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March 7, 2024
|Child Exploitation
The court also sentenced Dominic Lawrence Carsi, 34, Naples, to a term of supervised release for life and ordered him to register as a sex offender. Carsi pleaded guilty Oct. 31, 2023.
March 7, 2024
|Narcotics
Juan Carlos Perlaza Caicedo aka Olindo Perlaza Caicedo aka Gafas, 45, of Colombia pleaded guilty to producing and transporting several tons of cocaine from Colombia to Central America beginning in at least 2002.
March 7, 2024
|Enforcement and Removal, Child Exploitation
ERO New York City Fugitive Operations officers apprehended 32 unlawfully present noncitizens convicted of sex offenses during a nationwide law enforcement effort from Feb. 5 to Feb. 16.
March 7, 2024
|Firearms, Ammunition and Explosives, Narcotics
If convicted, Reginald Dugger, 42, of Orlando, faces a maximum penalty of 30 years in federal prison for the drug offense and up to 15 years in federal prison for the firearm offense.
March 6, 2024
|Narcotics
A superseding indictment was partially unsealed in the Southern District of California March 5 charging alleged drug trafficker Benjamin Madrigal-Birrueta, 22, with murdering two people to prevent them from testifying in drug trafficking cases in federal court in San Diego.
March 6, 2024
|Enforcement and Removal
ERO Boston arrested an unlawfully present, 30-year-old convicted sex offender Feb. 12 in Barnstable.
March 6, 2024
|Enforcement and Removal
ERO Boston arrested an unlawfully present 61-year-old registered sex offender and citizen of Jamaica convicted locally of sexual assault of a minor child.
March 6, 2024
|Child Exploitation
On Feb. 29, a federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico indicted Kiara Ramos Melendez, 29, with one count of coercion and enticement of a minor and one count of receipt of child exploitation material.
March 6, 2024
|Enforcement and Removal
ERO Boston removed 52-year-old Antonio Dos Santos from the United States to Brazil Feb. 23 after arresting him on federal immigration violations near his residence in Plymouth on Oct. 18, 2023.
March 5, 2024
|Contraband
CBP officers and agriculture specialists intercepted two howler monkeys at the Brownsville and Matamoros International Bridge and turned them over to federal authorities. HSI Rio Grande Valley and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service initiated a criminal investigation and are working the case together.
March 5, 2024
|Narcotics
Allan Alberto Moreno Trevino, 41, of Mexico, pleaded guilty before a federal judge March 5.
March 5, 2024
|Enforcement and Removal
ERO Washington, D.C. arrested an unlawfully present Guatemalan noncitizen convicted Feb. 9 for aggravated sexual battery of a Virginia minor.
March 5, 2024
|Contraband
Michael Hart, 58, of San Diego, was arrested March 4 and charged with smuggling potent greenhouse gases into the United States from Mexico and selling them for profit, violating regulations intended to curb the use of greenhouse gases and slow climate change.
March 4, 2024
|Enforcement and Removal
Deportation officers from ERO Boston removed 31-year-old Raul Thalison De Oliveira-Silva from the United States to Brazil Feb. 23.
March 4, 2024
|Enforcement and Removal
ERO San Francisco arrested an individual Feb. 22 who had an outstanding warrant issued by the District Court in Zacatecas, Mexico, for the rape of a child.
March 4, 2024
|Enforcement and Removal
By using an intelligence-driven enforcement model, ERO Washington, D.C. makes efficient use of limited resources to promote public safety in communities across throughout Washington, D.C. and Virginia.
March 4, 2024
|Financial Crimes
Noel Chimezuru Agoha, 40, of Baltimore, received the sentence Feb. 28 for conspiracy to commit wire fraud. The judge also ordered Agoha to pay $1 million in restitution.
March 4, 2024
|Enforcement and Removal
ICE ERO and the Martin County Florida Sheriff’s Office arrested Juan Jose-Sebastian, 26, a citizen and national of Guatemala March 2, after determining he was wanted in Washington County, Oregon, on rape and sexual abuse charges.
March 4, 2024
|Enforcement and Removal
Deportation officers with ERO Phoenix removed Jose Inez Garcia-Zarate, 49, a Mexican national who was removed on six previous occasions, via commercial air to Mexico March 1.
March 3, 2024
|Statement
As one of its private detention contractors, it is imperative for the agency to engage with valued partners to ensure continued understanding of our changing mission space and the shared responsibility of appropriate care for those in custody.
March 2, 2024
|Child Exploitation
According to court documents, from December 2022 through Jan. 25, 2023, Marrero Casanova used a cellphone and instant messaging services to persuade, induce, entice and coerce two 15-year-old boys to engage in sexual activity so he could produce a visual depiction of it.
March 1, 2024
|Statement
ICE provided an overview to stakeholders this week on the recently announced ERO eFile, a new web-based paperless system for immigration attorneys and accredited representatives to provide information about their eligibility to act on behalf of noncitizens in ICE custody through secure online communications.
March 1, 2024
|Enforcement and Removal
Deportation officers from ERO Boston removed Edimir Gustavo Eckelberg, 62, from the United States to Brazil Jan. 26. Eckelberg had been sought by Brazilian law enforcement authorities since his conviction for rape of a vulnerable child in May 2023.
March 1, 2024
|Enforcement and Removal
Those included removal flights to Central America, Colombia, Ecuador, Jamaica, Mexico, Peru and South Korea.
March 1, 2024
|Child Exploitation
On Aug. 2, 2023, HSI agents notified the Navajo County Sheriff’s Office Major Crimes Apprehension Team that they had discovered Joshuah Cruz Eberhart, 25, of Clay Springs, was distributing child sex abuse material online.
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