News Releases and Statements

"Orlando Garcia, the last gang member who was part of a local drug trafficking conspiracy involving gang leadership inside and outside of the Texas prison system, was convicted by a federal jury Wednesday. This conviction resulted from an investigation led by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) dubbed ""Operation Prison Cell."""

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the U.S. Air Force's Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI) Detachment 228 awarded a rare honor to a local special-needs man Marcus Cox on Wednesday.

An El Salvadoran gang member, Felix Noel Arevalo-Cantarero of Silver Spring, Md., was sentenced to more than four years in prison for illegally re-entering the United States after having been previously deported following an investigation led by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).

Three owners of an Atlanta meat supply business, Rhett Maughon, Rafael Villarreal, Sr., and Marcus Maughon, have been sentenced to serve time in federal prison following a joint investigation by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

Neil Felahy, the operations manager for California-based MVP Micro was sentenced to 20 months in prison Wednesday for conspiring to sell counterfeit integrated circuits to the U.S. military, defense contractors and others. The investigation was conducted by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations and the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS).

Jose Angel Saavedra-Moreno, 23, was sentenced to 210 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Micaela Alvarez Feb. 22, to be followed by a five-year term of supervised release.

A Colombian man, Neiser Guerrero-Jimenez, was sentenced to 235 months in federal prison for conspiring with others to possess with intent to distribute five or more kilograms of cocaine onboard vessels subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. An investigation by the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force's (OCDETF's) Panama Express...

Donald Wayne Waters, 44, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Kenneth Hoyt Feb. 21. Waters was additionally ordered to serve a 10-year term of supervised release and must register as a sex offender.

Bryan Martin, 39, of Corpus Christi, Texas, on Feb. 21 agreed to the facts as described by the prosecutor regarding his offense. U. S. District Judge John D. Rainey accepted the guilty plea and set sentencing for May 21. Martin faces a mandatory minimum of 10 years in federal prison, and up to life in prison.

"The San Juan-based, multi-agency Border Enforcement Security Task Force arrested seven individuals and seized illegal guns and drugs during a five-day operation called ""Operation Night Creepers"" in the municipality of Loiza, Puerto Rico."

Patrick Mahoney, 34, of Columbus, Ohio, was arrested without incident and is currently in custody. He was charged in a criminal complaint with knowingly attempting to entice a minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct and is scheduled to appear Feb. 22 for a detention hearing.

"Two members of an organized crime family, Alphonse Trucchio and Christopher Colon, pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy charges for their participation in a scheme to recruit illegal aliens to work in adult entertainment clubs controlled by ""La Cosa Nostra."" The guilty pleas are a result of an investigation conducted by ICE's HSI."

ICE's HSI-led National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center and the World Customs Organization recently concluded Operation Global Hoax II, seizing tens of thousands of counterfeit and pirated goods at international mail facilities and express courier depots worldwide during a two-month operation that began in November 2011.

Aaron Gregory Guzman of Clovis, Calif., pleaded guilty Tuesday to receiving more than 600 images and videos of sexually explicit conduct involving minors following an investigation by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).

John Anthony Baca of Bakersfield, Calif., was sentenced in federal court Tuesday to 10 years in prison on child pornography charges after pleading guilty to receiving and distributing more than 600 sexually explicit videos and still images of prepubescent minors.

Three local men who pleaded guilty in November 2011 to various firearms offenses were sentenced on Tuesday, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldana, Northern District of Texas.

Bryan W. Corbitt, a former Doernbecher Children's Hospital pediatric nurse connected to the online screen name 'Kidluver', was arrested on federal criminal charges Friday morning for possessing, receiving and distributing child pornography. The case is the result of a probe by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).

James Armstrong Sparkman, of Garland, Texas faces a statutory sentence of not less than five or more than 20 years in prison, a $250,000 fine, and up to a lifetime of supervised release. Sparkman, who remains in federal custody, is scheduled to be sentenced by U.S. District Judge David C. Godbey on May 4.

William H. Conner of Whitehall, Ohio, was sentenced to 30 years in prison for possession and receipt of child pornography following an investigation by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and members of the Franklin County Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force.

Moshe Barmuha, of Studio City, Calif., was sentenced to 7 1/2 years in prison for attempting to extort money and gain ownership of a shopping mall kiosk business from two former business partners following an extensive investigation conducted by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).

Adam Hammond of Climax Springs, Mo., who crashed his car while fleeing from his victim's mother, was sentenced to 20 years in prison Friday for producing child pornography and enticing a minor for illicit sex. The sentence resulted from an investigation conducted by the following agencies: ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI)...

A Mexican married couple was sentenced to more than three years in federal prison for using their daughters' border crossing cards to smuggle dozens of young girls into the United States, following an investigation by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).

A citizen from the People's Republic of China was sentenced Thursday to more than three years in prison following an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the Tennessee Department of Transportation and the Tennessee Highway Patrol - Criminal Investigation Division.

Jonathan Waltman, 26, from Nashport, Ohio, was sentenced to nearly 25 years in prison after previously pleading guilty to attempting to transport an individual in foreign commerce to engage in prostitution and attempting to travel to engage in illicit sexual conduct.

James M. Goodman, 44, of Springfield, Ohio, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 180 months in prison for using the Internet to try and arrange to take sexually explicit photographs of young girls.