News Releases and Statements
News Releases and Statements
Two former Department of Defense employees, Adeba Sultana and Mohammad Ali Rabbani, pleaded guilty in federal court Monday to attempting to illegally obtain and illegally obtaining U.S. citizenship following a probe by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Department of State.
Harouna Bangoura, a native and citizen of Guinea and active gang member of the Bloods, was sentenced July 2 to one year in federal prison for willfully failing to comply with the terms and conditions of his release under order of supervision from the custody of ICE's Enforcement Removal Operations (ERO).
Randall V. Roberts pleaded guilty Friday to charges he enticed a minor into illegal sexual activity. The plea follows an investigation by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
Jovana Samaniego Deas, a former special agent with ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), was sentenced Friday to 30 months in federal prison following a multi-agency investigation that revealed she illegally accessed, stole and transferred sensitive U.S. government documents to unauthorized individuals and obstructed HSI investigations.
Tony Alvarez, A 19-year-old local man, pleaded guilty Thursday to one count of possessing child pornography. Alvarez admitted using his computer to search for and download images of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct. He also saved several of these images on his laptop computer and on a memory stick.
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Scott Tartan was sentenced Friday to 17 ½ years in federal prison following his February guilty plea to one count of transporting and shipping child pornography, after child pornography was discovered on a cell phone that he left at a gas station.
John Harlan Mullins, a former Henrico County sheriff's deputy, was sentenced on June 29 to seven years and 11 months in prison for possessing hundreds of child pornography images stored on his computer, following an investigation by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
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A man formerly of Cypress, Texas, and Detroit, Mich., was sentenced Friday to 15 years and eight months in prison for drug trafficking and money laundering. This sentence was announced by U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson, Southern District of Texas.
Abimael Cardenales was sentenced to 60 years in prison for producing child pornography, following an investigation by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Virginia Beach Police Department. Cardenales produced child pornography involving two different special needs minors, ages 13 and 15.
Three Mexican men face federal human smuggling and illegal reentry charges after the drop house they were allegedly operating in Mesa was discovered by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents Wednesday.
ICE's HSI special agents arrested 47-year-old DEA fugitive Juan Carlos Guadalupe-Nunez Thursday in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico. He is wanted in the state of Massachusetts for money laundering.
A local woman was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison Thursday for her role in a conspiracy to transport and harbor illegal aliens, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson, Southern District of Texas.
The Department of Justice and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) has forfeited $401,931 in assets traceable to Diepreye Solomon Peter Alamieyeseigha, a former Governor of Bayelsa State, Nigeria.
Johnny Soza has been indicted by a federal grand jury and accused of enticing a 15-year-old girl in Canada to engage in sexually explicit conduct for him online, following an investigation led ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
Jose Darwin Flores, 33, of Arlington, Va., threatened the driver and struck the driver at least twice.
United Technologies, Pratt & Whitney Canada and Hamilton Sundstrand Corporations also agree to pay more than $75 million to U.S. government after HSI-led investigation
Naveed Sheikh, 30, was charged in a four count superseding indictment alleging that from February 2004 to June 2008, Sheikh conspired to infringe copyrights. If convicted, Sheikh faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine for the conspiracy and for each of three counts of copyright infringement. Sheikh is detained. No court appearance has been scheduled.
Han Sa Yu, 43, a citizen of the Republic of Korea living in Fairfax, Va., is alleged to be the leader of the Korean Night Breeders, and Je Hyung Yoo, 29, a citizen of the Republic of Korea who is unlawfully present in the United States and living in Rockville, Md., are each charged with conspiracy to commit extortion, attempted extortion and four counts of extortion.
Ahmed Alabadi pleaded guilty Thursday to wire fraud in connection with a $2 million investment fraud scheme. The plea comes after a joint investigation by the FBI, ICE's HSI and the Internal Revenue Service.
Vania Maria Plasse, a Brazilian woman wanted in her native country as a suspect in a child trafficking investigation, was deported and turned over to Brazilian federal police Wednesday by agents with ICE's Enforcement Removal Operations (ERO) Phoenix.
Marcos Mejia-Rosales was repatriated to Honduras aboard a removal flight chartered by ICE's Air Operations Unit. Mejia-Rosales was discovered in the King County Jail in November 2010 by Seattle ERO officers assigned to the Criminal Alien Program.
Carl George, 50, of New Castle, Pa., was also sentenced by United States District Judge Terrence F. McVerry to six years of supervised release following the prison term. According to court documents, George possessed videos and still images in computer graphics files involving the use of minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct.
A previously deported aggravated felon from Mexico, Leonel Lopez-Limon, was indicted by a federal grand jury Thursday for illegally re-entering the United States. These charges resulted from an investigation conducted by ICE's Enforcement Removal Operations (ERO). Lopez-Limon had been convicted of committing a drug-related aggravated felony...
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