News Releases and Statements

U.S. ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents seized more than 900 pounds of marijuana and arrested a suspected drug smuggler at a Phoenix auto shop Friday. The owner of the business, a 40-year-old Mexican citizen unlawfully present in the United States, was arrested and charged with possession of marijuana with intent to distribute.

Darryl Owen Walizer, 43, of Las Vegas, was convicted Thursday of coercion and enticement of a minor and commission of a felony sex offense by an individual required to register as a sex offender. The charges are the result of an investigation by ICE HSI.

Albert Barnes was arrested yesterday on a federal criminal complaint charging him with one count of possession of child pornography.

"31-year old Bridgeport man, Wadner Dorce, also known as ""Wa Wa,"" pleaded guilty yesterday before U. S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to one count of illegally engaging in the business of dealing in firearms."

Timothy J. McNamee, a 56-year-old Springdale, Ohio, man who filmed and took explicit photographs of a 10-year old girl, was sentenced in federal court following an investigation by U.S. ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Springdale Police.

A man wanted on murder charges in the southeastern European country of Montenegro was removed from the United States this week by officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO).

Syed Zaidi, 54, was sentenced today to 26 months in prison for his role in an immigration fraud conspiracy.

Ten individuals from Mexico and Guatemala pleaded guilty to immigration-related charges in federal court Wednesday, following an investigation by U.S. ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).All were found in the United States while employed by J and A Framers Carpentry, a North Carolina corporation...

William M. Teich, 32, of Lafayette, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for distribution of child pornography, following an investigation by U.S. ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Lafayette Police Department (LPD). He was identified during an investigation by the LPD using a file sharing software to possess child pornography.

"Bakir Rajkotwala, of Kenner, La., was sentenced to six months of incarceration followed by deportation to his native Pakistan for trafficking counterfeit merchandise, following an investigation by U.S. ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). On Oct. 27, 2010, ICE HSI special agents confiscated about 58 counterfeit ""NFL"" Reebok Saints Jerseys."

A Chinese business agent for several honey import companies was arrested in Los Angeles Tuesday on federal charges filed in Chicago for allegedly conspiring to illegally import Chinese-origin honey that was falsely identified to avoid U.S. anti-dumping duties.

A Caldwell, Idaho, woman who operated an immigration consulting business was arrested Thursday for mail fraud and misuse of government seals following an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service.

Timothy Sorrell, 63, of Panama City, was indicted Tuesday for the receipt and possession of child pornography, following an investigation being conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Bay County Sheriff's Office (BCSO).

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Special Agent Victor Avila, Jr., was discharged from the hospital Wednesday and is at home recovering from his wounds. He was shot twice in the leg in the line of duty Tuesday afternoon after he was attacked by unknown assailants while driving between Monterrey, Mexico, and Mexico City.

A federal grand jury has unsealed multi-count indictments against 17 defendants in five separate cases involving the illegal trafficking of firearms from the United States to Mexico following a joint investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the ATF.

More than 40 criminal aliens, immigration fugitives and immigration violators are facing deportation and criminal charges following an enforcement effort spearheaded by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) in Columbus.

Three indictments were unsealed in the Southern District of Florida on Wednesday, charging 13 South Florida individuals with extortion conspiracy, credit card fraud, money laundering, firearms smuggling, marriage fraud, and health care fraud, among other crimes.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers never know who or what they may encounter, so they have to be prepared for everything.

ICE Special Agent Jaime Zapata was shot and killed in the line of duty Tuesday afternoon in Mexico.

Two ICE special agents assigned to the ICE Attaché office in Mexico City were shot in the line of duty by unknown assailants.

Fred Woolum of Lexington, Va., was sentenced Feb. 15 in the Western District of Pennsylvania to 15 years in prison for engaging in a child exploitation enterprise, Operation Goodbye, a multi-year ICE HSI cyber investigation based in Pittsburgh, specifically targeted the predator group Woolum was engaged with.

U.S. ICE is now using a federal information-sharing capability in the entire state of New Mexico, which helps federal immigration officials use biometrics to identify aliens, both lawfully and unlawfully present in the United States, who are booked into local law enforcement's custody for a crime. This capability is part of Secure Communities...

On Tuesday, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) began using a federal information sharing capability in Barrow, Newton and Walton counties that helps federal immigration officials use biometrics to identify aliens, both lawfully and unlawfully present in the U.S., who are booked into local law enforcement's custody for a crime.

Earlier this afternoon, two U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) special agents assigned to the ICE Attache office in Mexico City were shot in the line of duty while driving between Mexico City and Monterrey, Mexico, by unknown assailants.

"A citizen of China, who last resided in Queens, N.Y., pleaded guilty Tuesday to one count of access-device fraud stemming from a credit card ""bust out"" scheme. The scheme defrauded financial institutions of more than 200,000K in a case investigated by U.S. ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), with the cooperation of federal, state and..."