News Releases and Statements

A Dominican national was sentenced Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn, N.Y., to 33 years and seven months in federal prison for his role in a cocaine and heroin distribution conspiracy based in New York.

"Twenty-seven individuals were charged in 13 narcotics-related indictments with selling ""cut"" for cocaine or heroin, knowing and intending that it would be used to manufacture significant amounts of cocaine or heroin for future distribution."

Two men have received lengthy prison sentences for their roles in a wide-scale drug trafficking conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales on Wednesday.

A leader of one of the militarized Colombian drug-trafficking organizations known as Bandas Criminales (BACRIMS), was indicted Tuesday, following a joint investigation by ICE's HSI, the DEA, and the FBI.

A Mexican national who drove a minivan into the United States with rocker panels loaded with cocaine was sentenced on Tuesday to 10 years in prison narcotics smuggling, announced U.S. Attorney Jose Angel Moreno.

Groups of illegal aliens, such as this one, were housed in the Gateway Hotel before being transported to various U.S. cities from El Paso, Texas.

ACTT is a collaborative enforcement effort launched in September 2009 that leverages the capabilities and resources of more than 60 federal, state, local and tribal agencies in Arizona and the Government of Mexico.

A man who fled to the United States after allegedly committing aggravated murder in Mexico was deported on Monday by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO).

On Tuesday, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) began using a federal information sharing capability in Boone, Cape Girardeau, Cass, Cole, Dunklin, Jasper, Marion and Saint Charles counties.

Five individuals and a Nashville firearms manufacturer have been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges relating to international firearms and trafficking violations of the Arms Export Control Act (AECA).

Two defendants, who were arrested on Friday on felony charges related to a forced labor/harboring conspiracy, made their initial appearances on Monday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Irma C. Ramirez, announced U.S. Attorney James T. Jacks of the Northern District of Texas.

Derek Alan Lee, 44, and his stepson Jeffrey Dean McMillan, 21, both of Orange Park, Fla., have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Jacksonville, in separate cases involving child pornography charges.

Jeffery Louis, 51, of Orange, Texas, pleaded guilty Feb. 8 before U.S. District Judge Ron Clark to possessing child pornography. Cribb was indicted by a federal grand jury on Nov. 17, 2010 and charged with federal child pornography violations.

Adam Jay Lublin, 42, of West Chester, Pa., was sentenced in federal court Feb. 8 to 36 months in prison for possession of child pornography in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

A Honduran national, wanted in his home country for first degree murder, was turned over to Honduran law enforcement officials Monday by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers.

A Salvadoran national was sentenced on Thursday to 15 years in prison for his role in a 2008 illegal alien smuggling operation that resulted in three deaths, announced U.S. Attorney John E. Murphy, Western District of Texas.

ICE's 'Operation Interception' sacks vendors for more than 3.56 million dollars in fake merchandise

John Charles Ware, 47, of Oxford, Pa., is charged with child sex tourism in a case being investigated by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), Philadelphia.

Twenty-eight previously deported aliens and three immigration violators are facing deportation following a one week long enforcement operation spearheaded by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers in New Jersey.

Six men were sentenced Thursday to prison terms ranging from 60 to 170 months for trafficking narcotics announced U.S. Attorney Jose Angel Moreno.

A federal grand jury returned a superseding indictment Wednesday charging, Steven Neal Greenoe, 37, a U.S. citizen from Raleigh, with the illegal export of firearms from the United States to the United Kingdom.

A man who conspired to import cocaine and marijuana into the United States by concealing the drugs in commercial airlines was sentenced to 20 years in prison Thursday, following an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).

According to the first indictment, beginning on January 2007 and ending in or about January 2008, Ricardo Betancourt-Muñoz, José Ramon Parra-Botero, William Garzon, Carlos Maestre-Astacio, Manuel De Jesús Cedeño-Vilorio, Miguel Ángel Builes-Mejías, José Gómez-Cubero, and José I. Valentin-López, conspired and engaged in financial transactions with proceeds generated by drug trafficking activities in order to repatriate drug proceeds in the United States to Colombia, the source country of the narcotics, all for financial gain and profit. The forfeiture allegation involving the laundered drug proceeds in this case is in the amount of more than $877, 0000.

Suleiman Ahmed Zakaria, 27, of Pikesville, Md., was sentenced yesterday to 10 years in prison for importing heroin into the United States from Ghana as the result of an investigation conducted by U.S. ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

Nine South Florida residents were arrested on federal criminal charges in a $12 million bank fraud scheme, following an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), U.S. Secret Service, and the City of Miami Police Department.