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March 19, 2024
|Contraband
Savannah Nicole Valdez, a 21-year-old resident of Houston, was sentenced in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas to 15 months in federal prison to be immediately followed by three years of supervised release.
March 19, 2024
|Enforcement and Removal
County executives and ERO Baltimore leadership agreed on Feb. 27 to cooperate on apprehending and removing violent noncitizen offenders from Montgomery County communities.
March 19, 2024
|Child Exploitation
Rayvon Birden, 26, of Raleigh, North Carolina, entered the guilty plea on March 13 at the U.S. District Court in Charlottesville, Virginia.
March 19, 2024
|Contraband
Kenneth Fleming and Akua Mosaics, Inc. (“Akua Mosaics”) pleaded guilty March 19 to a conspiracy to smuggle goods into the United States in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 371 and 545, announced W. Stephen Muldrow, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico.
March 19, 2024
|Enforcement and Removal
The 30-year-old unlawfully present Honduran citizen is wanted by authorities in Honduras for the crime of homicide using a firearm.
March 19, 2024
|Cyber Crimes, Narcotics
Special agents with HSI Philadelphia, Los Angeles, and Seattle Field Offices, along with HSI Brussels, and the National Police Force of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, coordinated the international takedown of four domain servers allegedly used to sell fake pharmaceutical grade drugs, some of which contained methamphetamine and fentanyl and were unlawfully distributed across the United States.
March 18, 2024
|Enforcement and Removal
On March 15, ERO New York City arrested Maria Oliva Guaman, an unlawfully present citizen of Ecuador convicted by the New York Supreme Court of felony manslaughter.
March 16, 2024
|Document and Benefit Fraud
On Jan. 11, Nino Valmeo, 47, was sentenced to three years of supervised release with the first six months on home confinement after pleading guilty in August 2023.
March 15, 2024
|Statement
ICE engages with stakeholders nationwide, including state, local, tribal, territorial governments, elected officials, and law enforcement, the private sector, faith-based organizations and colleges and universities.
March 15, 2024
|Statement
ICE engages with stakeholders nationwide, including state, local, tribal, territorial governments, elected officials, and law enforcement, the private sector, faith-based organizations and colleges and universities.
March 15, 2024
|Enforcement and Removal
Those included removal flights to Central America, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, and Peru. If a noncitizen arrives and has no legal basis to remain in the United States they will be processed and removed quickly, consistent with U.S. law.
March 15, 2024
|Child Exploitation
Alfonso Salcido Herrera, 46, pleaded guilty in federal court to the same charge on March 30, 2023.
March 15, 2024
|Child Exploitation
In addition, Sam David Harris Jr., 38, of Middleburg, must serve a lifetime of supervised release. The court also ordered Harris to pay $65,500 in restitution to the victims of his offenses. Harris pleaded guilty on Sept. 21, 2023.
March 15, 2024
|Enforcement and Removal
On March 12, ERO New York City arrested an unlawfully present Salvadoran citizen with convictions in New York for the crimes of murder in aid of racketeering, assault and driving while intoxicated.
March 15, 2024
|Child Exploitation
Eric Lavon Williams, 36, of Pima, pleaded guilty to one count of knowing access of child pornography on July 12, 2023. When Williams is released from prison, he will be on supervised release for the remainder of his life and will be required to register as a sex offender.
March 15, 2024
|Enforcement and Removal
ERO Baltimore apprehended a Salvadoran noncitizen and documented member of the notorious MS-13 criminal enterprise who has been convicted of multiple crimes in Maryland. Deportation officers from ERO Baltimore’s Fugitive Operations Team arrested the 36-year-old gang member March 5 at his residence in Hyattsville.
March 14, 2024
|Narcotics
Sergio Maximiliano Martinez of Portland, Oregon, became the second person to plead guilty in federal court March 12 to drug trafficking and obstruction of justice charges in a case that began last spring, when Martinez’s then-girlfriend Victoria Carmona was caught trying to smuggle over 40 pounds of cocaine into the United States in her car.
March 14, 2024
|Enforcement and Removal
ERO Boston arrested a 51-year-old unlawfully present Brazilian fugitive being sought by law enforcement authorities in Brazil for the rape of a vulnerable person.
March 14, 2024
|Human Smuggling/Trafficking
Martin Garcia-Velazquez, 42, of San Antonio in Michoacan, Mexico, was also ordered to pay a $5,000 mandatory special assessment in compliance with the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act of 2015, which is bipartisan legislation aimed at increasing services for survivors of human trafficking and strengthening law enforcement.
March 14, 2024
|Firearms, Ammunition and Explosives
John Patrick Gordon Dane, 36, of Virginia Beach, received the four-year prison sentence Feb. 26 at the U.S. District Court in Norfolk.
March 14, 2024
|Enforcement and Removal
ERO Chicago arrested a 44-year-old unlawfully present fugitive being sought by law enforcement authorities in Mexico for aggravated homicide.
March 13, 2024
|Child Exploitation
A federal grand jury returned an indictment March 5 charging Verena May Mathis, 24, of Capitol Heights, with sexual exploitation of a child and with child sex trafficking.
March 13, 2024
|Operational, Professional Responsibility
Today’s announcement is designed to advance these core values — requiring our law enforcement personnel to use body-worn cameras is an important step in modernizing ICE operations while building trust and confidence in our dedicated law enforcement professionals.
March 12, 2024
|Narcotics
Gerardo Ignacio Castillo-Lopez, 32, of Mexico received the 42-month federal prison sentence March 7 at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia in Alexandria.
March 12, 2024
|Enforcement and Removal
Brazilian authorities have sought custody of the Brazilian national since June 2022 for the offense of statutory rape, which is defined under Brazilian law as consensual sexual contact with a person under age 14. He is wanted by a criminal court in the province of Parana, Brazil.
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