News Releases and Statements

Steven Ray Hemenway, 47, admitted to possessing child pornography when investigators searched his home in February 2013. HSI special agents began their probe after Canadian officials arrested a Toronto man for distributing child pornography by email, including to an address later tied to Hemenway.

Ian Quincy Winn, 48, admitted in a plea agreement to receiving child pornography and engaging in online chats about child sex abuse with undercover HSI special agents. Court records state Winn engaged in chats with an undercover HSI special agent who was posing as a man with a 6-year-old niece.

Alan Johnson, 23, made his initial appearance in federal court Friday afternoon to answer to the charges.

Michael David Wilson, 30, whose case was featured on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Operation Predator smartphone app to seek fugitive and unknown child predator suspects, was arrested late Wednesday night in Mexicali, Mex.

Daniel Alan Jines, 37, of Whitestown, Ind., was sentenced to 680 months in federal prison after he was convicted of the following charges: 10 counts of producing, one count of receiving, and one count of possessing child pornography.

Lisa A. Renze, 48, of Uniontown, Pa., pleaded guilty April 2 before U.S. District Judge Nora Barry Fischer. At sentencing, scheduled for Aug. 1, she faces up to 30 years in prison and a fine of $250,000, or both. She is currently free on bond.

Jonathan Delaura was sentenced to 35 years in prison for receiving and distributing child pornography over the Internet, possessing child pornography and sending obscene material to a 15-year-old boy.

This event was held as part of HSI's Operation Predator, an international initiative to protect children from sexual predators.

Paul D. Edwards, 64, of Sapulpa, Okla., was charged Nov. 5, 2013 with one count of possessing and child pornography and five counts of receiving child pornography. Edwards is a former Certified Public Accountant for local municipalities and school districts who has been unemployed since 2008.

Karl W. Leeman was arrested Thursday in Watertown, Mass., after he allegedly traveled there to engage in sexual relations with a minor female. The arrest follows an investigation by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).

Anthony Nelson, a 31-year-old convicted sex offender from east Texas, was indicted Wednesday on child exploitation charges.

Thomas Warren Stickney was sentenced by U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz, who ordered that upon his release from prison, Stickney must register as a sex offender in the place where he resides, where he is an employee, and where he is a student, under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act.

HSI special agents arrested Manual A. Natal-Bracetti, of San Lorenzo, after an HSI investigation that stemmed from a March 24 referral from PRPD revealed that he transported, on several occasions, a 12-year-old girl, identified as Jane Doe, in order to engage her in sexually explicit conduct.

Adrian Gamble, of Galveston, Tex., was found Thursday morning at a location on Komohana street in Kapolei. In September 2008, Gamble was charged with engaging in sexual contact with a child younger than 17.

Paul R. Hinkel, 56, from Chester, Conn., was charged via criminal complaint on charges he persuaded, induced, enticed or coerced a minor to engage in sexual activity.

Nelson Begay, 32, was arrested Nov. 13, 2013 on a criminal complaint charging him with receiving and possessing visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct. Shortly before his arrest, Begay resigned from his position as an officer with the Albuquerque Police Department.

Benjamin Cuadrado of Lakeland, Fla was arrested late Tuesday by Polk County Sherriff's Office deputies and special agents with ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) after HSI's national Cyber Crimes Center determined that the man was a prime suspect in a national 'John Doe' warrant.

Robert Mullen, 60, who once worked for the Lawton (Okla.) Police Department, was arrested Dec. 17 by HSI special agents on a criminal complaint.

Christopher Steele, aka Mike Dozor was indicted March 6 on charges of use of interstate commerce facility to entice a minor to engage in sexual conduct, interstate travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minor and receipt of child pornography.

A former Georgia middle school teacher, William Kimbrell, has been arrested for accessing with intent to view child pornography by special agents from ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).

Determined to curb the escalating number of children falling prey to sexual predators online, representatives from federal and local law enforcement, along with a leading children's advocacy organization, announced Tuesday the launch of Project iGuardian, a first-of-its-kind national cyber safety campaign.

Neng Yang, 46, of Clovis, who previously taught in the Clovis Unified School District, pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual exploitation of a minor.

Less than a week before the start of his trial last summer, Christian James Gieseke, 39, from Garland, Texas, pleaded guilty to one count of receiving child pornography.

Dale Wray Fulford, of Slaton, Texas, faces a statutory penalty of not less than 15 years or more than 30 years in federal prison and up to a $250,000 fine. Judge Cummings ordered a presentence investigation report with a sentencing date to be set after that report is completed.