News Releases and Statements
News Releases and Statements
Daniel Ricardo Barrientos had communicated via email, text and telephone conversations with an undercover officer who portrayed herself as a single mother of two minor daughters who was interested in having her children engage in sexual acts with an adult. Barrientos responded with his desire to perform various sexual acts with the girls.
Christopher Anthony Quinn was sentenced to 72 months in prison and 15 years of supervised release. He will also forfeit the laptop computers and thumb drives he used to download, store and distribute child pornography.
Sunil Jiwat Mirwani, 39, and his corporation, M Trade Inc. are scheduled to be sentenced Sept. 9 in federal court.
With the NBA Finals and Stanley Cup Playoffs in full swing, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) warned the public Tuesday to beware of purchasing counterfeit sports apparel and tickets to playoff games.
Robert Poe III from Kansas City, Kan., pleaded guilty Feb. 19 and was sentenced to 235 months in federal prison on three counts of traveling from Kansas to Missouri to engage in sex acts with a child.
Alfonso Casarez, a former senior technician in the California Department of Motor Vehicles' (DMV) Fresno office, has been sentenced to five years and one month in prison for his role in two schemes to sell official California driver's licenses to ineligible individuals.
Xiang Li, a Chinese national, was sentenced to 144 months in federal prison June 11 for conspiracy to commit wire fraud and criminal copyright infringement. Li operated a website used to distribute more than $100 million worth of pirated software around the world.
Aaron Charles Lustfeldt, 27, of Big Spring, Texas, faces a maximum statutory penalty of not less than five years or more than 20 years in federal prison.
Paul David Cardwell, with other co-conspirators, allegedly defrauded a Wyoming hospital of about $850,000 and traveled to Thailand to purchase real estate with the proceeds. HSI Bangkok began an investigation into Cardwell's activities in Thailand.
Lindsey Joe Brown II, 40, was also sentenced to serve five years of supervised release after he completes his prison sentence.
From 2005 to 2007, Modanlo made false statements and concealed information.
Idriss Abdelrahman was repatriated to Mali aboard a commercial aircraft under escort by ERO officers and turned over to Malian authorities at Bamako-Senou International Airport in Bamako, Mali, Wednesday morning.
O'Brain J. Lynch is believed to be the first Jamaican national charged in the United States for this type of fraud. A Jamaican lottery scheme is a form of mass-marketing fraud in which potential victims are led to believe they won an international multi-million dollar lottery and are informed they must pay an advance fee to get the prize.
Nedal Faisal Ahmad fraudulently obtained U.S. Treasury checks and reloadable debit cards that contained tax refunds that did not belong to him. Ahmad cashed several fraudulent U.S. Treasury checks and swiped the reloadable debit cards at his business, Al-Wafaa Trading.
"In late September or early October 2012, Brittanie S. Brattain and Deundrea R. Miller met female minor Jane Doe and agreed to take pictures of Jane Doe to post ads for ""dates"" on Backpage, a classified advertising website, which would be used for commercial sex acts."
John David Boyle was arrested by special agents with ICE's HSI after investigators determined that he was distributing child pornography over the Internet. Based on the evidence obtained in this case, authorities believe there may be unknown victims of child molestation by Boyle.
Naveed Sheikh was sentenced to 87 months in prison for conspiring to and infringing copyrights by illegally reproducing and distributing more than 1,000 copyrighted commercial software programs with a total value of more than $4 million.
In late 2012, a minor female (Jane Doe) began a dating relationship with Jacob Ray Albarado and ran away from her home to his apartment in Big Spring. Albarado and Jane Doe agreed to produce a video depicting the two of them engaged in sexually explicit conduct.
Agents with ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) arrested 18 gang members and associates during a three-day operation this week in Chicago, Cicero and Berwyn. This is the latest local effort in an ongoing national HSI initiative to target transnational gang members.
In the first sexual extortion case ever prosecuted in the District of Puerto Rico, Jimmy Caraballo-Colon was arrested Tuesday in Caguas and charged with coercing a female minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing child pornography.
Craig Jerome Gadley Jr., 23, pleaded guilty to one count of sex trafficking a minor. Joshua Alexander Smith, 25, pleaded guilty to one count of sex trafficking by force, fraud and coercion. Both men are from Mansfield, Texas.
Mark Robert Perry of West Fargo was sentenced on one count of possessing materials involving the sexual exploitation of minors. This case came to the attention of law enforcement on March 6, 2012, after authorities discovered that Perry was trading child pornography files online.
While U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is not yet a household name, there are more and more instances of ICE onscreen.
These actions are part of the Treasury Department's ongoing efforts to target the leadership of global criminal organizations, including MS-13.
Moises Roman-Quintero, a convicted felon and fugitive wanted on murder charges by the Puerto Rico Police Department, was arrested by ICE Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents assigned to Operation Caribbean Resilience at Antulio Lopez Public Housing.
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