz., Thursday following an investigation led by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and coordinated with the U.S. Border Patrol's Tucson Sector.

A sealed indictment was returned Jan. 25, and partially unsealed upon the arrests of the following 12 individuals: Petronilo Sanchez-Jimenez, 42, Norma Leticia Silva-Garcia, aka Norma Sanchez, aka Norma Rocha, 38, and Sandro Alvarez-Maldonado, 35, all of Edinburg, Texas; Armando Olmedo-Trevino, 47, Maria Herrera, 34, John Castillo, 31, Ricky Garibaldi, 46, Oscar Garza-Perales, 28, all of Wharton, Texas; Donna Simkins, 45, Tracy Howard, 47, Christian Russo, 39, all of Houston; and Cristobal Ochoa, 48, of Falfurrias, Texas.

An Australian man and his company have been indicted today by a federal grand jury in the District of Columbia for conspiring to export sensitive military and other technology from the United States to Iran, including components with applications in missiles, drones, torpedoes and helicopters.

During a four-day targeted enforcement operation in Connecticut and Massachusetts that ended Monday, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers arrested 44 convicted criminal aliens.

Michael Timothy Burke, 56, of Chicago, is the subject of an international warrant issued on July 9, 2010, by the Daegu District Court of the Republic of Korea. The Republic of Korea has requested that Burke be formally extradited to face charges of indecent acts through violence or intimidation against children under age 13, as contained in the Korean Criminal Act.

A local man was sentenced on Tuesday to nearly five years in federal prison, and ordered to pay $402,417 in restitution, following his June 2011 guilty plea on copyright infringement, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldana of the Northern District of Texas.

A previously convicted sex offender, Scott Brandon Heath, was sentenced Monday to 139 months in federal prison on a federal child pornography charge after two U.S. probation officers on a routine home inspection found a cell phone that contained 5,147 images of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct.

A federal grand jury has indicted Bodog Entertainment Group S.A., d/b/a/ Bodog.com, its owner and three operators for conducting an illegal sports gambling business and conspiring to commit money laundering, following an investigation led by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).

A citizen of El Salvador pleaded guilty Friday to transporting illegal aliens for profit through Mississippi following an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Mississippi Highway Patrol.