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January 28, 2011
|Document and Benefit Fraud
Three employees of a Reno-based immigration consulting firm were arrested Friday on state criminal charges following an investigation by the Nevada Attorney General's Office and U.S. ICE's HSI into allegations they orchestrated a multi-state scam that included impersonating employees of US CIS.
January 28, 2011
|Counter Proliferation Investigation Unit
The manager of a Massachusetts electronics company was sentenced today to 36 months in prison for conspiring over a period of 10 years to export military electronics components and sensitive electronics used in military systems to the People's Republic of China (PRC).
January 28, 2011
|Intellectual Property Rights and Commercial Fraud
"A China national pleaded guilty earlier this week to charges of trafficking and attempting to traffic in counterfeit goods, namely counterfeit versions of the pharmaceutical weight-loss drug known as ""Alli."" "
January 28, 2011
|Child Exploitation
James Dennis Wickline, 54, of San Diego, had been employed as a regional director for an office cleaning company. He was sentenced here Wednesday by U.S. District Court Judge M. James Lorenz. In addition, Judge Lorenz sentenced the defendant to a 12-year period of supervised release following his prison term.
January 27, 2011
|Narcotics
A U.S permanent resident from Dallas, Texas, will be spending more than 11 years in federal prison without parole for trafficking heroin and methamphetamine as a result of an investigation conducted by U.S. ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
January 27, 2011
|Child Exploitation
A former local Boys and Girls Club director was sentenced to 80 months in federal prison on Wednesday, following a child pornography investigation by special agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
January 27, 2011
|Human Smuggling/Trafficking
Mary Jesse Cuadros, 24, of Houston, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Lee H. Rosenthal. She has been in custody since her May 1, 2009 arrest, and will remain in federal custody through her transfer to a Bureau of Prisons facility where she will serve out her sentence.
January 27, 2011
|Financial Crimes
Mohamad Youssef Hammoud, 37, was resentenced Thursday to 30 years in prison on charges related to his activities of providing material support to the foreign terrorist organization, Hezbollah, from about 1995 to July 2000 in Charlotte.
January 27, 2011
|Human Smuggling/Trafficking
Special agents with U.S. ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) arrested today one of ICE's top ten fugitives at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York. Veniamin Gonikman, 55, was charged in Detroit in 2005 in a 22-count indictment with trafficking in persons, forced labor, alien smuggling, money laundering, extortion collection...
January 27, 2011
|Child Exploitation
Shelton Peter Fruge, 35, of Lake Charles, was sentenced to 60 years in prison and a lifetime of supervised release for production of child pornography, to run consecutively with his state sentence.
January 27, 2011
|Intellectual Property Rights and Commercial Fraud
With the Pro Bowl kickoff fast approaching, special agents with U.S. ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) here in the host city seized more than 135 items of counterfeit NFL apparel Wednesday in an operation targeting vendors at two popular Honolulu-area swap meets, including one based at the stadium where Sunday's game will be played.
January 27, 2011
|Labor Exploitation
Anthony DiBenedetto, 64, of North Branford, Conn., waived his right to indictment and pleaded guilty yesterday to one count of unlawful employment of illegal aliens as the result of an investigation conducted by U.S. ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
January 26, 2011
|Enforcement and Removal
Across the world, fugitives evade law enforcement by fleeing countries where they've committed crimes. Since August 2010, ICE's Fugitive Alien Removal Program has removed 27 individuals from the United States who were wanted overseas.
January 25, 2011
|Firearms, Ammunition and Explosives
Oliver King, who is also known as Hamid Malekpour, 35, was arrested by HSI agents on May 19, 2010, in Ferndale, Wash., after traveling from Canada to McMinnville, Ore., and back to Ferndale over a two-day period.
January 25, 2011
|Narcotics
Special agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) on Monday turned over to the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic of Mexico (PGR) a Mexican national who allegedly attempted to smuggle 244 pounds of marijuana into the United States.
January 25, 2011
|Labor Exploitation
Aetna Fire Alarm Service Company, Inc. has signed the state's first-ever agreement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to strengthen hiring practices and to combat the unlawful employment of illegal aliens.
January 25, 2011
|Human Smuggling/Trafficking
The owners and operators of six massage parlors and a legal brothel were sentenced to 16 months in prison and two years of supervised release, following an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) into prostitution and money laundering.
January 25, 2011
|Child Exploitation
The grand jury alleges that Jonathan Binns of Shenandoah, Pa., produced images of child pornography and used a computer to download and distribute images of child pornography between February and October 2010.
January 25, 2011
|Child Exploitation
The complaint alleges that late in the evening on Jan. 10, 2010, Daniel Feneis, 24, from Sears, Mich., and a 14-year-old girl identified as Jane Doe in the complaint, left Michigan together and intending to start "a new life" in St. Louis, Mo. Feneis and Jane Doe had been involved in a sexual relationship in Michigan for about six months.
January 25, 2011
|Enforcement and Removal
On Tuesday, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) began using a federal information sharing capability in Hardin County that 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.
January 25, 2011
|Document and Benefit Fraud
Immigration attorney Parmesh N. Dixit, 40, of Alpharetta, Ga.,was indicted Tuesday by a federal grand jury on charges of visa fraud, alien harboring, and conspiracy, following an investigation by U.S. ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the United States Department of Labor.
January 25, 2011
|Enforcement and Removal
With the expansion of the biometric information sharing capability to Henry, Rockdale and Spalding counties, ICE is using this capability in 13 Georgia jurisdictions, including Clayton, DeKalb, Gwinnett, Cobb, Fulton, Muscogee, Hall, Whitfield, Cherokee and Forsyth counties.
January 25, 2011
|Financial Crimes
Ismael B. Rodriguez, 45, the owner of Cazadores Mexican Restaurants in Pensacola, was sentenced Tuesday to 5 years in federal prison for mail fraud and conspiracy, following a joint investigation by U.S. ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Florida Department of Financial Services - Fraud Division.
January 25, 2011
|Enforcement and Removal
On Tuesday, five northern California counties - Colusa, Nevada, Plumas, Sutter and Tehama - became the latest in the state to benefit from a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) federal information-sharing capability that 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.
January 24, 2011
|Child Exploitation
Kenneth S. King, 63, of Fort Worth, Texas, who was ordered to surrender to the Bureau of Prisons by the end of next month, must also register as a sex offender and pay a $5000 fine.
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