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June 17, 2011
|Enforcement and Removal
A Serbian citizen wanted in Sweden for narcotics smuggling involving 184 pounds of amphetamine was turned over to the U.S. Marshals Service for extradition following his arrest June 10 by U.S. ICE's Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) in Phoenix.
June 17, 2011
|Transnational Gangs
The leader of the 'Krazy Locos' criminal street gang and five other gang associates were sentenced Thursday for their roles in a case involving two homicides, three non-fatal shootings, narcotics and firearms trafficking, and obstruction of justice.
June 17, 2011
|Intellectual Property Rights and Commercial Fraud
James Clayton Baxter, 28, infringed the copyrighted works of Adobe Systems Inc. by reproducing copies of their software for his financial gain. The Wichita Falls Police Department (WFPD) had previously dealt with Baxter selling infringing software in a 2004 investigation of him for credit card abuse.
June 16, 2011
|Child Exploitation
Ricardo Del Valle-Diaz, 33, of Caguas, Puerto Rico, is a school bus driver for special education students.
June 16, 2011
|Child Exploitation
A fourth grade Dual Language Teacher at John Adams Elementary School, Justin Coleman, 35, was arrested on April 6 on charges of receiving child pornography. According to the six-count indictment, Coleman allegedly created videos in which he caused two girls – who were unaware at the time – to engage in sexually explicit conduct.
June 16, 2011
|Document and Benefit Fraud
The last of 22 defendants in a fraudulent driver's license scheme was sentenced Thursday to 60 months in federal prison.
June 16, 2011
|Human Smuggling/Trafficking
A federal jury on Wednesday convicted three men on all counts charged arising from a conspiracy to harbor illegal aliens to engage in prostitution.
June 16, 2011
|Human Smuggling/Trafficking
A fugitive, who was captured after an international manhunt led by agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), was sentenced Wednesday to three years and one month in federal prison after pleading guilty to alien smuggling charges.
June 16, 2011
|Transnational Gangs
An MS-13 gang member pleaded guilty on Thursday to the execution-style murders of a 19-year-old woman and her 2-year-old son, and nine other gang member pleaded guilty to racketeering offenses.
June 15, 2011
|Child Exploitation
Brian Annoreno, 35, created a live streaming online video of himself sexually molesting an infant in 2005. He was sentenced to 40 years in prison on child exploitation charges, ending one of the most significant international child exploitation investigations in this area, ICE officials said.
June 15, 2011
|Human Smuggling/Trafficking
3 sentenced in Tucson hostage investigation
June 14, 2011
|Transnational Gangs
This is the latest effort in an ongoing national ICE initiative to target foreign-born gang members and gang associates.
June 14, 2011
|Child Exploitation
A local man was sentenced on Tuesday to more than 13 years in federal prison and 15 years supervised release for receiving child pornography.
June 14, 2011
|Human Smuggling/Trafficking
Six alleged members of an international alien smuggling scheme were charged in federal court Tuesday with smuggling hundreds of aliens from Brazil, India and elsewhere into the United States following an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
June 14, 2011
|Financial Crimes
Arnold P. Nerenberg, a Whittier, Calif., psychologist, was arrested Tuesday morning following his indictment for allegedly orchestrating a scheme to bill the federal government for close to $1 million in costs involving fabricated psychological conditions and related medical treatments investigators say never took place.
June 14, 2011
|Enforcement and Removal
With the expansion of the use of biometric information sharing to these three counties, ICE is using this capability in 32 South Carolina jurisdictions. Across the country, ICE is using this capability in 1,400 jurisdictions in 43 states and territories.
June 14, 2011
|Enforcement and Removal

ATLANTA - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Tuesday began using a federal information sharing capability as part of the Secure Communities program in Clark, Habersham, Jackson and Pickens counties to help federal immigration officials identify criminal aliens in state prisons and local jails by running their fingerprints against federal immigration databases when they are booked into the system.

June 14, 2011
|Child Exploitation
Scott Wilson was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison Tuesday in a child exploitation case investigated by U.S. ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Somersworth Police Department. Wilson was arrested last year when the Somersworth Police received information that he had lured a young boy from Maine he met online for sex.
June 14, 2011
|Intellectual Property Rights and Commercial Fraud
The National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center (IPR Center) has announced 'Operation Chain Reaction,' a new comprehensive initiative targeting counterfeit items entering the supply chains of the Department of Defense and other U.S. government agencies.
June 13, 2011
|Enforcement and Removal
With the expansion of the use of biometric information sharing to these five counties, ICE is using this capability in 30 Alabama jurisdictions. Across the country, ICE is using this capability in 1400 jurisdictions in 43 states and territories. Since ICE began using this enhanced information sharing capability in October 2008 through April 30, 2011, ICE has removed more than 77,000 criminal aliens including more than 28,000 level 1 offenders convicted of aggravated felonies like murder, rape and the sexual abuse of children.
June 13, 2011
|Narcotics
Oleksandr Skochyk, 34, and Yeveniy Suray, 28, both of Kiev, Ukraine, were indicted in April by a federal grand jury on seven counts related to the importation and distribution of anabolic steroids after an investigation by U.S. ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). Both men were extradited to the United States from Cyprus...
June 13, 2011
|Child Exploitation
Alexis Negron-Cruz, 36, of Caguas, Puerto Rico, was arrested on Saturday by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents for alleged distribution of child pornography and sexually enticing a minor.
June 13, 2011
|Human Smuggling/Trafficking
Bidemi Bello, 41, a former resident of Suwanee, Ga., and a citizen of Nigeria, was convicted on 8 counts by a federal jury late Friday night on charges of 2 counts of forced labor, 2 counts of trafficking for forced labor, 1 count of document servitude, 1 count of alien harboring, and 2 counts of making false statements in an application.
June 13, 2011
|Document and Benefit Fraud
A federal judge here Monday sentenced a Korea-born pastor who operated a now defunct Orange County religious university to one year in prison and ordered him to forfeit to the government the $4 million property housing the school following his conviction on visa fraud and money laundering charges.
June 13, 2011
|Child Exploitation
Darryl Owen Walizer, 43, of Las Vegas, was sentenced June 10 by U.S. District Judge Philip M. Pro to 444 months in prison and lifetime supervised release. Walizer was convicted of coercion and enticement of a minor and commission of a felony sex offense by an individual required to register as a sex offender.
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