News Releases and Statements
News Releases and Statements
Moonseop Kim, a South Korean national illegally present in the United States, pleaded guilty Wednesday to transporting illegal aliens into Mississippi for financial gain in connection with a sex trafficking organization.
An illegal alien from Mexico, Angel Campos Tellez of Maryland, pleaded guilty to transporting individuals to engage in prostitution, which carries a maximum of five years in prison. The case was investigated by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in Washington, D.C., which participates in the Northern Virginia Human Trafficking Task Force.
Two Brazilian nationals were sentenced in federal court Friday for smuggling undocumented immigrants into the United States for profit. The guilty plea follows an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
A Mexican national, Juan David Alviso-Gonzalez, was sentenced Monday to five years in federal prison for smuggling illegal aliens into the United States and raping one of the women who was part of the smuggling load.
Jean-Claude "Kodjo" Toviave, 44, a native of Togo, West Africa, in addition to his prison sentence, was ordered to pay his victims more than $130,000 in restitution which represents minimum wage for their hours of labor.
Miguel Aceves and Valentine Pena-Roman received significant federal prison sentences Monday for smuggling aliens into the United States, and raping and threatening individuals in their smuggling load.
Marco Garcia-Perez, a Mexican national who was convicted Friday of conspiracy to transport illegal aliens, is the fifth person so far convicted from eight who have been charged.
A 17-month-old girl was rescued and reunited with her mother in Mexico Thursday afternoon after officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) located her in a San Diego apartment where she was being held by her paternal grandmother.
Oklahoma's first-ever federal human trafficking sentences, including six people sentenced over two days, were announced Tuesday following their guilty pleas to sex trafficking by force, fraud and coercion, and coercion and enticement to travel in interstate commerce to engage in prostitution.
After a five-day trial in Albany, a jury has convicted Annie George of Rexford, N.Y., of harboring an illegal alien.
Two individuals - charged in a federal felony criminal complaint with sex trafficking a child, by force, fraud or coercion - made their initial appearance in federal court Tuesday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeffrey L. Cureton.
Susan Lee Gross, the owner of an Annandale massage parlor used as a front for prostitution, was sentenced to 30 months in prison Friday.
Lewey Martinez was sentenced Thursday to nine years and seven months in federal prison for his role in an alien smuggling and harboring scheme that resulted in the death of a 24-year-old Mexican national in September 2011.
Guerrero Andrade pled guilty to child sex trafficking, which carries a mandatory minimum of 10 years and a maximum of life in prison.
A U.S. District Court judge sentenced a San Diego man Monday to serve 150 months in federal prison for the trafficking of a 14-year-old girl he prostituted over the course of several days at various motels and hotels in Southern California.
A superseding indictment, returned Thursday in federal court, has added 13 more defendants for their roles in an alleged sex trafficking and prostitution ring operating in Mexico, Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas and elsewhere.
Michelle Matney of Greensboro, N.C., pleaded guilty today for her role as the leader of an interstate prostitution organization and to conspiracy to persuade others to travel to engage in prostitution.
A Guatemalan national who admitted playing a central role in a large-scale human smuggling organization that brought thousands of illegal aliens from Central America to Southern California, often holding them against their will in so-called drop houses, has been sentenced to eight years in federal prison.
A southern Minnesota man was sentenced in federal court Thursday for transporting illegal aliens.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director John Morton delivered a keynote address to the Anti-Human Trafficking Symposium at Georgetown University, January 30.
A woman from Los Angeles, Calif., was convicted Thursday of conspiracy to transport and harbor aliens resulting in the death of a 38-year-old illegal alien from Mexico, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson, Southern District of Texas.
The head of an extensive alien smuggling organization operating in and around south and southeast Texas, Jose Aguirre-Nunez, was sentenced to 12 ½ years in federal prison.
Kenneth Graham of Amherst, N.Y., was convicted after a jury trial of sex trafficking by force, sex trafficking of a minor by force and sex trafficking of a minor. Between winter 2010 and August 2012, Graham recruited, promoted and profited from the prostitution activities of two minor girls knowing that the girls were under the age of 18.
Two Brazilian nationals pleaded guilty Wednesday to smuggling illegal aliens into the United States for profit. The guilty plea follows an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
Today, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced the results of a lengthy investigation, called Operation Dark Night, into a sex trafficking ring operating in Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas.
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