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The court found that Covarrubias possessed between 15 to 50 kilograms (33 to 110 pounds) of cocaine during the time he was involved in the conspiracy.

Two contracting companies and a specialty gourmet food retailer are the latest employers to be certified with ICE's employment compliance program, IMAGE.

As part of ICE's ongoing celebration of their 10 year anniversary, the Office of Public Affairs will release a new Top 10 list every month, for 10 months.

In a massive drug enforcement operation led by ICE's HSI, more than 100 individuals were arrested early Wednesday in five states and Puerto Rico on state and federal charges related to the large-scale trafficking of heroin and cocaine from the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico into and around Connecticut.

The Dallas Office of ICE's Enforcement Removal Operations (ERO) announced Monday the sentences of eight separate cases of criminal aliens who were sentenced in March after their convictions for illegally re-entering the United States after they had been previously deported, and other aggravated felonies.

Narendra Tulsiram pleaded guilty Monday to sexually exploiting a child, transporting child pornography and possessing child pornography. From 2006 through September 2011, Tulsiram sexually abused a female minor, the victim.

Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Office of International Affairs (OIA) expanded its footprint on the continent of Africa with the opening offices in Nairobi, Kenya and Dakar, Senegal. OIA now has 75 offices in 48 countries around the globe.

Gregory J. Archambeault, a former San Diego resident and veteran federal law enforcement official, has become the new head of ICE's Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) San Diego.

Juan Aguilar, a Mexican national who formerly resided in California, was sentenced Monday to 10 years in prison for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine.

An Auburn man was sentenced Monday to 15 years in prison and five years' supervised release for being a felon in possession of a firearm, possession of ammunition and possession and distribution of cocaine.

John Nutt of Asbury Park, N.J., was sentenced April 1 for distributing images of child sexual abuse. The sentence is the result of an investigation by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).

A Potomac, Md., man was sentenced Friday for obstruction of agency proceedings, in connection with false statements he made to investigators during his background investigation for a high-level government security clearance.

The indictment alleges that Advantage Framing Systems Inc., of Spring Hill, Kan., knowingly employed illegal aliens.

Ronald Brown, 57, of Largo, Fla., pleaded guilty to three counts of possession of child pornography and five counts of receipt of child pornography, March 25. He faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison for each possession count and between five and 20 years in federal prison for each receipt offense.

A man from Guadalajara, Mexico, who attempted to smuggle a significant quantity of cocaine and methamphetamine through San Francisco International Airport (SFO) in 2011 has been sentenced to more than 12 years in federal prison.

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.

Paul Rudolph McGowan, a Jamaican criminal alien with prior felony convictions for the possession and distribution of marijuana, was sentenced to more than 7 years in federal prison Tuesday for illegally re-entering the United States following a prior removal. ICE's Enforcement Removal Operations (ERO) arrested the man July 5, 2012, in Atlanta.

Balarkishan Patwardhan is accused of providing fraudulent immigration documents to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) in support of employment visa petitions for 19 Indian nationals.

Oytun Ayse Mihalik, 40, of La Palma, a lawful permanent resident of the United States, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Josephine Staton Tucker. Mihalik pleaded guilty Aug. 10, 2012, to one count of providing material support to terrorists.

Brian Julian Gallardo of Sherman, Texas was arrested during a traffic violation near Abilene, Texas.

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.

Hector Capetillo Rodriguez from Edinburg, Texas was sentenced Thursday to 10 years in prison for enticing a minor following an investigation conducted by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), and the Port Arthur and Port Neches police departments.

A Manhattan doctor and 48 other individuals were arrested this week as a result of a long-term prescription pill investigation.

ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), with assistance from the Lakeland Police Department and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), seized 7,846 pirated DVDs and nearly $170,000 in Lakeland Thursday as part of a global counterfeit motion picture DVD investigation that extended to the People's Republic of China.

In 2003, 15 agents from what would eventually become U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deployed to Iraq, three days after the agency's creation, in a campaign dubbed Operation Desert ICE.