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January 5, 2024
|Enforcement and Removal, Child Exploitation
On Jan. 3, ERO New York City’s Newburgh suboffice arrested an unlawfully present citizen of Guatemala convicted by Rockland County Court of first-degree sex abuse: sexual contact with individual less than 11 years old.
January 5, 2024
|Human Smuggling/Trafficking
According to court documents, Erminia Serrano Piedra aka Irma aka Boss Lady, 32, conspired with at least 14 other members of a human smuggling organization she led that facilitated the unlawful transportation and movement of hundreds of migrants within the United States and harbored and concealed the migrants from law enforcement authorities.
January 4, 2024
|Document and Benefit Fraud
ERO designed and launched Operation False Haven in late 2019 to identify and target child sexual abusers and other egregious felons who were convicted after naturalizing for offenses they committed and concealed during the naturalization process.
January 3, 2024
|Enforcement and Removal
ICE, working in coordination with DHS and CBP, facilitated removal flights, including single adults and family units to Central America, Ecuador, and Venezuela, Jan. 3.
January 3, 2024
|Document and Benefit Fraud
Nora Nely Avila, 35, pleaded guilty Jan. 3 after she fraudulently presented a nursing license.
January 3, 2024
|Firearms, Ammunition and Explosives
Rolando Herrera, 26, pleaded guilty Jan. 3 to conspiracy to smuggle ammunition with intent to promote a felony. His sisters, Ashley Herrera, 22, and Yamileth Herrera, 21, entered their guilty pleas Dec. 12, 2023. All are U.S. citizens and maintain residences in Laredo and Nuevo Laredo in the state of Tamaulipas, Mexico.
January 3, 2024
|Financial Crimes
Amos Prince Okey Ezemma, 50, of Lagos, Nigeria, faces federal charges in Miami. His co-defendants, Ezennia Peter Neboh; Kennedy Ikponmwosa; Iheanyichukwu Jonathan Abraham; 44; Emmanuel Samuel, 39; and Jerry Chucks Ozor, 43; all of London, were all arrested in April 2022 by authorities in Madrid and London. Ezemma remained a fugitive until his surrender and arrest.
January 2, 2024
|Enforcement and Removal
On Dec. 27, deportation officers from the ERO Washington, D.C. field office took custody of Jose Leonardo Marquez-Marquez, a 23-year-old Venezuelan national who was arrested by U.S. Capitol Police on Dec. 26.
January 2, 2024
|Human Smuggling/Trafficking
Ericka Aldana, 40, of Chula Vista, confirmed that she recruited at least five drivers, procured vehicles for their use, obtained passports for them, and coached them on how to dress and answer questions from CBP officers.
December 29, 2023
|Enforcement and Removal
ICE working in coordination with DHS and CBP, facilitated removal flights, including single adults and family units to Central America, Cuba, Haiti and Venezuela from December 26 - 29.
December 29, 2023
|Operational
ICE simultaneously launched its first ever online statistical dashboard for increased transparency into the agency’s operations.
December 29, 2023
|Enforcement and Removal
ERO Baltimore apprehended a 49-year-old undocumented noncitizen who has been convicted of prostitution charges.
December 29, 2023
|Financial Crimes, Covid-19
Dementrous Von Smith, 36, of Waldorf, Maryland, received a sentence of 53 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, Dec. 15, for a wire fraud conspiracy, wire fraud and aggravated identity theft, in relation to the submission of fraudulent CARES Act unemployment insurance claims in Maryland, California, and Arizona totaling at least $1.5 million.
December 28, 2023
|Enforcement and Removal
The Iranian national is also a permanent resident of Canada and a national security priority who is wanted by Canadian authorities on assault charges.
December 28, 2023
|Enforcement and Removal
Deportation officers from the ERO Washington, D.C. field office removed Rojer Mauricio Sarmiento-Gutierres, 45, of Honduras from the United States Dec. 27.
December 27, 2023
|Enforcement and Removal
ICE, working in coordination with DHS and CBP, facilitated removal flights, including single adults and family units to Central America and Venezuela from December 26 - 27
December 26, 2023
|Enforcement and Removal
Marius Caldararu, 25, was removed to Romania on Dec. 12 and turned over to proper authorities to face related charges.
December 22, 2023
|Enforcement and Removal
ICE, working in coordination with DHS and CBP, facilitated removal flights, including single adults and family units to Central America, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Jamaica, Peru, Uzbekistan and Venezuela from December 18 - 22.
December 22, 2023
|Narcotics
HSI San Juan, along with the Puerto Rico Police Bureau and the U.S. Marshals Service, arrested Shaquille Emmanuel Rivera–De Jesus, one of the fugitives of HSI’s Operation Youngblood executed on Sept. 22, 2023.
December 22, 2023
|Management and Administration
U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement named Jennifer Fenton as the Associate Director of ICE OPR, and Angie M. Salazar as the Deputy Associate Director Dec. 19.
December 21, 2023
|Enforcement and Removal
CoreCivic and the GEO Group, Inc. each met with agency leadership as part of ongoing conversations between the government and the private sector.
December 21, 2023
|Statement
To aid in the consistent implementation of this important national initiative, OPLA has developed a general framework to handle cases in immigration proceedings on the juvenile dockets.
December 21, 2023
|Enforcement and Removal
The noncitizen entered the United States on an unknown date and at an unknown location without inspection, parole or admission by an immigration official.
December 21, 2023
|Child Exploitation
According to court documents, from June 2022 to July 2022, Resto Colón used his computer and cellular phone to receive one or more images of child exploitation materials via the internet depicting minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct.
December 21, 2023
|Enforcement and Removal
ICE's ERO Los Angeles announced today the arrest of 26 unlawfully present foreign nationals during a local enforcement operation that began on Dec. 18, and concluded on Dec. 20.
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