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October 21, 2011
|Human Smuggling/Trafficking
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) continues its public outreach campaign to generate awareness to combat human trafficking nationwide as part of the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Blue Campaign launched in July 2010.
October 21, 2011
|Enforcement and Removal
Domingo Torres-Rodriguez, a Dominican national with a lengthy criminal record who was previously deported from the United States three times, was sentenced Friday to 70 months in federal prison for illegal re-entry. This case was investigated by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
October 21, 2011
|Intellectual Property Rights and Commercial Fraud

A three-month operation conducted by 43 countries has resulted in the seizure of more than one million counterfeit electrical goods. This operation was spearheaded in the United States by the National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center (IPR Center), in coordination with the World Customs Organization (WCO).

October 21, 2011
|Financial Crimes
Gilberto Baez-Garcia of El Paso, Texas was sentenced Oct. 20 to 24 months in prison for his role in a scheme to defraud the Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank) of more than $3.6 million. This sentencing followed an investigation ICE's HSI in El Paso, and the Ex-Im Bank Office of Inspector General.
October 20, 2011
|Operational
ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) announced the dedication of an expanded new state-of-the-art forensic laboratory in Boston Friday.
October 20, 2011
|Child Exploitation
Gary Waffle was also ordered serve 20 years on supervised release following the completion of his sentence.
October 20, 2011
|Labor Exploitation
J & J Industrial Supply pleaded guilty in federal court Tuesday to hiring more than 10 illegal aliens in a 12-month period. The guilty plea resulted from an investigation conducted by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) with assistance from the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department and the St. Charles County Sheriff's Department.
October 20, 2011
|Child Exploitation
A federal grand jury returned indictments on Wednesday charging Amber Schmidt and Gary Lee Jackson of Garland, Texas with various felony child pornography offenses. The indictments allege that they used cell phones and text messaging to send images of child pornography to each other.
October 20, 2011
|Child Exploitation
John Shutt of Bowie, Md., was sentenced to 90 months in federal prison for possessing and distributing child pornography. The sentence is the result of an investigation conducted by U.S. ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). Shutt admitted that he had downloaded and possessed child pornography for more than 15 years and also traded images.
October 20, 2011
|Document and Benefit Fraud
Two individuals involved in a large-scale sophisticated identity theft scheme appeared in court on Thursday. A Palisades Park, N.J., woman admitted her role in the scheme, and a former New York resident charged in the same scheme appeared in court for the first time. This case was investigated by U.S. ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
October 19, 2011
|Financial Crimes
In August 2009, ICE established the National BCSC in Williston, Vt. The BCSC operates around the clock to help ICE agents and their law enforcement partners identify, investigate and disrupt criminal organizations profiting from financial crime.
October 19, 2011
|Narcotics
Nine central California men have been charged in an eight-count federal indictment handed down Thursday for their role in a large-scale illegal pot growing operation in the Sequoia National Forest. This information was uncovered during a multi-agency probe involving U.S. ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
October 19, 2011
|Human Smuggling/Trafficking
A Micronesian couple who now reside in the Seattle-area were sentenced Wednesday for their role in a forced labor scheme uncovered in an investigation by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the Seattle Police Department's High Risk Victims Unit and the Longview Police Department.
October 19, 2011
|Counter Proliferation Investigation Unit
Yi-Lan Chen, a Taiwanese national convicted of conspiring to export missile components to Iran in violation of the International Emergency Powers Act (IEPA), was deported to Taiwan on Tuesday by U.S. ICE's Enforcement Removal Operations (ERO) in Miami.
October 18, 2011
|Child Exploitation
Robert Joseph Olson pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court Tuesday to distributing child pornography in a case investigated by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).In addition, Olson admitted that he possessed about 1,400 similar images, some of which portrayed sadistic or masochistic conduct or other depictions of violence against children.
October 17, 2011
|Narcotics
A New York man who was convicted of possessing and distributing at least five kilograms of cocaine and at least 50 grams of cocaine base was sentenced to 35 years in prison and a $5,000 fine. The sentence is the result of an extensive investigation by multiple law enforcement agencies, including ICE Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
October 17, 2011
|Enforcement and Removal

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director John Morton today announced the agency's fiscal year 2011 year-end removal numbers, highlighting trends that underscore the administration's focus on removing individuals from the country that fall into priority areas for enforcement.

October 17, 2011
|Child Exploitation
A local man was sentenced on Tuesday to 17 ½ years in prison for receiving child pornography. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) led the investigation.
October 17, 2011
|Narcotics

A federal judge sentenced Clement Agbapu of Lagos, Nigeria on Tuesday to 30 months in prison on drug smuggling charges. Agbapu attempted to smuggle approximately 1.2 kilograms of heroin he had swallowed into the United States.

October 17, 2011
|Intellectual Property Rights and Commercial Fraud
On Oct. 14, 18,640 pieces of counterfeit merchandise were seized from within the D.C. Farmer's Market on the corner of Fifth Street Northeast and Neal Place Northeast by special agents with U.S. ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and officers with the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department (MPD). 11 people were arrested.
October 17, 2011
|Operational
Andre George Mehilove pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court Monday to manufacturing counterfeit postage-meter stamps in a case investigated by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in cooperation with the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS). Mehilove admitted that he created counterfeit postage-meter stamps using his personal computer...
October 17, 2011
|Child Exploitation
Peter Joshua Johns, 20, is charged with two counts of receiving child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography.
October 17, 2011
|Child Exploitation
Timothy Murphy of Nashville, Tennessee, was sentenced on Oct. 13 to serve 72 months in prison for one count of receipt of child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography. This sentence was the result of an investigation by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). Murphy's computer contained over 15,000 images of child porn.
October 16, 2011
|Narcotics
Officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Shadow Wolves patrol unit seized nearly two tons of marijuana on the Tohono O'odham Nation Friday.
October 14, 2011
|Child Exploitation
Angel Landin, 46, a former Selma, Calif., police officer was sentenced Friday to six years and eight months in prison on charges of receiving child pornography stemming from an investigation by ICE's HSI.
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