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March 11, 2014
|Operational
Explorers, their instructors and mentors, parents, HSI San Juan personnel and dignitaries attended a graduation ceremony at the historic Tapia Theater in San Juan March 8.
March 11, 2014
|Child Exploitation
Richard Castle, 47, a resident of the United Kingdom, has been sentenced to serve 192 months in prison in connection with a trip he made to Ohio from his home in the United Kingdom in order to have sexual relations with a juvenile in June 2011.
March 11, 2014
|Transnational Gangs
The training, taught by instructors from the United States, Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, is designed to enhance the ability for law enforcement personnel to respond to and identify potential threats emanating from gang members and their associates who operate throughout the region.
March 11, 2014
|Enforcement and Removal
Of the 57 arrested, 54 individuals had prior convictions for crimes including some of the following violations: criminal sexual conduct against a minor, felony assault with a weapon, felony carrying a concealed weapon, larceny, and drug possession. The remaining three were priorities for arrest as egregious immigration violators.
March 11, 2014
|Child Exploitation
Michael Fleming, 58, of New Castle, Ind., was charged by criminal complaint with one count of perjury and one count of making a materially false statement. He is the former director of the Henry County office of the Indiana Department of Child Services and a member of the New Castle Community School Corporation's school board.
March 10, 2014
|Child Exploitation
In addition to the 240-month prison sentence, the judge also ordered Peter Abraham Groce, 25, of Converse to serve a lifetime of supervised release. Groce pleaded guilty to the charges Oct. 17.
March 10, 2014
|Child Exploitation
HSI special agents arrested Rafael Cordero after they received information from the PRDP Sex Crimes Division in Ponce regarding a complaint made by the mother of a 14-year-old girl concerning sexually explicit images in the minor's Facebook account, as well as messages from Cordero requesting the photographs.
March 9, 2014
|Narcotics
Diego Santillan, 32, from Del Rio, was sentenced March 6 to 216 months in prison for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute more than 100 kilograms of marijuana.
March 9, 2014
|Child Exploitation
Patrick R. Minga, 50, formerly of Cape Coral, attempted to induce and facilitate the travel of an individual from Brevard to Quito, Ecuador, so that the individual could engage in illicit sexual conduct with minor girls.
March 7, 2014
|Counter Proliferation Investigation Unit

Among the allegations cited by State Department officials was the 2009 HSI investigation of Esterline's subsidiary, Everett-based Korry HMI Solutions.

March 7, 2014
|Document and Benefit Fraud
Michael A. DelRio, aka Copernicus Lionheart, 19, of Edison, N.J., pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit identification document fraud.
March 7, 2014
|Intellectual Property Rights and Commercial Fraud
Talib Khan, 43, of Montreal, Quebec, and Barbados, pleaded guilty to conspiracy and sale of misbranded drugs. Between August 2009 and August 2013, Gallant Pharma smuggled and sold more than $12.4 million in non-FDA-approved chemotherapy drugs and injectable cosmetic drugs and devices, generating profits of $3.4 million.
March 7, 2014
|Human Smuggling/Trafficking

The NTTTF teams, including special agents from Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and officers from Dallas Police Department (DPD), executed the search warrants at businesses located in the 11300 block of Emerald St. and the 2100 block of North Northwest Highway.

March 7, 2014
|Enforcement and Removal
Fredericus Hubertus Slicher, 77, of Baltimore, was sentenced March 7 by U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett to three months in prison followed by one year of supervised release. Judge Bennett also entered an order that Slicher pay restitution of $48,928 for social security and Medicare benefits unlawfully received.
March 7, 2014
|Intellectual Property Rights and Commercial Fraud

Josue Rivera, 38, pleaded guilty to trafficking in counterfeit and unauthorized goods. As part of his plea agreement, Rivera paid $29,000 in restitution and forfeited two bank accounts worth approximately $79,000.

March 7, 2014
|Human Smuggling/Trafficking
"Isabel Perez-Arellanez was sentenced in federal court Wednesday to 70 years in prison for his role leading a bandit ""rip"" crew that preyed on illegal border crossers in the mountains of southern Arizona."
March 6, 2014
|Narcotics
Eric Bernard Harris, 46, of St. Albans, N.Y., pleaded guilty March 7 to conspiracy to distribute marijuana. His plea was entered without a plea agreement.
March 6, 2014
|Contraband
Aneudy Benitez-Martinez, 33, a citizen of the Dominican Republic, was sentenced March 6 in the Western District of Wisconsin. U.S. District Judge Lynn S. Adelman sentenced Benitez-Martinez to 21 months in prison for illegally re-entering the US after having been previously deported, and for being an illegal alien unlawfully possessing a firearm.
March 6, 2014
|Human Smuggling/Trafficking
The investigation on Samuel Castro-Flores, aka 'Chame' or 'Chamuco,' 41, a Mexican national, began in mid-August 2012 after two illegal aliens had been smuggled into the country and their family members began to receive extortion calls demanding money for their release.
March 6, 2014
|Child Exploitation
A search of a music school in Broward County, where Daniel Johnathan Gast worked as a teacher, resulted in the discovery of a computer belonging to Gast which, after a forensic analysis, yielded more than 95 video files depicting child pornography.
March 6, 2014
|Enforcement and Removal
The Criminal Alien Program (CAP) operation was conducted throughout Virginia and the district from Feb. 23 to 27, identifying previously convicted criminal aliens that circumvented identification in local jails and are amenable to removal from the United States.
March 6, 2014
|Child Exploitation
John William Harrison, 45, of Portland, Ore., pleaded guilty in July 2013 to one count of possession of child pornography.
March 6, 2014
|Child Exploitation
Kimihiko Makino, 40, pleaded guilty in June 2013 to advertising child pornography. According to the plea agreement, Makino admitted operating servers in San Francisco for a Japanese website known as 'Daio,' which advertised the sale of DVDs containing child pornography.
March 6, 2014
|Intellectual Property Rights and Commercial Fraud
Emilio Perez-Solis, 39, of Oakland, and Hernan Cortes, 53, of Tulare, are named in a four-count indictment handed down Thursday charging them with criminal copyright infringement for private financial gain, criminal copyright infringement, trafficking in counterfeit labels, documentation and packaging, and conspiracy.
March 5, 2014
|Narcotics
U.S. District Judge Crane sentenced south Texas attorney Jose Luis Palacios Jr., 38, of Mission, was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison.
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