News Releases and Statements
News Releases and Statements
In the indictment returned by a federal grand jury April 1, Nancy Madelen Peebles, 73, and her daughter Lisa Kaye Barwick-Majeski, 53, both of St. Robert, Mo., were charged with aiding and abetting others to transfer more than $1 million in counterfeit obligations (postal money orders).
The three-day operation, which concluded Thursday, was conducted by ICE's Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) as part of the agency's commitment to prioritize the removal of criminal aliens and egregious immigration violators.
Cristian Alexander Castillo-Rodriguez, 36, was convicted in January 2014 for domestic violence in Franklin County, Ohio.
This event was held as part of HSI's Operation Predator, an international initiative to protect children from sexual predators.
On March 27, a federal grand jury returned a five-count indictment charging David Pina-Lico, Alexis Acosta-Monell, Johnathan Saldana-Garcia, Victor Cruz-Resto, Charlie Martinez-Pimentel, Noel Rodriguez-Lopez and Israel Adorno-Perez, with participating in a conspiracy to possess and import controlled substances...
Paul D. Edwards, 64, of Sapulpa, Okla., was charged Nov. 5, 2013 with one count of possessing and child pornography and five counts of receiving child pornography. Edwards is a former Certified Public Accountant for local municipalities and school districts who has been unemployed since 2008.
Thomas Warren Stickney was sentenced by U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz, who ordered that upon his release from prison, Stickney must register as a sex offender in the place where he resides, where he is an employee, and where he is a student, under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act.
Beginning Monday, placards created by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will be going up at two area bus shelters warning Angelinos that marriage fraud is a federal crime that carries significant prison sentences and possible six-figure fines.
Karl W. Leeman was arrested Thursday in Watertown, Mass., after he allegedly traveled there to engage in sexual relations with a minor female. The arrest follows an investigation by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
Anthony Nelson, a 31-year-old convicted sex offender from east Texas, was indicted Wednesday on child exploitation charges.
Shards of glass still lodged in his hands and a throbbing pain in his shoulder, Chris Cronen sat in a hospital emergency room the evening of March 9 a hero.
Hardeep Singh, 23, formerly of Kent, was convicted in absentia of conspiracy to distribute Ecstasy after he fled following the first day of his trial. Singh was arrested last year in Canada and extradited to the U.S. to face sentencing.
Harminder Singh Rai and Tuan Van Dang, two suspects arrested by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection's (CBP) Office of Field Operations (OFO), made their initial appearances Thursday in Seattle federal court on charges they conspired to distribute more than 60 pounds of cocaine.
Adrian Gamble, of Galveston, Tex., was found Thursday morning at a location on Komohana street in Kapolei. In September 2008, Gamble was charged with engaging in sexual contact with a child younger than 17.
HSI special agents arrested Manual A. Natal-Bracetti, of San Lorenzo, after an HSI investigation that stemmed from a March 24 referral from PRPD revealed that he transported, on several occasions, a 12-year-old girl, identified as Jane Doe, in order to engage her in sexually explicit conduct.
The investigations were conducted by ICE ERO's Criminal Alien Program in Philadelphia and are being prosecuted by Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Brian G. McDonnell with the Middle District of Pennsylvania.
ICE's 'Operation Predator' smartphone app is designed to seek the public's help with locating suspected child predators, and is one of eight finalists vying for the award.
Mei Juan Zhang, a restaurant manager from Fairfield, was sentenced March 25 to 14 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for harboring undocumented aliens for commercial advantage and private financial gain.
Nelson Begay, 32, was arrested Nov. 13, 2013 on a criminal complaint charging him with receiving and possessing visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct. Shortly before his arrest, Begay resigned from his position as an officer with the Albuquerque Police Department.
Christopher Steele, aka Mike Dozor was indicted March 6 on charges of use of interstate commerce facility to entice a minor to engage in sexual conduct, interstate travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minor and receipt of child pornography.
Paul R. Hinkel, 56, from Chester, Conn., was charged via criminal complaint on charges he persuaded, induced, enticed or coerced a minor to engage in sexual activity.
Robert Mullen, 60, who once worked for the Lawton (Okla.) Police Department, was arrested Dec. 17 by HSI special agents on a criminal complaint.
Manuel Geovanny Rodriguez-Perez, aka Shorty, 41, controlled a racketeering organization known as the 'Rodriguez Enterprise,' whose members sold large quantities of marijuana, murdered and attempted to murder 20 people, transported and laundered millions of dollars, obstructed justice and committed perjury, and engaged in firearms offenses.
Benjamin Cuadrado of Lakeland, Fla was arrested late Tuesday by Polk County Sherriff's Office deputies and special agents with ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) after HSI's national Cyber Crimes Center determined that the man was a prime suspect in a national 'John Doe' warrant.
A former Georgia middle school teacher, William Kimbrell, has been arrested for accessing with intent to view child pornography by special agents from ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
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