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During the operation, HSI special agents and partner law enforcement officers targeted five retailers of counterfeit and pirated goods.

At the time of his death, he was awaiting removal from the United States.

Brandon Lee Stockburger was sentenced Monday in federal court to nine and a half years in prison for receiving and possessing child pornography.

Wei Qin, 23, of Philadelphia, was charged with one count each of transportation and possession of child pornography. If convicted, Qin faces up to 30 years in federal prison.

Derek M. Schwartzrock, 34, a northeast heights Christian church minister, received and possessed visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct, according to a criminal complaint.

Conrad Gallant, 61, previously of Winchendon, Mass., and most recently of Shrewsbury, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Court Judge Timothy S. Hillman to engaging in illicit sexual conduct in foreign places and travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct. Under the terms of the plea agreement, the court must sentence Gallant to between 60 and 168 months in prison, 10 years of supervised release, restitution and forfeiture. Sentencing is scheduled for June 26, 2013.

The ivory statues are now in the care and custody of the Harris County District Attorney's Office.

A 25-year-old man who allegedly sold counterfeit vehicle air bags on the Internet was arrested Tuesday after being indicted by a federal grand jury on four counts of trafficking counterfeit goods.

Robert Fenn, a special education teacher at Poplar Tree Elementary School in Chantilly prior to his arrest on related state charges in June 2012, was convicted by a federal jury Thursday of receiving and possessing child pornography.

Abraham Perez Mejia, a Mexican national who was living in New Mexico, remains in federal custody following his arrest March 27 by special agents with ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) for marriage fraud.

Seven local residents pleaded guilty Thursday to intellectual property rights violations, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson, Southern District of Texas.

Enrique Pagan, 63, of Ponce; Francisco Aguirre-Sanabria, 45, of Guaynabo; Eric Remigio-Nieves, 35, of Toa Alta; and Edwin Ramon Cabrera-Rivera, 25, of Barranquitas, were arrested at their places of residence Thursday on child pornography-related charges and will have their initial hearing before US Magistrate Judge Camille Velez-Rive.

Ramy Ahmed, 30, of Allentown, Pa., was charged with committing the offense, believing he was communicating with a man who was offering his 8-year-old daughter for sex. In reality, Ahmed was in touch with HSI special agents, who arrested him April 2 when he traveled to Cherry Hill, N.J.

A coin dealer, Gantcho Zagorski, was indicted Tuesday on charges of aiding and assisting in the filing of false federal income tax returns.

Edward Alarcon, 44, was sentenced Thursday morning by U.S. District Judge George H. Wu, who also ordered the defendant to pay $1,000 restitution to Eli Lilly and Company, the manufacturer of Cialis, and $1,000 to Purdue Pharma L.P., the manufacturer of OxyContin.

Pair arrested overnight after search of Orange County home

AK-47 assault-type firearms were destined to Mexico

A federal grand jury indicted four defendants Wednesday on charges of smuggling Peruvian artifacts and interstate transportation of stolen property following an undercover probe by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).

Seven former Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) correction officers pleaded guilty Tuesday as part of a large-scale racketeering case involving the McConnell Unit in Beeville, Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson, Southern District of Texas.

Jose Yuber Antonio Del Cid-Cruz, an El Salvadoran MS-13 gang member wanted for a 2009 murder in his home country, was deported for the third time Tuesday by officers with ICE's Enforcement Removal Operations (ERO) and turned over to law enforcement officials in El Salvador.

Robert E. Eldridge was sentenced Wednesday to 180 months in federal prison and 10 years of supervised release for receipt and possession of child pornography following an investigation by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Bay County Sheriff's Office.

Oscar Mauricio Cornejo Pena, a Nicaraguan national known as the 'DC Groper,' who was convicted of sexually assaulting women in the DuPont Circle area of northwest D.C., was deported today to Nicaragua by officers from ICE's Enforcement Removal Operations (ERO) Washington, D.C., field office.

Prosecutors say the defendants wired more than $175,000 in proceeds.