News Releases and Statements

Terrence John McGovern, Jr., 62, formerly of Burlingame, Calif., was taken into custody Thursday night by agents with ICE's HSI at LAX as he stepped off a commercial flight arriving from Mexico City.

Ever Enrique Medina, a/k/a "Ever Enrique Andrade" and "Scorpion," 25, an El Salvadoran native living in Columbia, Md., was sentenced to 30 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release by U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar.

Raymond Dean Smith, a 42-year-old resident of Helena, Mont., was sentenced on Friday to 30 years in federal prison after he had pleaded guilty to sexually exploiting children.

A federal grand jury in Lubbock, Texas, returned a three-count indictment Wednesday charging Charles Linwood Heard with various federal child sexual exploitation offenses. Heard attempted to entice an individual via text message and email whom he believed to be an under-age boy. It was actually an undercover law enforcement officer.

According to U.S. Attorney Peter J. Smith, Middle District of Pennsylvania, a federal grand jury indicted Michael Savageau, 30, of Lewisberry, Pa., for possession of child pornography. The indictment was sealed pending Savageau?

Lawrence Ellrick, 35, of Ft. Leonard Wood, pleaded guilty Dec. 15 before U.S. District Judge Richard E. Dorr to the charge contained in a Sept. 28 federal indictment. Ellrick remains in federal custody pending a sentencing hearing.

Four South Texas residents were sentenced on Thursday to federal prison for conspiracy to harbor illegal aliens in a case involving three aliens that were struck and killed by an oncoming vehicle on a dark road in Duval County, Texas on June 28, 2011 when they were going to get food and water.

Agents with ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) arrested Chicago Bears football player Samuel George Hurd III of Lake Forest, Ill., Wednesday night on a criminal complaint charging conspiracy to distribute cocaine.

Jay Edward Glenewinkel was sentenced Wednesday to more than 18 years in federal prison for possessing, receiving and distributing child pornography, as a result of an ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) investigation that found 611 videos and 1,352 images of child pornography on his computers.

Michael James Sheets of Kansas City was sentenced to more than 12 years in federal prison on Wednesday for receiving child pornography as the result of an investigation conducted by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).

Andrew Silcox pleaded guilty on Thursday for illegally exporting military components. He admitted that he was selling Naval Radar Control Unit parts without a required State Department license to export, thinking he was dealing with a broker for a buyer in the United Arab Emirates. He was really dealing with an undercover ICE HSI agent.

Mario Alberto Esparza-Rodriguez, a Mexican national who had been posing as his U.S. citizen cousin, was indicted Wednesday and had his pickup truck seized as part of an investigation conducted by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Kansas Department of Revenue into document fraud and identity theft.

A Gallatin, Tenn., man was sentenced to more than 16 years in prison on Dec. 13 for receipt, possession and distribution of child pornography following an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the ICE HSI Attache Office in Toronto and the Toronto Police Service.

Government officials announced today that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) National Bulk Cash Smuggling Center (BCSC) has expanded its operations center to enhance efforts to combat bulk cash smuggling.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), working jointly with the U.S. Marshals, the Puerto Rico Police Department (PRPD) and the Dominican Republic National Police (DRNP), arrested one of the most notorious drug traffickers Friday in the Caribbean Basin in the Dominican Republic.

An immigration detainee was sentenced to two years and four months in federal prison on Monday for assaulting and obstructing a federal officer. The sentence was announced by U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson, Southern District of Texas.

Michael Wieland of Hazen, N.D., pleaded guilty in federal court Monday to two charges of possessing materials and five charges of receiving materials involving minors being sexually exploited.

A 34-year-old man pleaded guilty on Friday to 108 counts of production and one count of possession of child pornography following an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Puerto Rico Crimes Against Children Task Force (PRCACTF).

"Scott Alan Stuart, a Blaine, Wash., man convicted on federal wire fraud and tax charges for his role in a ""Nigerian inheritance"" fraud scheme, was sentenced Friday to five years in prison following a probe by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI). "

Timothy Brehmer of Broadalbin, N.Y., has been charged with possession of child pornography as the result of an investigation being conducted by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).

Tommie Rand Pierce pleaded guilty Monday to impersonating a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer, following an investigation by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). Pierce is accused of impersonating an ICE officer in order to extract payments from immigration applicants seeking permission to remain in the United States.

Mary Ann Smith was sentenced to six years in prison Friday after pleading guilty in June to two counts of mail and wire fraud. Smith had contacted victims via email describing a nonexistent student visa program in which the U.S. government supposedly exchanged students with foreign countries on a one-for-one basis.

A South Texas resident was sentenced to seven years in federal prison Friday for his role in an illegal firearms straw-purchasing conspiracy. The investigation was conducted jointly by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).

ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents arrested Hilton Cordero-Rosario, the former commissioner of the San Juan Police Department, on production and possession of child pornography Wednesday. Later that day, a federal grand jury returned a 22-count indictment against Cordero-Rosario.