News Releases and Statements
News Releases and Statements
Young-Woo Ji from Bayside, N.Y., pleaded guilty Monday to charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud affecting financial institutions and bank fraud, aggravated identity theft and false claims.
An Iowa man was sentenced Thursday to 20 years in federal prison followed by a lifetime of supervised release after he pleaded guilty to two counts of receiving images of child pornography and transmitting obscene material to a minor under the age of 16 years old.
A Kingsville, Texas, man was found guilty Monday of conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute more than 100 kilograms of marijuana, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
Martin Kruja, 29, of Toronto, was convicted by Judge Lloyd Dean in the Ontario Court of Justice in Windsor. Kruja was arrested in May 2012 after his fingerprints were found on a 6-pound package of marijuana concealed in the bumper of a vehicle that had been driven into Detroit from Windsor.
Han Sa Yu, 44, a resident of Maryland who is originally from South Korea, was sentenced today to 210 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for extorting Korean businesses operating in Annandale, Va.
Tri Tran, aka Tony, 35, a citizen of Vietnam unlawfully in the country and residing in Maryland, pleaded guilty Friday to mail fraud in connection with a scheme to skim credit card account data and re-encode the data onto different credit cards used to buy merchandise at retail stores.
Roger Lee Loughry Sr., 57, of Baltimore, was found guilty Thursday by a federal jury, and was sentenced Friday to serve 30 years in prison for his participation in a global online child pornography conspiracy.
Each shipment consisted of hundreds of kilograms.
Andres Sanpedro-Jeronimo, 30, formerly of Magna and Angel Adrian Jauregui-Lopez, 24, formerly of Orem, were removed from the Salt Lake City area to Mexico after completing prison terms at correctional facilities in Utah.
ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents and officers assigned to the Puerto Rico Crimes Against Children Task Force (PRCACTF) arrested a Vieques, Puerto Rico, resident Monday for allegedly producing child pornography and transporting a minor with the intent to engage in criminal sexual activity.
Fake jerseys, ball caps, T-shirts, jackets and other souvenirs are among the counterfeit merchandise and clothing confiscated by teams of special agents and officers from ICE's Homeland Security Investigations.
A federal indictment was unsealed Wednesday charging a Tampa man with making false statements in connection with his naturalization application.
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.
U.S. District Judge Micaela Alvarez accepted the guilty plea of Jose Alaniz-Allen, 22, and set sentencing for May 16. At that time, Alaniz-Allen faces up to 20 years in federal prison and a possible $250,000 fine. He will remain in custody pending his sentencing.
James Lynn Jones operated Lot-O-Games in Jones County, Texas
An Ocean Township, N.J., man pleaded guilty Jan. 14 to the manufacture and sale of fraudulent government documents. If convicted, he faces up to eight years in prison.
A southern Minnesota man was sentenced in federal court Thursday for transporting illegal aliens.
ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Washington, D.C., and state law enforcement partners investigated James Raymond Schimmel of Alexandria, Va., for engaging with a minor through the Internet and convincing the victim to meet in person for the purpose of engaging in criminal sexual activity.
Francisco Jose Cantu, 27, of Andrews, Texas, appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge David Counts Monday and admitted that in October 2012 he received images of child pornography via the Internet.
Former Rio Hondo, Texas, police officer Armando Duenez pleaded guilty Wednesday to conspiracy to illegally export firearms and failure to appear. Duenez admitted purchasing more than 15 semi-automatic rifles that were later sold in Mexico.
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.
Nathan Brown was sentenced Tuesday to 60 years in federal prison for producing and possessing images and videos of child pornography. Between January 2010 and November 2011, Brown produced still images and videos of three different children engaged in sexually explicit conduct.
Suspect relied on several collusive merchants who possessed credit card processing machines.
Two members of the Mara Salvatrucha aka MS-13 gang, Jose Rodas-Alvarado and Roni Arriola-Palma, were arrested Monday on charges of first- and second-degree attempted murder, kidnapping, first- and second-degree assault, theft, and reckless endangerment following an investigation by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), PG County...
Brock Boston and Leslie Woods face charges of producing sexually explicit videos of local minors and possessing child pornography. The victims were ages 4 and 16 when the alleged abuse took place.
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