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September 29, 2011
|Child Exploitation
Richard Lee Lewis admitted that while he lived in Slaton he used peer-to-peer file-sharing programs to download images and videos to his computer, including child pornography, according to documents filed in the case.
September 29, 2011
|Child Exploitation
"Eric Antwan Bell, a former fugitive on ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) list of most wanted criminals that was featured in June on the television show ""America's Most Wanted"", was indicted Thursday on four counts of conspiracy to entice a minor to engage in a commercial sex act, four counts of enticing a minor to engage.."
September 29, 2011
|Child Exploitation
Brandon Davis was sentenced Thursday to 40 years in prison with no parole for producing and possessing child pornography, following an investigation by U.S. ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Rogers Police Department, Ark. Davis's wife accidently found a video of Davis engaged in sexual activity with a minor on his cell phone...
September 29, 2011
|Child Exploitation
Brad Hoggard, 44, of Coleman, Mich., was indicted by a federal grand jury in November 2010 on charges of receiving child pornography. He pleaded guilty to the charges in September.
September 29, 2011
|Labor Exploitation
An electrical contracting corporation with field offices throughout the country, including San Diego, is partnering with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) to reduce fraud and the hiring of illegal workers.
September 28, 2011
|Narcotics
Late Wednesday, a multi-agency federal law enforcement team seized 165 kilograms (363.8 pounds) of cocaine from inside a green single engine fiberglass vessel, which attempted to illegally enter the western coast of the island.
September 28, 2011
|Intellectual Property Rights and Commercial Fraud

Hana Beshara of Las Vegas, Nevada, pleaded guilty today for her role in founding NinjaVideo.net, a website that provided millions of users with the ability to illegally download infringing copies of copyright-protected movies and television programs in high-quality formats. This investigation is being conducted by the IPR Center.

September 28, 2011
|Narcotics
An upstate New York woman who was convicted of conspiring to import ecstasy, was sentenced to time served, nine months home detention on electronic monitoring and three years of supervised release.
September 28, 2011
|Narcotics
A Somali national, pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute cathinone, which is found in fresh khat leaves, following an investigation by for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in Washington, D.C.
September 28, 2011
|Child Exploitation
Four southwest Missouri men were indicted by a federal grand jury Wednesday in separate and unrelated cases of child exploitation as a result of investigations conducted by ICE Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
September 28, 2011
|Enforcement and Removal
As part of the Obama administration's ongoing commitment to prioritizing the removal of criminal aliens and egregious immigration law violators, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) today announced the results of a seven-day national 'Cross Check' enforcement operation-which led to the arrest of more than 2,900 convicted criminal aliens.
September 27, 2011
|Intellectual Property Rights and Commercial Fraud
They gathered together in plain clothes, shared their strategy for the evening and headed off in separate directions. They were agents with ICE Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). Their mission? To identify and confiscate counterfeit goods at a Washington Nationals game in Washington, D.C.
September 27, 2011
|Child Exploitation
Scott Brandon Heath, 34, of Jacksonville, Florida, pleaded guilty in federal court to possessing images of child pornography on his cellular telephone, following an investigation conducted by ICE Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the U.S. Probation Office. Forensic analysis revealed his cellular telephone contained about 5,147 images...
September 27, 2011
|Enforcement and Removal
Moreno was deported from the United States to his native Mexico in May 1994, following a federal conviction for distribution of cocaine. ICE HSI investigators believe Moreno illegally re-entered the U.S. sometime in February 2000, without first obtaining the consent of the Department of Justice or the Department of Homeland Security to reapply fo
September 27, 2011
|Child Exploitation
Daniel G. Devoe was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for coercion and enticement of a minor to engage in sexual activity, following an investigation by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). Devoe met an 11-year-old minor, who resides in Clearwater, Fla., on a social networking website. Devoe sent sexually explicit photographs...
September 27, 2011
|Financial Crimes
The last of 27 individuals arrested on federal charges pleaded guilty to participating in a bank fraud scheme that used computer software known as 'Zeus Trojan' to steal millions of dollars from U.S. bank accounts.
September 26, 2011
|Document and Benefit Fraud
Diego Cortez-Angel, a Mexican national residing in Fayetteville, Ark., was sentenced on Sept. 26 to 60 months in prison for his role in a racketeering conspiracy. He was the leader of an Arkansas cell of a highly sophisticated and violent fraudulent document trafficking organization based in Mexico, with cells in 19 cities and 11 states...
September 26, 2011
|Detainee Death Notifications
A 56-year-old Ecuadorian national in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) passed away early Monday morning at the Trinitas Regional Medical Center in Elizabeth, N.J., due to an apparent heart attack.
September 26, 2011
|Human Smuggling/Trafficking
A 43-year-old Mexican national was found guilty on Friday by a federal jury for alien smuggling that resulted in the death of nine illegal aliens.
September 26, 2011
|Child Exploitation
Jeffrey Wayne Day, 24, has been in federal custody since his Sept. 2 arrest on related charges outlined in a federal criminal complaint. According to that complaint, a detective with the Dallas Police Department, who was investigating persons involved in sharing child pornography via a peer-to-peer network, found several files indicative of child pornography that he traced to Day.
September 26, 2011
|Intellectual Property Rights and Commercial Fraud

Matthew David Howard Smith, 23, of Raleigh, N.C., pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Anthony J. Trenga in the Eastern District of Virginia to conspiracy and criminal copyright infringement.

September 25, 2011
|Narcotics
Two U.S. citizens were arrested Sunday for attempting to transport cocaine concealed in a backpack through the San Juan seaport.
September 25, 2011
|Narcotics
Former U.S. probation officer Armando Mora was sentenced to 14 years in federal prison on Monday for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute a controlled substance, and for bribing a public official. The case was investigated by ICE Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) with the assistance by the FBI.
September 23, 2011
|Intellectual Property Rights and Commercial Fraud
The items were seized from a local flea market, three storage units and a box truck.
September 23, 2011
|Child Exploitation
Mark Anthony Permenter was sentenced Friday to 30 years in federal prison for production and distribution of child pornography from an investigation conducted by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). Permenter had contact with an undercover postal inspector and sent him a sample of his child pornography via the Internet.
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