News Releases and Statements
News Releases and Statements
ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), law enforcement agencies from Belgium, Denmark, France, Romania and the United Kingdom, and the European Police Office (Europol) seized 132 domain names today that were illegally selling counterfeit merchandise online to unsuspecting consumers.
A probe that disrupted a scheme to traffic methamphetamine ingredients through the U.S. to drug cartels in Mexico has led the U.S. Treasury Department to designate the Ibarra Cardona drug trafficking organization and several associates as 'specially designated narcotics traffickers' under the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act.
Jose Sergio Garcia-Ramirez, 37, formerly of Rockford, Ill., was sentenced Nov. 26 by U.S. District Judge Gustavo A. Gelpí, in the District of Puerto Rico. Judge Gelpí also ordered Garcia-Ramirez to forfeit $35,900 in proceeds and ordered the removal of Garcia-Ramirez from the United States after the completion of his sentence.
Patrick Mergen pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges of producing and possessing child pornography, following an investigation by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). HSI special agents received a lead from the Victoria, Australia, police indicating that Mergen was trading child pornography with a pedophile in Australia.
Riyadh Almadrahi pleaded guilty Wednesday to food stamp fraud, after an investigation by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
Abraham Sacharow, 43, of Baltimore, pleaded guilty to attempted transfer of obscene material to a minor, in violation of federal law, at a hearing in U.S. District Court, District of Delaware.
Scott Allen Rupert pleaded guilty Wednesday for attempted coercion and enticement of a minor. The plea is the result of an investigation by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations. This is the second time Rupert has been arrested and charged with online child enticement offenses. He was arrested in April 2006 in a similar online sting operation.
Robert Mucha was charged Tuesday with luring a teenage boy to Pennsylvania for sex as well as possessing child pornography on his home computer. Using a web-based chat service, Mucha communicated regularly with a number of individuals who shared his sexual fascination with child cannibalism. He also admitted that he has touched hundreds of boys.
Isaac Heredia Luciano appeared in federal court Tuesday, and pleaded guilty to one count of transporting and shipping child pornography, He admitted that videos he downloaded ranged from "diaper porn" to toddlers to teens, and that he possessed videos that included bondage and other sadistic acts involving minors.
Walter Eugene Rogers pleaded guilty in federal court Tuesday to one count of transporting and shipping child pornography. Rogers admitted that he had been downloading child pornography since the mid-1990s, and that he had images and videos of sex acts, bondage and other sadistic acts involving children.
Glen Matteson pleaded guilty in federal court in Providence Tuesday to one count each of receipt, possession and distribution of child pornography, as charged in a federal indictment returned in August. The guilty plea is the result of an investigation by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
Amin Ravan, a citizen of Iran, and his Iran-based company, IC Market Iran (IMI), have been charged in an indictment unsealed today with conspiracy to defraud the United States, smuggling, and violating the Arms Export Control Act (AECA) in connection with the unlawful export of 55 military antennas from the United States to Singapore and Hong Kong.
Gregory Lynn Hopson was ordered detained without bond Tuesday after earlier being indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of producing, transporting, receiving and possessing child pornography.
James Postlethwaite, a Canadian man who smuggled drugs owned by the outlaw biker gang Hells Angels, was convicted Thursday of conspiracy to distribute marijuana.
Arif Kurti, the alleged leader of an ethnic-Albanian organized crime syndicate, was extradited from Albania to the United States Friday.
This past Sunday, Nov. 18, CBS News' 60 MINUTES aired a story highlighting ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) investigation and take down of the Pacific Rim "Super Cartel" based in Colombia.
Thirteen individuals indicted for document fraud and identity theft related charges were arrested Friday in the municipalities of Bayamon, San Juan and Carolina, Puerto Rico. ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents worked jointly with the Internal Revenue Service, Puerto Rico Police Department (PRPD)...
Special agents with ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the FBI along with officers from the Maple Shade and Palmyra, N.J., police departments arrested 16 individuals Sunday in Maple Shade and seized thousands of counterfeit items with an estimated retail value of more than $1 million.
Michael Scott Wilson of Perry Hall, Md., was sentenced two years in prison for possessing approximately 260 images of child pornography.
Naveed Sheikh, of Baltimore, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to and infringing copyrights by illegally reproducing and distributing more than 1,000 copyrighted commercial software programs, with a total value of more than $4 million.
Former Hanford High School teacher and football coach Eric Rodriguez was sentenced in federal court Monday to eight years and one month in prison receiving child pornography. Rodriguez received about 30 separate videos depicting minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct. The videos portrayed sadism, masochism and other images of violence.
Anthony Zane Austin appeared in federal court Friday and pleaded guilty to one count of possessing child pornography.
Castillo illegally obtained and sold genuine identification and citizenship documents to illegal aliens between August 2011 and April 2012.
Justin S. Mote was indicted Thursday on charges of producing child pornography, coercion and enticement of a juvenile, and for interstate travel to engage a minor in illegal sexual conduct. Mote, of Marysville, Ohio, allegedly drove to Connecticut in August 2012 and recorded sex acts with a 12-year-old girl he met online.
An Austin, Texas, man, Elod Tamas Toldy, was sentenced Wednesday to 12 months and one day in federal prison for mail fraud and trafficking in counterfeit goods and services, following an investigation by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
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