News Releases and Statements

The former owners of Alnoor Grocery Store and a food stamp recipient pleaded guilty on Wednesday to food stamp fraud, following an investigation ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and other agencies.

A Mexican national was sentenced to 46 months in prison for his role as the cell leader of a highly sophisticated and violent fraudulent document trafficking organization.

Taylor Claunch, 22, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge John Rainey on Sept. 20 to 121 months in federal prison without parole to be followed by 12-years of supervised release. The court also ordered Claunch to comply with additional conditions designed to protect children and the community, to include registering as a sex offender.

A federal judge on Tuesday sentenced Dynanoba Kendre, the owner of Global Healthcare Group and Fortune 500 Systems, to 21 months in prison and ordered him to pay 100,112 dollars restitution, following his conviction on visa fraud and money laundering charges.

One of the first document hosting services companies to embrace electronic document imaging is partnering with ICE to strengthen its hiring practices and help ensure it employs a legal workforce.

The Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) has dismissed the appeal of John (Ivan) Kalymon of Troy, Mich., who was ordered removed from the United States earlier this year because of his participation in lethal acts of Nazi-sponsored persecution of Jews during World War II.

Leaders of the Law Enforcement Coordinating Committee (LECC) for the Southern District of Alabama were selected as this year's winners of the ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Exemplary Partnership Award. ICE HSI announced the award during this year's annual manager's meeting on Sept. 13.

Thomas O'Brien of Portsmouth, R.I. was sentenced Monday to 72 months in federal prison followed by lifetime supervised release for receiving and possessing more than 1,100 images and videos of child pornography.

Twelve individuals were arrested for the illegal distribution and sale of unregistered and misbranded pesticides sold out of multiple locations in Manhattan, to include Chinatown. These charges stem from an investigation led by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), with the assistance ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI)...

Small, 30-foot fishing boats try to make their way to shore along the California coast. ICE HSI agents typically find two things onboard ?? thousands of pounds of dope or more than a dozen illegal aliens.

To date, 142 domain names have been seized by the IPR Center, 82 of which have been forfeited for intellectual property right infringement.

Lawrence Labbe, 46, of LaGrange, Maine, pleaded guilty on Feb. 25, 2011 to unlawfully transporting child pornography in interstate commerce using a computer.

This week, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) hosted a 'Partnerships for Public Safety' roundtable discussion with approximately 15 law enforcement leaders from across the country to discuss how communities are safer when local agencies partner with ICE.

A local environmental waste recycling company, Executive Recycling Inc., its chief executive officer, and its former vice president of operations were indicted by a federal grand jury on Thursday on charges of wire and mail fraud, and environmental crimes.

A Los Angeles-area man made his initial appearance in federal court Thursday on drug trafficking charges following his arrest at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) for attempting to smuggle nearly five pounds of methamphetamine through airport security, all of which concealed inside snack food bags in his backpack.

Five senior managers of the former IFCO Systems, N.A., a Houston-based corporation, pleaded guilty to hiring and employing unauthorized aliens at IFCO plants nationwide between January 2003 and April 2006.

Jeff Coon, 36, of Niagara Falls, N.Y., possessed child pornography videos on two computer hard drives and two disks at his residence in Niagara Falls in April 2009. Some of the children shown in the videos were prepubescent or minors under 12-years-old. Some of the videos portrayed sadistic or masochistic conduct or other depictions of violence.

Special agents with ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), in close partnership with local law enforcement, arrested 25 individuals during a week-long operation that ended late Tuesday. This is the latest local effort in an ongoing national ICE initiative to target foreign-born gang members.

Bryan Ross Spears pleaded guilty Thursday to receiving videos depicting child pornography over the Internet, following an investigation by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Volusia County Sheriff's Office.

A Florida orange juice manufacturer and three Tampa Bay area counties are partnering with ICE to reduce fraud and the hiring of illegal workers. Cutrale Citrus Juices USA, Inc., and the Boards of County Commissioners for Hernando, Pasco and Citrus counties officially became IMAGE partners at a signing ceremony in Tampa Thursday.

A previously convicted sex offender from Huntington Beach, Calif., pleaded guilty Thursday to production of child pornography and agreed to serve a 26-year prison term for filming an 8-year-old girl engaged in sexually explicit conduct.

The owner of a Los Angeles-area immigration consulting business and one of his employees are expected to make their initial appearance in federal court Thursday for their alleged role in a scheme involving hundreds of Chinese nationals who sought asylum in the United States based upon phony claims of religious persecution.

An indictment charging five former airline employees for their role in drug smuggling operations out of U.S. airports was announced today following an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).

According to the plea agreement, in September and November 2010, Larry W. Warner, Jr., 33, of Joppa, Md., posted advertisements in an online website seeking girls' underwear for him to use in an act which Warner described in a sexually explicit manner.

Jose Sarinana-Placencia, the alleged leader of a drug smuggling organization accused of moving thousands of pounds of marijuana between Maricopa, Ariz., and the Phoenix metropolitan area was arrested following a major multi-agency enforcement operation led by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Pinal County Sheriff's Office (PCSO).