News Releases and Statements
News Releases and Statements
Joseph Fellhauer was sentenced Wednesday to 10 years in federal prison for distributing child pornography. Forensic review of Fellhauer's media devices revealed more than 12,000 images and 350 videos of child pornography. This investigation was conducted by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
The head of an extensive alien smuggling organization operating in and around south and southeast Texas, Jose Aguirre-Nunez, was sentenced to 12 ½ years in federal prison.
A Lithuanian national, who was convicted of second-degree murder for his role in the 2005 beating death of University of Illinois at Chicago student Tombol Malik, was deported Wednesday by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO).
A Montana man was sentenced Thursday to four years in federal prison following his guilty plea to growing marijuana, announced U.S. Attorney Michael W. Cotter, District of Montana.
Following his prison sentence, Steven Raines, 35, of Fort Wayne, Ind., was also ordered by U.S. District Court Judge R. Brooke Jackson to serve a life time on supervised release. Raines appeared at the hearing in custody, and was remanded immediately after.
A New York man who attempted to smuggle nearly two pounds of cocaine out of the United States concealed inside his body faces more than six years in prison after pleading guilty last Thursday to federal drug charges.
A former U.S. Navy sailor, Derrick M. Mendez, was sentenced to more than 10 years in federal prison for receiving child pornography.
Jacqueline Bontzolakes, an upstate New York woman who was convicted after a jury trial of international parental kidnaping and making a false statement on a passport application, was sentenced to 18 months in prison.
Oluremi George was sentenced in federal court Friday for using an alternative identity to fraudulently receive government benefits, including more than $18,000 in Low Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC) from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Yoon was recognized for his contributions to federal child exploitation prosecutions, particularly Operation Holitna. His work with HSI, focused on child exploitation investigations, has resulted in the arrests of numerous child predators worldwide.
A federal jury on Friday convicted Jennifer Ellen Marie Rodriguez, a U.S. citizen who resided in Reynosa, Mexico, on one count of possessing with intent to distribute more than 10 kilograms (22 pounds) of methamphetamine.
A federal indictment, returned by a grand jury last month, was unsealed Friday charging 20 Dallas-Fort Worth area residents with conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute 100 kilograms or more of marijuana.
A Lynnwood electronics company, a China-based manufacturer and four individuals were indicted by a federal grand jury Thursday for conspiracy to traffic in counterfeit goods, following a probe by the Seattle-Tacoma Border Enforcement Security Task Force (BEST), including ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
Saul Camargo-Avendano, a 41-year-old Mexican national sought by authorities in Baja California for his alleged role in the 2011 slaying of an Ensenada councilman,was removed Wednesday by ICE's Enforcement Removal Operations (ERO) officers.
Mickell Close of Quincy, Ohio, who was arrested in November as part of ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Operation Sunflower, pleaded guilty Thursday to child sexual exploitation charges.
Kenneth Graham of Amherst, N.Y., was convicted after a jury trial of sex trafficking by force, sex trafficking of a minor by force and sex trafficking of a minor. Between winter 2010 and August 2012, Graham recruited, promoted and profited from the prostitution activities of two minor girls knowing that the girls were under the age of 18.
Scott Allen Johnson pleaded guilty in federal court Thursday to receiving child pornography over the Internet. Investigators found 219 images and 46 movie files of child pornography on Johnson's laptop computer.
Juan Alvizures Oliva, 30, of Hyattsville, Md., was sentenced to 12 years in prison followed by five years of supervised release by Chief U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow for production and possession of child pornography.
Christopher Boucher, a West Brookfield, Mass., man with a prior child pornography conviction, was sentenced to 10 years in prison Jan. 15 in U.S. District Court in Springfield, Mass. The sentence is the result of an investigation conducted by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Massachusetts State Police.
Over 300 federal, state and local law enforcement officers carried out arrests and executed search warrants early this morning in Operation Concord, a large-scale collaborative investigation into the violence and distribution of drugs by the Hendry Street and Woodward Avenue gangs and their associates who terrorized residents.
The evidence at Rana's trial showed that he knew he was assisting a terrorist organization and murderers.
Two Brazilian nationals pleaded guilty Wednesday to smuggling illegal aliens into the United States for profit. The guilty plea follows an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
Gregory Sean O'Neall, a 51-year-old convicted sex offender, was sentenced Thursday to 10 years in prison for possession of child pornography. The former Costco food demonstrator took photos of little girls shopping at the store.
Today, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced the results of a lengthy investigation, called Operation Dark Night, into a sex trafficking ring operating in Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas.
A Hong Kong man was arrested Monday at the San Francisco International Airport and presented in federal court in the Northern District of California. The arrest is the result of an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Defense Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS).
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