News Releases and Statements
News Releases and Statements
Evidence introduced during the trial established that Jean-Claude "Kodjo" Toviave, a native of Togo, West Africa, used force, and threats of force, to obtain the domestic labor of four minors from Togo from January 2006 to January 2011.
Fidel Ignacio Cisneros, an Army sergeant who was previously stationed in the Orlando-area while serving in the military, was sentenced Tuesday to 46 months in federal prison after he violated the Arms Export Control Act and International Traffic in Arms Regulations.
A Guatemalan woman wanted for her alleged role in the murder of a former top security advisor to the Guatemalan government was handed over to authorities in Guatemala City Tuesday by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), capping a two-year effort by her native country to secure her capture and return.
A Wisconsin man, Bryan Erbst, was sentenced Tuesday to 7 1/2 years in federal prison for possessing child pornography after an investigation conducted by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
Four Texas men are in federal custody following their arrest by agents with ICE's Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). They are charged with conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute 36.5 kilograms of marijuana.
Arrests took place in the following counties: Manatee, Hillsborough, Hernando and Orange. The arrested individuals are from the following countries: Jamaica, Mexico, Haiti, Cuba and Ecuador.
The FDA's Office of Criminal Investigations, ICE's HSI, and CBP are working together to seize illegal and harmful versions of correctable vision lenses and decorative or color contact lenses that are illegally imported and distributed throughout the United States.
Federal employees in the National Capitol Region, who have not been designated as essential for this emergency situation (Hurricane Sandy), should not report for duty on Monday, Oct. 29.
"Special agents with ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) have two words for Bay Area vendors hoping to cash in on the World Series by selling counterfeit Major League Baseball (MLB) merchandise - ""you're out!"""
Gabriel Aguilar pleaded guilty Thursday to charges of possession with intent to distribute cocaine in a case investigated by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI); the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and the Big Spring Police Department.
David Isaac Parker, of Silver Spring, Md., was sentenced today to 121 months in prison for conspiracy to import more than five kilograms of cocaine, importing cocaine and possession with intent to distribute cocaine, following an investigation led by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
Jonathan Scott Lee, 37, made his initial appearance before a federal judge Wednesday on charges of producing, distributing and possessing child pornography following a probe by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Kelso Police Department.
David Daniels, 36, pleaded guilty July 12. According to court documents, Daniels was discovered by investigators when using an online message board system where users can trade pornography and child pornography images. Investigators discovered that Daniels had been downloading and trading child pornography images on this website.
Susan Lee Gross, a woman originally from South Korea, now of Trinidad, Colo., pleaded guilty Thursday to transporting women from other states to perform sexual services for patrons of her massage parlor in Annandale, Va.
Three Chinese nationals from the Katy, Texas, area were taken into custody Thursday, following the return of an indictment alleging a conspiracy to harbor and induce illegal aliens to reside in the U.S, and unlawful employment at the Bamboo Village, aka New Bamboo Village restaurant.
Three employees assigned to ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Intelligence Office have been honored by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
A Colorado Springs man, Peter Robert James, was sentenced to serve 15 years in federal prison for distributing child pornography.
Balvinder Singh Chadha, a former Bay Area manager for the U.S. Postal Service (USPS), was sentenced Wednesday to 51 months in prison for wire fraud and conspiring to violate the federal conflict of interest statute by orchestrating a billing scheme involving a truck leasing company he operated with his wife.
The indictment alleges that the scheme caused the United States to suffer a loss of at least $781,000 in unpaid customs duties and taxes.
Alan L. Grimmett pleaded guilty Oct. 25 to possession of child pornography, following an investigation by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). Grimmett, of Hinton, W.Va., admitted he knowingly possessed on his computer more than 600 images and videos depicting minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct.
Rigoberto Puga-De La Rosa, a 36-year-old Mexican national wanted in his native country for murder, was removed Wednesday by ICE's Enforcement Removal Operations (ERO) officers.
Three men from Rio Grande City, Texas, were convicted Thursday of a large-scale drug trafficking conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute more than 1,000 kilograms of marijuana from 2003 until their arrests in June 2012.
ICE returned more than 4,000 pieces of stolen and looted cultural artifacts to the government of Mexico at a repatriation ceremony today at the Consulate of Mexico in El Paso, Texas.
The Algerian native known as the 'Millennium Bomber' was sentenced Wednesday to 37 years in federal prison for his failed 1999 plot to bomb Los Angeles International Airport.
"Federal, state and local authorities arrested 33 individuals and seized guns and drugs during a 90-day concentrated enforcement initiative in the South King County area dubbed ""Operation Down in the Valley."""
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