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July 29, 2011
|Intellectual Property Rights and Commercial Fraud
A former Sacramento retailer is expected to make his initial appearance in federal court here Friday afternoon following his arrest on charges of trafficking in counterfeit goods.
July 29, 2011
|Child Exploitation
Julian Gonzalez of Mission, Texas, was convicted on Friday of receiving child pornography via the Internet after an investigation conducted by U.S. ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). ICE HSI discovered 136 child pornographic movies of clearly young children engaged in sexually explicit conduct.
July 28, 2011
|Narcotics
Jose Verduzco of El Paso, Texas was sentenced on July 27 to serve five years in prison, following an investigation conducted by special agents with U.S. ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Harrison County Sheriff's Department. During a consensual search of Verduzco's vehicle, deputies discovered five kilograms of cocaine hidden...
July 28, 2011
|Operational
Seven law enforcement agencies will receive between $100,000 and $500,000 each as a result of a cash seizure of more than $2 million dollars during a marijuana trafficking investigation led by U.S. ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
July 28, 2011
|Child Exploitation
On Thursday, Matthew James Bodden, 25, of Nederland, Texas, pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography in a case investigated by U.S. ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), Beaumont Police Department (BPD) and the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office (JCSO).
July 28, 2011
|Transnational Gangs
Jose Ciro Juarez-Santamaria, a Salvadoran national and MS-13 gang leader, was convicted of prostituting a 12-year-old female with clients throughout northern Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C, following an investigation by U.S. ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
July 27, 2011
|Intellectual Property Rights and Commercial Fraud
U.S. ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) served court orders seizing 16 domain names of websites selling counterfeit goods over the Internet and arrested an upstate New York man for producing and selling counterfeit goods. This operation, dubbed "Shoe Clerk," is the sixth phase of "Operation in Our Sites".
July 27, 2011
|Narcotics
Joseph Muniz pleaded guilty Thursday in U.S. District Court to conspiring to distribute heroin using inbound international flights to Newark Liberty International Airport, following an investigation by U.S. ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
July 27, 2011
|Financial Crimes
Melvin Taplet, Jr., formerly of Elkton, Md., was sentenced to 10 years in prison on a federal charge stemming from a foiled murder-for-hire plot, following an investigation by U.S. ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). The plot was unraveled with Taplet's arrest before anyone was harmed.
July 27, 2011
|Document and Benefit Fraud
Isabel Wilson a.k.a. Isabel Freeman, a former live-in home healthcare aide for an elderly couple suffering from dementia, was convicted on Wednesday of various identity theft-related crimes. The guilty verdict was a result of a joint investigation by U.S. ICE's Enforcement Removal Operations (ERO) and the U.S. Secret Service.
July 27, 2011
|Detainee Death Notifications
Irene Bamenga, a French citizen and Angolan national in the custody of U.S. ICE, passed away early Wednesday morning at the Albany Memorial Hospital due to an apparent heart condition.
July 27, 2011
|Child Exploitation
On Thursday, Louis E. Gray, 40, of Fort Worth, Texas, pleaded guilty to one count of possessing child pornography in a case investigated by U.S. ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
July 26, 2011
|Intellectual Property Rights and Commercial Fraud
"U.S. ICE doesn't take counterfeit drugs lightly. ""It is intellectual property theft,"" said Robert Rutt, director of the National Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Coordination Center. ""But these criminals aren't just stealing someone's idea. They are playing with people's lives."""
July 26, 2011
|Document and Benefit Fraud
A federal grand jury has indicted a former Sacramento immigration consultant and 13 other individuals alleging they participated in an elaborate immigration fraud scheme in which foreign nationals from Eastern Europe and Russia paid to enter into sham marriages with locally recruited U.S. citizens.
July 26, 2011
|Labor Exploitation
One of the nation's largest retailers is partnering with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to strengthen its hiring practices and help ensure it is employing a legal workforce.
July 25, 2011
|Child Exploitation
Rafael Gonzalez was arrested Friday on a criminal complaint for distribution and possession of child pornography following an investigation by U.S. ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Brevard County Sheriff's Office.
July 25, 2011
|Enforcement and Removal
Mauricio Antonio Alvarenga-Vasquez, an MS-13 gang member from El Salvador, was arrested by U.S. ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the West Orange, N.J. Police Department.
July 25, 2011
|Human Smuggling/Trafficking
The Department of Homeland Security, Department of Justice, and Department of Labor announced the selection of Pilot Anti-Trafficking Coordination Teams (ACTeams) as part of a nationwide initiative to combat human trafficking. The initiative is designed to streamline federal criminal investigations and prosecutions of human trafficking offenses.
July 25, 2011
|Financial Crimes
A New Hampshire woman was sentenced in federal court in Concord Monday in a drug smuggling and money laundering case investigated jointly with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
July 25, 2011
|Child Exploitation
Matthew J. Merideth, 34, of Amarillo, Texas, formerly of Saginaw, Texas, has been in federal custody since his arrest in October 2010 on a related charge in a federal criminal complaint.
July 25, 2011
|Operational
The operator of a Los Angeles-area foreign trade zone (FTZ) and eight other individuals face federal charges, including smuggling, money laundering and wire fraud violations, for illegally importing nearly 200 shipments of Chinese-made apparel into the United States to avoid millions of dollars in import duties.
July 22, 2011
|Financial Crimes
Renjie Huang and Yong Xu, two Chinese nationals from the Los Angeles area, made their initial appearance in federal court Friday afternoon following their arrest on charges stemming from their role in a retail theft ring that used counterfeit credit cards to buy high-end electronics from Wal-Mart stores throughout the Los Angeles area.
July 21, 2011
|Document and Benefit Fraud
Two individuals were making thousands per month selling packages of fraudulent documents for about $150 to $200.
July 21, 2011
|Document and Benefit Fraud
Two members of a highly sophisticated and violent fraudulent document trafficking organization based in Mexico, with cells in 19 cities within the United States and 11 states, including three cells in Virginia, have been sentenced for their roles in the operation.
July 21, 2011
|Labor Exploitation
Following an investigation and audit of Form I-9 documents by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), 14 New England employers have been fined this fiscal year for various violations that enabled companies to hire illegal aliens.
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