News Releases and Statements

Diego Mata Sanchez, who was wanted in his native country of Costa Rica for raping a 3-year-old child a decade ago, is facing deportation following his capture Friday night by the U.S. Marshals and agents from ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).

Three defendants - Henry Oliver Ford, Vincent James Vendittelli and Jason Mark Chrzanowski - have each been sentenced to two years in prison on mortgage fraud conspiracy charges following a three-year investigation by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).

Brielle Latoi Orridge of Bronx, N.Y., was arrested Monday at the George Bush Intercontinental Airport for being in possession of 1.38 kilograms of cocaine after a canine alerted the presence of narcotics inside Orridge's luggage.

ICE's Office of International Affairs and its Cyber Crimes Center developed a 40-hour First Responder Computer Forensics Training course.

Randall Starcher of Kissimmee, Fla., was sentenced to five years in federal prison and ordered to forfeit his airplane for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute marijuana, following an investigation by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Lake County, Fla., Sheriff's Office.

Of the 63 individuals arrested during the enforcement action, 55 have prior criminal convictions. The remaining eight have been charged with crimes, but their cases are still pending. The offenses range from selling heroin and amphetamines to child molestation and spousal abuse. The largest number of convictions, a total of 18, involve driving under the influence.

Raymond Dean Smith, a 42-year-old resident of Helena, Mont., was sentenced on Friday to 30 years in federal prison after he had pleaded guilty to sexually exploiting children.

Ever Enrique Medina, a/k/a "Ever Enrique Andrade" and "Scorpion," 25, an El Salvadoran native living in Columbia, Md., was sentenced to 30 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release by U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar.

Terrence John McGovern, Jr., 62, formerly of Burlingame, Calif., was taken into custody Thursday night by agents with ICE's HSI at LAX as he stepped off a commercial flight arriving from Mexico City.

A federal grand jury in Lubbock, Texas, returned a three-count indictment Wednesday charging Charles Linwood Heard with various federal child sexual exploitation offenses. Heard attempted to entice an individual via text message and email whom he believed to be an under-age boy. It was actually an undercover law enforcement officer.

Four South Texas residents were sentenced on Thursday to federal prison for conspiracy to harbor illegal aliens in a case involving three aliens that were struck and killed by an oncoming vehicle on a dark road in Duval County, Texas on June 28, 2011 when they were going to get food and water.

According to U.S. Attorney Peter J. Smith, Middle District of Pennsylvania, a federal grand jury indicted Michael Savageau, 30, of Lewisberry, Pa., for possession of child pornography. The indictment was sealed pending Savageau?

Lawrence Ellrick, 35, of Ft. Leonard Wood, pleaded guilty Dec. 15 before U.S. District Judge Richard E. Dorr to the charge contained in a Sept. 28 federal indictment. Ellrick remains in federal custody pending a sentencing hearing.

Agents with ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) arrested Chicago Bears football player Samuel George Hurd III of Lake Forest, Ill., Wednesday night on a criminal complaint charging conspiracy to distribute cocaine.

Jay Edward Glenewinkel was sentenced Wednesday to more than 18 years in federal prison for possessing, receiving and distributing child pornography, as a result of an ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) investigation that found 611 videos and 1,352 images of child pornography on his computers.

Andrew Silcox pleaded guilty on Thursday for illegally exporting military components. He admitted that he was selling Naval Radar Control Unit parts without a required State Department license to export, thinking he was dealing with a broker for a buyer in the United Arab Emirates. He was really dealing with an undercover ICE HSI agent.

A Gallatin, Tenn., man was sentenced to more than 16 years in prison on Dec. 13 for receipt, possession and distribution of child pornography following an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the ICE HSI Attache Office in Toronto and the Toronto Police Service.

Michael James Sheets of Kansas City was sentenced to more than 12 years in federal prison on Wednesday for receiving child pornography as the result of an investigation conducted by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).

Mario Alberto Esparza-Rodriguez, a Mexican national who had been posing as his U.S. citizen cousin, was indicted Wednesday and had his pickup truck seized as part of an investigation conducted by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Kansas Department of Revenue into document fraud and identity theft.

Government officials announced today that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) National Bulk Cash Smuggling Center (BCSC) has expanded its operations center to enhance efforts to combat bulk cash smuggling.

An immigration detainee was sentenced to two years and four months in federal prison on Monday for assaulting and obstructing a federal officer. The sentence was announced by U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson, Southern District of Texas.

A 34-year-old man pleaded guilty on Friday to 108 counts of production and one count of possession of child pornography following an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Puerto Rico Crimes Against Children Task Force (PRCACTF).

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), working jointly with the U.S. Marshals, the Puerto Rico Police Department (PRPD) and the Dominican Republic National Police (DRNP), arrested one of the most notorious drug traffickers Friday in the Caribbean Basin in the Dominican Republic.

Michael Wieland of Hazen, N.D., pleaded guilty in federal court Monday to two charges of possessing materials and five charges of receiving materials involving minors being sexually exploited.