News Releases and Statements
News Releases and Statements
Federal employees in the National Capitol Region, who have not been designated as essential for this emergency situation (Hurricane Sandy), should not report for duty on Monday, Oct. 29.
Arrests took place in the following counties: Manatee, Hillsborough, Hernando and Orange. The arrested individuals are from the following countries: Jamaica, Mexico, Haiti, Cuba and Ecuador.
"Special agents with ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) have two words for Bay Area vendors hoping to cash in on the World Series by selling counterfeit Major League Baseball (MLB) merchandise - ""you're out!"""
David Isaac Parker, of Silver Spring, Md., was sentenced today to 121 months in prison for conspiracy to import more than five kilograms of cocaine, importing cocaine and possession with intent to distribute cocaine, following an investigation led by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
Gabriel Aguilar pleaded guilty Thursday to charges of possession with intent to distribute cocaine in a case investigated by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI); the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and the Big Spring Police Department.
David Daniels, 36, pleaded guilty July 12. According to court documents, Daniels was discovered by investigators when using an online message board system where users can trade pornography and child pornography images. Investigators discovered that Daniels had been downloading and trading child pornography images on this website.
Three employees assigned to ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Intelligence Office have been honored by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Jonathan Scott Lee, 37, made his initial appearance before a federal judge Wednesday on charges of producing, distributing and possessing child pornography following a probe by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Kelso Police Department.
The indictment alleges that the scheme caused the United States to suffer a loss of at least $781,000 in unpaid customs duties and taxes.
Susan Lee Gross, a woman originally from South Korea, now of Trinidad, Colo., pleaded guilty Thursday to transporting women from other states to perform sexual services for patrons of her massage parlor in Annandale, Va.
A Colorado Springs man, Peter Robert James, was sentenced to serve 15 years in federal prison for distributing child pornography.
Three Chinese nationals from the Katy, Texas, area were taken into custody Thursday, following the return of an indictment alleging a conspiracy to harbor and induce illegal aliens to reside in the U.S, and unlawful employment at the Bamboo Village, aka New Bamboo Village restaurant.
Balvinder Singh Chadha, a former Bay Area manager for the U.S. Postal Service (USPS), was sentenced Wednesday to 51 months in prison for wire fraud and conspiring to violate the federal conflict of interest statute by orchestrating a billing scheme involving a truck leasing company he operated with his wife.
ICE returned more than 4,000 pieces of stolen and looted cultural artifacts to the government of Mexico at a repatriation ceremony today at the Consulate of Mexico in El Paso, Texas.
Rigoberto Puga-De La Rosa, a 36-year-old Mexican national wanted in his native country for murder, was removed Wednesday by ICE's Enforcement Removal Operations (ERO) officers.
Alan L. Grimmett pleaded guilty Oct. 25 to possession of child pornography, following an investigation by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). Grimmett, of Hinton, W.Va., admitted he knowingly possessed on his computer more than 600 images and videos depicting minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct.
Three men from Rio Grande City, Texas, were convicted Thursday of a large-scale drug trafficking conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute more than 1,000 kilograms of marijuana from 2003 until their arrests in June 2012.
A Taiwanese woman, Susan Yip, was sentenced Wednesday for helping obtain and export military sensitive parts for Iran, which violates the Iranian trade embargo.
ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) seized 795 counterfeit items in New Orleans Tuesday with a manufacturer's suggested retail price (MSRP) of $29,630.
The Algerian native known as the 'Millennium Bomber' was sentenced Wednesday to 37 years in federal prison for his failed 1999 plot to bomb Los Angeles International Airport.
John Paul Gamage was sentenced Tuesday in federal court to 24 years and five months in federal prison for traveling across state lines into Missouri to engage in illicit sexual contact with an 11-year-old victim.
An Isabela, Puerto Rico, man, Luis Montalvo-Cruz, was sentenced to 17 years in prison Friday for production of child pornography.
The operation was titled Operation Volusia Broadband, and it was spearheaded by Florida's Volusia County Sheriff's Office.
"Federal, state and local authorities arrested 33 individuals and seized guns and drugs during a 90-day concentrated enforcement initiative in the South King County area dubbed ""Operation Down in the Valley."""
A 40-year-old man was convicted on multiple charges in federal court Wednesday related to running a prostitution operation in the Twin Cities area using minors.
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