News Releases and Statements

Between December 2008 and August 2011, Warren Scott Kennell produced images of child pornography involving two minor victims, members of an indigenous tribe in the Amazon where Kennell was establishing a church. Further forensic examination of Kennell's external hard drive showed more than 940 images of child pornography.

Three Charlottesville residents accused of producing tens of thousands of fake driver's licenses and shipping them across the country pleaded guilty Wednesday morning following an investigation by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Washington, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service and the Virginia State Police.

Pecoraro admitted he wrote checks for unauthorized cash withdrawals for personal use.

Ralph Camacho-Rios was arrested at his place of residence after an HSI investigation revealed he possessed child pornography on his home computer.

In July 2011, Rene Ulises Quinteros Gaitan prostituted a 16-year-old juvenile female, first in Frederick, Md., and then in Richmond, Va. Gaitan transported the juvenile victim to Prince George's County, where he again prostituted her.

William Lee Pait Jr., 46, of Bladenboro, had engaged in a long-term pattern of conduct in which he would pose as a teenage boy and attempt to seduce girls between the ages of 12 and 15.

Investigators executed search warrants for several computers at Gregorio Evaristo Sarabia-Garcia's apartment and found pornographic photographs of the defendant's 7-year-old relative, as well as more than 150 additional images of child pornography which Sarabia-Garcia had downloaded from the Internet.

Juan Antonio Villarreal, 53, of Houston, pleaded guilty Feb. 19 before U.S. District Judge Vanessa Gilmore, who sentenced him to 120 and 240 months for the possession and distribution convictions, respectively.

In addition to the prison term, the sentencing judge ordered Jeffrey Lee Jordan, 57, to pay $20,000 in restitution.

Prior to March 2010, Jones met co-conspirator John Blaes, 50, also of Parkville, online and became involved in a sexual relationship involving bondage, discipline, sadism and masochism (BDSM). Jones subsequently moved into Blaes' Parkville home. Blaes used the Internet to recruit other women and girls into the BDSM lifestyle.

Stephen Wayne Sudduth, 38, of Sealy, Texas, has been in custody where he will remain pending his sentencing hearing.

ICE officers transferred both men into Salvadoran law enforcement custody.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) returned a Hojo currency plate, looted from the Deoksu Palace in Seoul during the Korean War, to the government of South Korea during a repatriation ceremony.

Stephen Carpenter, 33, of Slaton, Texas, is currently on bond. He faces a maximum statutory penalty of 10 years in federal prison, a $250,000 fine and a lifetime of supervised release.

Tony Lasiter allegedly used his cell phone to take nude photos of a 4-year-old girl while she was in the bathtub, and again while she was lying in a bed with someone touching her in a sexual manner. Lasiter also allegedly downloaded the photos to his laptop computer and then transferred the files to a memory card.

Arsalan Shemirani has been sentenced to 48 months in prison for conspiracy to illegally export more than 3,000 electronic components from the United States to Iran through Hong Kong, following an investigation by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in Washington, D.C.

Jose Francisco Madrigal, 43, of Plainview, Texas, is currently on bond. He faces a statutory penalty of not less than 15 years or more than 30 years in federal prison, a $250,000 fine and up to a lifetime of supervised release.

GuildMaster Inc., based in Springfield, Mo., and represented in court by its company president, Stephen Crowder, must forfeit 5,585 lamps that were seized by CBP, valued at $1,831,918, and serve a five-year term of probation.

Pricilio Garcia-Jimenez, 40, a Mexican national who lived in Farmington, N.M., will be sentenced to nine years in federal prison under the terms of his plea agreement. He was in the United States without authorization at the time of his arrest.

In October 2012, Alberto Feliz Garcia pleaded guilty to being a previously convicted felon in possession of a firearm, being an alien in possession of a firearm, passport fraud, and possession with intent to distribute heroin.

Gus Travis Poole Jr., 28, was sentenced to 117 months in prison Aug. 29. He has prior felony convictions for robbery with a dangerous weapon and burglary.

Jason C. Grossman, 31, of Westerville, Ohio, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to one count of receipt of child pornography, a crime punishable by at least five years and up to 20 years in prison.

Clay C. Keys, a registered sexual offender in the state of Florida, is charged with distribution and possession of child pornography. He is also charged with being a convicted felon in possession of ammunition.

From May 29 through mid-October 2011, Paul Harvilicz engaged in a series of communications using Yahoo! messaging and email with a person he believed to be a 15-year-old girl. In fact, Harvilicz was actually communicating with a law enforcement officer in Kentucky.

Manamadurai Somalingam admitted that from March 2011 through May 2012, while he was the owner of a school called PC Tech Learning with campuses in Iselin and Jersey City, he conspired to obtain student visas for foreign citizens who were not eligible for the visas.