News Releases and Statements

Chad Williams Wesevich, 40, and his brother Jamie Wesevich, 41, both residents of Corpus Christi, were sentenced Feb. 7 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas to serve 360, 240 and 60 months, respectively, for conspiracy to manufacture and possess with intent to distribute fentanyl, conspiracy to commit money laundering, and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.

Jorge Henry Clarke Figueroa, 45, departed Salt Lake City International Airport in Salt Lake City and arrived at the Comodoro Arturo Merino Benitez International Airport in Santiago, Chile.

According to court documents, a Brewster County sheriff’s deputy stopped Ana Cristina Alarcon Rios, 24, of Chihuahua, for speeding along Highway 90 in Alpine.

ICE's ERO officers apprehended 26 unlawfully present noncitizens with pending charges or convictions for murder, homicide and assault against children during a nationwide law enforcement effort that ran from Jan. 16-28.

ICE, working in coordination with DHS and CBP, facilitated removal flights, including single adults and family units to Bangladesh, Central America, Colombia, Ecuador and Mexico,  Feb. 5 – 7.

Officers with ICE's ERO Seattle removed Igor Lekomtsev, 45, a citizen of Russia, Jan. 26.

ERO Boston arrested a Honduran national and member of the notorious 18th Street gang who has multiple U.S. convictions and is wanted in his home country for drug distribution charges.

Fredi Zagala-Servin, 40, of Kaufman, was sentenced Feb. 7 to 97 months in prison for being a longtime leader and organizer of a human smuggling organization that smuggled hundreds of undocumented noncitizens from Laredo to San Antonio inside semitractor-trailers.

According to court documents, Armando Leonardo Moreno aka Cholo, conspired with other TCO members on or around Sept. 13, 2021, to kidnap a subject from an El Paso stash house.

Partnership between law enforcement organizations ultimately helps to further protect and serve the communities we live and work in.

ERO Boston arrested a Brazilian sex offender Jan. 25 who was recently convicted of assault and battery and indecent assault and battery.

ICE's ERO San Antonio field office apprehended eight unlawfully present noncitizens with pending charges or convictions for murder, homicide or assault against children during a nationwide law enforcement effort from Jan. 16 to Jan. 28.

According to UNICEF, more than 200 million individuals alive today have undergone FGM/C, which refers to procedures that injure the female genital organs for non-medical reasons.

The operation targeted 16 unlawfully present foreign nationals and resulted in 10 arrests.

Transparency efforts between the federal government and non-governmental organizations is vital to providing an understanding and awareness of the agency’s operational policies and procedures.

The 42-year-old Mexican citizen, who also holds Guatemalan citizenship, unlawfully entered the United States at an unknown location, on an unknown date prior to December 2004, without being inspected or admitted by a U.S. immigration official.

All arrests took place in the assigned ERO Seattle states of Alaska, Washington and Oregon, with criminal convictions made by courts in Washington and Oregon.

ERO Baltimore apprehended an undocumented Salvadoran noncitizen convicted of illegally possessing an unregistered firearm. Deportation officers from ERO Baltimore’s Criminal Apprehension Program arrested the 24-year-old member of the notorious MS-13 street gang Jan. 10 at his residence in Silver Spring.

ERO Harlingen apprehended six unlawfully present noncitizens with pending charges or convictions for murder, homicide or assault against children during a nationwide law enforcement effort from January 16-28.

ERO Philadelphia removed Thalles Mendes Ribeiro, a citizen of Brazil with a final order of removal, to Brazil on Jan. 26. Mendes is a foreign fugitive wanted by law enforcement authorities in Brazil for false imprisonment and rape.

ICE, working in coordination with DHS and CBP, facilitated removal flights, including single adults and family units to Central America, Colombia, Ecuador, Egypt, Mauritania, Mexico, Peru and Senegal, Jan. 29 – Feb. 2.

ICE's ERO officers apprehended 26 unlawfully present noncitizens with pending charges or convictions for murder, homicide and assault against children during a nationwide law enforcement effort that ran from January 16 to 28. 

Those arrested include a 51-year-old citizen of El Salvador arrested in Salt Lake City. In July 2009, the Third District Court in Salt Lake City convicted this noncitizen of misdemeanor negligent homicide; she will remain in ICE custody pending removal proceedings.

During the arrest, ERO officers also located an assault rifle, a pistol, and large amounts of ammunition for both weapons.

ICE focuses on the arrest of noncitizens who have committed crimes and other individuals who have violated our nation’s immigration laws.