News Releases and Statements

Josue Rivera operated a retail merchandise business called Main Source, located in Springfield. Between April 11 and June 2012, Rivera stocked and sold counterfeit merchandise, including clothing, footwear and accessories.

Charles Allen Nave III had more than 300 images and 20 videos of child pornography in his possession.

Forensic examination of computer equipment seized from Sean Lawrence in a library and at his residence revealed he had downloaded more than 10,000 still images and 200 videos of child pornography.

According to court documents, on Feb. 1, 2013, Alberto Morales possessed between 300 and 600 images depicting minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct.

Charles Ray Benavidez, an Aviation Ordnanceman Second Class at the Naval Air Station in Lemoore, is scheduled to be sentenced March 17.

William George Gray, 51, was ordered to serve seven years and three months in prison, to be followed by 10 years of supervised release, for receipt of child pornography. Assistant U.S. Attorney Brian W. Enos is prosecuting the case.

John Kuhl gave a cell phone to a female minor and coerced her to take explicit photographs of herself and send them to him. Law enforcement began investigating this incident after they learned Kuhl inappropriately touched four other minors during a boat trip in Newport.

U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings remanded Jose Francisco Madrigal Jr., 43, of Plainview, Texas, into custody; he had been released on bond.

As the result of the combined efforts of multiple law enforcement agencies, including ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), a South Korean national was convicted by the Korean Military Court for violations of Korean criminal laws for threatening to kill students at Hackettstown High School with an AK-47.

ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) seized $723,377 in fake sports merchandise after a three-month enforcement initiative targeting counterfeit National Hockey League gear and other sportswear leading up to the 2014 NHL Winter Classic events.

John Richard Rolater, 69, pleaded guilty to the charge and also agreed to surrender any and all contraband vertebrate fossils he has, which include the following fossils from China: a saber-toothed cat skull, a Feilongus fossil, an Anchiornis Huxleyi fossil and a Darwinopterus fossil.

Mario Alberto Hernandez-Huerta, 32, was transferred to the custody of representatives from the Mexican Attorney General's Office.

Lopez-Perez was last encountered Sept. 10 by U.S. Customs and Border Protection's (CBP) Border Patrol agents in Laredo.

Beginning in December 2012 through June 2013, Jean-Elguentino Cayo sold approximately 400 names, dates of birth, and Social Security numbers belonging to other people to a confidential informant and undercover law enforcement officer in exchange for money.

Royce DeWeese, 26, of Cherry Hill, N.J., was sentenced to 108 months in prison. Following his sentence he will serve a lifetime term of supervised release.

According to plea documents filed in the case, Stephen Carpenter, 33, of Slaton, Texas, used a file-sharing program to search for child pornography. He downloaded and viewed many video files of children being sexually exploited.

A Fox Chapel pharmacy owner, Robin W. Simon, was sentenced to 24 months of probation for smuggling and unlawfully importing the anti-cancer prescription drug Xeloda.

A computer forensics analysis of computer equipment belonging to Lawrence Flack, who had previously been convicted of sexual battery against a minor, identified more than 7,500 images and videos, some portraying sadistic or masochistic conduct.

Nader Modanlo, aka Nader Modanlou, aka Nader Modanlu, 53, was also ordered to forfeit $10 million.

Heriberto Pena-Salazar, 25, must also serve 15 years of supervised release and register as a sex offender.

Leon Perry Brooks Sr. was indicted on two counts of receipt of child pornography, one count of distribution of child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography.

This fall, officers and special agents with ICE tracked down Clive Dixon, a Jamaican national who was illegally residing in Brooklyn. ICE's Enforcement Removal Operations (ERO) officers removed him late Thursday to his native country.

Balraj Naidu, 51, departed Dallas Dec. 16 and arrived in Singapore Wednesday under escort by ERO officers.

ERO officers repatriated Volodymyr Ponomarenko, 44, via an ICE Air Operations charter flight and turned him over to authorities in Boryspil, Ukraine.

In addition to his 348-month prison sentence, David Anthony Baker, 35, of Howe, Okla., was also sentenced to life on supervised release.