News Releases and Statements

Special agents with U. S. ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) returned 58,300K to an elderly victim of telemarketing con artists operating from Canada under a joint U.S.-Canada initiative called Project COLT.

Starbucks Coffee Puerto Rico, LLC., The Loyalty Management Group, Inc., Wisdom Resources, Inc, dba Snelling Staffing Services, and Empresas Fonalledas, joined six other businesses in Puerto Rico to become members of the IMAGE program with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

According to the indictment, complaint and testimony from the detention hearing, from Sept. 18, 2008 to Dec. 14, 2010, Jerry Wayne Valek, 35, using the name of "Jessica Villerra," and representing himself on his Facebook profile to be a 25-year-old Dallas resident, enticed three young men, under the age of 18, to send him sexually explicit images of themselves.

A Massachusetts medical center has become the country's first health care facility to sign an agreement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to strengthen hiring practices and to combat the unlawful employment of illegal aliens.

The indictment alleges that, between October and December 2010, Theodore Briggs, also known as "PeeJaye," 22, of Norwalk, Giovanni Vazquez, also known as "Screech," 23, of Norwalk, and Harry Franklin, also known as "Streets" and "Uncle Stacks," 26, of the Bronx, New York, and others, conspired to transport two minor victims across state lines with the intent that the minors would engage in prostitution.

A company based on Long Island, N.Y., that manufactures specialty security products used by law enforcement and the defense industry is the first business in the state to partner with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in an effort to strengthen its hiring practices.

David Lee McDermid, 33, a former software engineer who admitted to possessing child pornography, was sentenced Tuesday to five years in federal prison and five years of supervised release, following an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Office of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).

A Mexican national was sentenced to 15 years and five months for his role in a conspiracy to import more than five million tablets of pseudoephedrine into the United States following an investigation by Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).

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.