News Releases and Statements

Agents with U.S. ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), in close partnership with local law enforcement, arrested 22 men during a five-day operation this week. This is the latest local effort in Operation Community Shield, an ongoing national ICE initiative to target transnational gang members.

Miguel Mendoza-Sarabia, 33, and Alonso Mendoza-Sarabia, 25, two Mexican brothers wanted in their native country for a murder three years ago, were turned over to Mexican law enforcement officials at the San Ysidro border crossing Friday by U.S. ICE officers, four days after their capture in Monterey County.

A Tennessee resident received $3,400 from local ICE HSI special agents and local law enforcement officers on Wednesday.

Two Mexican nationals and a Honduran native were indicted Thursday by a federal grand jury here following a joint probe by U.S. ICE Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the California Department of Motor Vehicles into a Tulare County-based document counterfeiting scheme.

One individual and his company in New York, and two others and their company in California, were indicted today in the District of Columbia on charges of illegally exporting millions of dollars worth of computer-related equipment from the United States to Iran via the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

Frank Salvador Solorza of Redwood City, Calif. was sentenced Wednesday to three years in prison following his conviction by a federal jury for conspiracy and attempting to extort money from six individuals while posing as a federal immigration officer. The case was investigated by U.S. ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).

"Three current or former jailers, and two men alleged to be members of the ""Raza Unida"" prison gang, were charged on Wednesday with conspiring to bribe public officials, announced U.S. Attorney Jose Angel Moreno."

A man from Broomfield, Colo., was charged on Thursday by Information with one count of willfully exporting defense articles without a license.

Gary Mack Johnson, 54, who is on bond, faces a statutory sentence of not less than five years or more than 20 years in prison, a $250,000 fine, and up to a lifetime of supervised release. Sentencing is set for Aug. 8.

Derek Alan Lee, 44, of Orange Park, Fla., pleaded guilty in federal court today to receiving images and videos depicting child pornography over the Internet.

A former Sullivan City police chief was sentenced on Wednesday to 10 years in federal prison without parole for drug-trafficking, announced U.S. Attorney Jose Angel Moreno, Southern District of Texas.

A federal grand jury returned a three-count indictment on Thursday charging former Ennis, Texas, resident Buddy Anderson with various child pornography/obscenity offenses. Persons hired to clean an abandoned apartment in Ennis discovered child pornography photographs.

A three-month investigation led by U.S. ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) into the smuggling of cigarettes from overseas through John F. Kennedy (JFK) International Airport has resulted in the arrest of a dozen individuals who have been charged with state tax violations and falsified business records.

Jorge Alberto Lopez-Cordova, 32, was charged April 20 with illegally re-entering the United States as a convicted felon after having been previously deported.

Until shortly before his arrest in late November 2009, David Ray Gray, 61, was the Music Minister at the Mt. Olive Baptist Church near his residence in Scurry, Texas. On April 20, U.S. District Judge Ed Kinkeade also ordered that Gray serve a 10-year term of supervised release following his incarceration. He must surrender to the Bureau of Prisons on May 24.

The father and son owners of the Chuy's Mesquite Broiler regional Mexican restaurant chain, along with the company's accountant, will be arraigned in federal court in Tucson Thursday on tax and immigration violations contained in a 19-count indictment stemming from a lengthy probe by U.S. ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the IRS.

A federal grand jury has returned a superseding indictment charging Alan Verschleisser, 66, and Thomas Jefferson, 49, both of Baltimore, with conspiracy and possession of stolen nickel briquettes and ferrochrome stolen from foreign shipments.

Brian Keith Warren, 48, of Mesquite, Texas was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Sam A. Lindsay to 20 years in federal prison, following his guilty plea in September 2010 to three counts of receiving child pornography.

Kyochung Lee, A South Korean national wanted in his native country for a fraud scheme that cost victims more than $100 million, was turned over to South Korean law enforcement representatives at the airport in Seoul Wednesday by officers from U.S. ICE and the Korean National Police Agency.

Federal agents led by the DEA, working closely with local and state law enforcement arrested 15 people from southern Colorado who had been named in four separate indictments for drug trafficking offenses. Law enforcement in Colorado became aware that three aliens involved in the drug-trafficking organization were transporting illegal aliens...

Zhe Li of Wichita, Kan. was sentenced in federal court Tuesday for passing over $100,000 worth of counterfeit casino chips at the Argosy Riverside Casino. The case was investigated by the Missouri State Highway Patrol Gaming Division working jointly with U.S. ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), and Missouri Department of Social Services.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Tuesday began using the Secure Communities program in Adams, Darke, Greene, Lawrence, Meigs, Pike, Preble and Scioto counties.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Tuesday began using the Secure Communities program in the following seven Missouri counties: Douglas, Howell, Laclede, Oregon, Ozark, Pulaski and Texas.

Federal charges were unsealed Tuesday against 14 members of a criminal street gang who allegedly operated a crack distribution network based in Irvington, N.J., following an investigation led by federal agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).

Sharon Lee Anderson, 38, and her husband, Buddy Anderson, 39, were arrested March 24 by special agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) on charges outlined in a federal criminal complaint.