News Releases and Statements

Dale Pearce, 53, of Cheshire, Conn., distributed child pornography by email March 8, 2009. Additionally, he distributed child pornography during an online chat Aug. 7, 2009.

Isaias Goncalves Dos Santos, a Brazilian national residing in Bridgeport, CT who was wanted in his home country for his involvement in a double homicide including a mayor of a Brazilian city, was turned over to Brazilian law enforcement authorities this morning in Rio De Janeiro.

David Scott Burton, an Alabama man who worked as an X-ray technician at a local children's hospital, was sentenced Thursday to serve 70 months in federal prison for possession of child pornography. The sentencing follows an investigation by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the Alabama Internet Crimes against Children Task Force...

Dieter David Palmer, 42, was identified as a person who purchased a membership to child pornography websites that were under investigation. The investigation began as a Department of Justice operation (Operation Flicker) targeting a criminal organization operating multiple commercial child pornography websites.

Javier Ojeda-Leon, 27, of Ashburn, Va., was removed Thursday, Mar. 22, from Dulles International Airport via commercial carrier.

The indictment alleges that Patrick Mahoney arranged online a sexual encounter with an undercover officer whom he thought was a 15-year-old girl. He allegedly intended to photograph the encounter with his cell phone.

"A Long Island biomedical company, Avery Biomedical Devices, Inc., has partnered with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) by joining the agency's employment compliance program IMAGE, or ""ICE Mutual Agreement between Government and Employers."""

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has announced that Andrew McLees has been selected to assume command as the agency's top investigator in New Jersey.

A Maryland document trafficker was sentenced to more than eight years in prison for manufacturing, selling and transferring fraudulent identification documents, including permanent resident cards, and Social Security cards following an investigation by ICE's HSI, the SSA Office of Inspector General, the U.S. State Dept. DSS and the Maryland MVA.

ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), working jointly with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at the Luis Munoz Marin International Airport, seized six kilograms of cocaine Monday from a flight arriving from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

A Connecticut man was sentenced Wednesday to 10 years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiring to distribute cocaine.

William John Krygsman, a Canadian national who was wanted on sexual assault and child pornography charges in his home country, was deported and turned over to Canadian law enforcement officials March 20 by officers with ICE's Enforcement Removal Operations (ERO).

"When you sit down with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Deputy Director Kumar Kibble, he'll tell you ""bad guys don't respect our borders, and we need international partnerships to keep up with them."" He makes this statement on the heels of a recent trip to Israel and the Palestinian Authority."

The Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS) presented its first ever private sector/government partnership award to ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), and JP Morgan Chase & Co.

According to the criminal complaint, on Oct. 1, 2011, Hector Caceres-Segui induced a 16-year-old female minor, identified as 'Jane Doe,' to engage in sexually explicit conduct, namely the lascivious exhibition of the genital areas and performance of sexual acts, for the purpose of producing a visual depiction in the form of still images.

Alfredo Carrillo, a Guatemalan national residing in Providence, R.I., who was wanted in his home country for numerous criminal charges including homicide, kidnapping and escaping from prison, was turned over to Guatemalan law enforcement authorities today by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).

Anthony Derick Howard, 45, of Hinesville, Ga., attempted to cross the border March 30, 2011, at the Peace Bridge Port of Entry in Buffalo while operating a tractor-trailer. After being pulled over for a secondary inspection, he was found to be in possession of two knives and two firearms.

Rey Anthony Anderson of Victor, N.Y., has pleaded guilty to possession of a firearm by an alien unlawfully in the United States; making a false claim to U.S. citizenship; and aggravated identity theft. This investigation is being conducted by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).

Late last week, federal authorities arrested 19 individuals in nine states for their involvement in Operation "Open Market," an investigation into a transnational criminal organization operating principally out of Las Vegas.

Tommie Rand Pierce was sentenced to more than four years in prison for impersonating a federal agent Thursday following an investigation by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). Pierce defrauded aliens by leading them to believe he was a federal agent with authority within ICE to obtain approval of immigration applications.

Dagoberto Castaneda was sentenced to three years in federal prison for possessing child pornography following an investigation by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the FBI and the Baltimore County Police Department. Castaneda's computers contained more than 600 images of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct.

Georgios Sgouros, from Athens, Greece, was sentenced this week to serve 10 years in federal prison for traveling with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct in a case investigated by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). An undercover special agent engaged in an Internet chat with Sgouros who expressed interest in traveling...

Juan Rodriguez-Lopez was sentenced Wednesday to more than eight years in federal prison for his role in a cocaine trafficking conspiracy following an investigation led by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).

Joe Frank Rios, 45, was sentenced by Senior U.S. District Judge Hayden Head, further ordering Rios to serve a life term on supervised release and register as a sex offender. Rios pleaded guilty Jan. 12, admitting he possessed multiple videos and images of child pornography which consisted of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct.

Nicholas Brown, 25, was sentenced by Senior U.S. District Judge Janis Graham Jack, which will be followed by a life-year-term of supervised released. He was also ordered to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life.