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September 15, 2011
|Narcotics
A Los Angeles-area man made his initial appearance in federal court Thursday on drug trafficking charges following his arrest at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) for attempting to smuggle nearly five pounds of methamphetamine through airport security, all of which concealed inside snack food bags in his backpack.
September 15, 2011
|Labor Exploitation
Five senior managers of the former IFCO Systems, N.A., a Houston-based corporation, pleaded guilty to hiring and employing unauthorized aliens at IFCO plants nationwide between January 2003 and April 2006.
September 15, 2011
|Child Exploitation
Bryan Ross Spears pleaded guilty Thursday to receiving videos depicting child pornography over the Internet, following an investigation by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Volusia County Sheriff's Office.
September 15, 2011
|Document and Benefit Fraud
The owner of a Los Angeles-area immigration consulting business and one of his employees are expected to make their initial appearance in federal court Thursday for their alleged role in a scheme involving hundreds of Chinese nationals who sought asylum in the United States based upon phony claims of religious persecution.
September 15, 2011
|Child Exploitation
Jeff Coon, 36, of Niagara Falls, N.Y., possessed child pornography videos on two computer hard drives and two disks at his residence in Niagara Falls in April 2009. Some of the children shown in the videos were prepubescent or minors under 12-years-old. Some of the videos portrayed sadistic or masochistic conduct or other depictions of violence.
September 15, 2011
|Operational
A Florida orange juice manufacturer and three Tampa Bay area counties are partnering with ICE to reduce fraud and the hiring of illegal workers. Cutrale Citrus Juices USA, Inc., and the Boards of County Commissioners for Hernando, Pasco and Citrus counties officially became IMAGE partners at a signing ceremony in Tampa Thursday.
September 15, 2011
|Transnational Gangs
Special agents with ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), in close partnership with local law enforcement, arrested 25 individuals during a week-long operation that ended late Tuesday. This is the latest local effort in an ongoing national ICE initiative to target foreign-born gang members.
September 15, 2011
|Child Exploitation
A previously convicted sex offender from Huntington Beach, Calif., pleaded guilty Thursday to production of child pornography and agreed to serve a 26-year prison term for filming an 8-year-old girl engaged in sexually explicit conduct.
September 14, 2011
|Child Exploitation
According to the plea agreement, in September and November 2010, Larry W. Warner, Jr., 33, of Joppa, Md., posted advertisements in an online website seeking girls' underwear for him to use in an act which Warner described in a sexually explicit manner.
September 14, 2011
|Narcotics
Jose Sarinana-Placencia, the alleged leader of a drug smuggling organization accused of moving thousands of pounds of marijuana between Maricopa, Ariz., and the Phoenix metropolitan area was arrested following a major multi-agency enforcement operation led by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Pinal County Sheriff's Office (PCSO).
September 14, 2011
|Narcotics
An indictment charging five former airline employees for their role in drug smuggling operations out of U.S. airports was announced today following an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
September 14, 2011
|Enforcement and Removal
In two unrelated immigration cases, two men received substantial prison sentences following their convictions for illegally re-entering the United States after being previously deported, announced U.S. Attorney James T. Jacks of the Northern District of Texas.
September 14, 2011
|Document and Benefit Fraud
A Maryland man was sentenced to two years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiracy to produce and transfer Maryland driver's licenses and identification cards without lawful authority.
September 14, 2011
|Enforcement and Removal
Efrain Espinoza-Quintana, a Mexican citizen wanted in his native country for his involvement in a fight in May 2006 in which he is accused of killing a man with a handgun, was turned over to prosecutors from the Mexican Attorney General's Office at the border crossing here Tuesday by agents from ICE's Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO).
September 14, 2011
|Transnational Gangs
Two former jail officials and one alleged member of the 'Raza Unida' prison gang have been sentenced to prison for conspiring to bribe public officials, announced United States Attorney Jose Angel Moreno on Wednesday.
September 14, 2011
|Labor Exploitation
The former owner of a Massachusetts-based asbestos abatement training school was sentenced to more than seven years in a federal prison Tuesday in a case investigated jointly with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
September 14, 2011
|Human Smuggling/Trafficking
A Mexican citizen was sentenced to more than 21 years in prison Tuesday following his guilty plea in a violent human smuggling case investigated by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). David Alejo-Ortiz led a violent group of alien smugglers who, in May 2008, physically, verbally and sexually abused at least 23 hostages in Phoenix.
September 13, 2011
|Narcotics
A woman from Spain was sentenced to a year and a day in prison on Wednesday for her role in illegally importing more than five kilograms of cocaine into the United States.
September 13, 2011
|Child Exploitation
Timothy Whitaker, 46, of Baltimore, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz. Judge Motz ordered that upon his release from prison, Whitaker is required to register as a sex offender in the place where he resides, where he is an employee, and where he is a student, under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA).
September 13, 2011
|Narcotics
Two women have pleaded guilty to marijuana trafficking crimes. The investigation is being conducted by federal, state and local law enforcement agencies, including U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
September 13, 2011
|Cultural Property, Art and Antiquities Investigations
The z-angle pre-Columbian feasting bowl was created by Mayan Indians. It is nearly 1800 years old.
September 13, 2011
|Human Smuggling/Trafficking
Veniamin Gonikman pleaded guilty Tuesday to crimes related to an international conspiracy to compel women to work in exotic dance clubs in the Detroit-area. He is the ninth and final member of the charged conspiracy to be convicted. The investigation was conducted by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
September 13, 2011
|Document and Benefit Fraud
Juan Arroyo-Pantoja, 33, of Wilmington, N.C., was sentenced today to 44 months in prison after pleading guilty to participating in a racketeering conspiracy with cells in 19 cities within the United States and 11 states, including three cells in Virginia. The conspiracy was investigated by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
September 13, 2011
|Child Exploitation
Roger Elkins, 45, of Bossier City, La., pleaded guilty to the distribution and receipt of child pornography.
September 13, 2011
|Child Exploitation
HSI teams with federal, state and local law enforcement agencies to prevent child exploitation throughout New England. The Internet Crimes Against Children Task Forces help state and local law enforcement agencies develop an effective response to cyber enticement and child pornography cases.
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