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Florencia Renderos Morales, 24, of Houston, Texas, entered a guilty plea to one count of obstruction of justice. She faces up to 20 years in federal prison with three years of supervised release and $500,000 in fines.

Individuals who lack a lawful basis to stay in the United States are ordered removed, consistent with U.S. law – all individuals who are removed have been screened for protection concerns.

HSI Baltimore and HSI Atlanta partnered with the Atlanta Police Department, the National Police Athletic League (PAL), the Atlanta PAL, WNBA Legends and a local sporting goods and outdoor store to conduct a back-to-school “Kids Shop with a Cop Holiday” event.

Juan Carlos Portillo, 29, an illegally present foreign fugitive, was wanted in El Salvador for aggravated kidnapping, attempted aggravated homicide, aggravated extortion, terrorist organization, deprivation of liberty and aggravated homicide.

Jose Antonio Argueta Dominguez, 23, was escorted by ERO officers from Buffalo to San Salvador, El Salvador, where he was transferred to El Salvadoran authorities.

Angel Bladimir Diaz Luna, 30, was escorted by ERO officers from Buffalo to San Salvador, El Salvador, where he was transferred to El Salvadoran authorities.

Shantel Hernandez made her initial appearance in federal court Aug. 10.

According to the HSI-led investigation, Ana Patricia Landaverde, 47, a citizen of El Salvador; Jeffrey Dean Vaughan, 64, of Williamsburg; George William Evans, 68, of Midlothian; and Salvador Jeronimo-Sis, a citizen of Guatemala, engaged in a conspiracy to harbor, transport and benefit from employing undocumented noncitizens at their commercial laundry business, Northstar Holdings of Virginia, LLC, d/b/a Magnolia Cleaning Services, LLC.

Jason Curtis Caldwell, 42, was sentenced in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas to 210 months in federal prison to be immediately followed by five years of supervised release for conspiring to possess with intent to distribute fentanyl. Caldwell pleaded guilty to the charges on Jan. 6.

All arrests took place in the assigned ERO Seattle states of Alaska, Washington and Oregon, though the criminal history may include convictions in courts in other parts of the United States.

According to court documents, Ezennia Peter Neboh, 48; Kennedy Ikponmwosa, 52; and Jerry Chucks Ozor, 43, were part of a group of fraudsters that sent personalized letters to elderly victims in the United States.

Jose Erick Ramos Cruz, a 45-year-old unlawfully present Salvadoran fugitive, was flown from Alexandria, Louisiana, on a flight coordinated by ICE's Air Operations Unit to the Monseñor Óscar Arnulfo Romero International Airport in San Salvador, El Salvador.

Deira Alan Glover, 33, of Harlingen, was sentenced by 357th State District Court Judge Juan Magallanes to 480 months of imprisonment in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice’s Correctional Institutions Division. Glover pleaded guilty Aug. 7, prior to jury selection.

Individuals who lack a lawful basis to stay in the United States are ordered removed, consistent with U.S. law – all individuals who are removed have been screened for protection concerns.

The 28-year-old Brazilian citizen unlawfully entered the United States some time prior to August 2023. In March 2023, a criminal court in the city of Tarumirim, in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, began actively seeking custody of the fugitive on the charge of aggravated murder, a crime he is alleged to have committed in January 2017.

Deportation officers from ERO Baltimore’s Criminal Apprehension Program took the 19-year-old noncitizen into custody at his residence in Hyattsville on Aug. 2 and served him with papers ordering him to appear before an immigration judge.

Edwin Kelly-Espinoza, 21, was flown to Honduras on a flight coordinated by ICE’s Air Operations Unit.

According to court documents, Jose Roman, 43, Marcos Valencia Jr, 32, Ezequil Castro, 37, and Juan Gonzalez, all of Kansas City, Kansas; Manuel Alvarez, 28, of Seneca, Manuel Faudoa, 23, of Dodge City and Gerardo Sierra-Martinez, 21, of Kansas City, Missouri, are charged with one count of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine.

Manuel De Jesus Guzman, 19, of Rio Rico, was sentenced to 18 months in prison and Joshua Francisco Mendez, 19, of Tucson, was sentenced to one year and one day to prison; both sentences will be followed by three years of supervised released; Guzman and Mendez pleaded guilty to Smuggling Goods from the United States.

ERO Chicago’s Fugitive Operations Team arrested an unlawfully present Venezuelan national Aug. 8, 2023.

Jeffrey A. Knight, 32, pleaded guilty in federal court Aug. 8 to recording his sexual abuse of a seven-year-old victim and sharing a video of the abuse online.

The HSI C3's Child Exploitation Investigations Unit completed Operation Renewed Hope last week, resulting in the generation of 311 probable identifications of previously unknown victims, including 14 positive contacts and several confirmed victim rescues from active abuse.

A federal grand jury returned seven indictments on April 19 and July 19, and a criminal complaint was issued on Aug. 1 as part of the investigation.

The fossils were recovered through HSI investigations conducted by our offices in Arizona, New York, and Wyoming, and the collection was represented by a tyrannosaurus bataar skull, protoceratops fossil, alioramus skull, and saurolophus skull.

This IFR permits ICE to conduct an entirely electronic transaction with obligors posting bonds online when enrolling in ICE’s electronic bond systems.