News Releases and Statements

U.S. ICE on Tuesday began using a federal information sharing capability as part of the Secure Communities program in Calhoun, Chesterfield and Sumter 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...

Quentin Glenn Hodge, 29, of Jacksonville, was sentenced Monday to 76 months in federal prison for knowingly accessing child pornography on the Internet.

"Drug traffickers suffered yet another setback today. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) special agents and Puerto Rico Police Department (PRPD) officers stopped ""The Islander,"" a ferry boat carrying vehicles from neighboring island Vieques, for a routine inspection."

Five special agents from U.S. ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) are among 113 federal, state and local law enforcement officials who have been recognized for exceptional service as part of the 2011 Law Enforcement Public Service Awards given by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts.

Five decorative, hand-carved human skulls were turned over to Indonesian authorities Monday during a ceremony at the Consulate General of the Republic of Indonesia in New York, following an investigation by ICE's HSI.

Jeffrey Trantham, 24 admitted that between August and September 2009, he repeatedly sexually abused a child under the age of eight to produce pornography. He possessed over 600 images and videos of child pornography, including sadistic and violent conduct.

John Belloli pleaded guilty last November to production and possession of child pornography and was sentenced today by United States District Judge Stephen J. Murphy, III.

Everett Police Lieutenant Demetri O'Malley and Officer Jeffrey Gilmore were recognized by U.S. ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) for launching an investigation in July 2010 that helped end a nationwide search for a three-year-old girl who was discovered living in Everett after being abducted in Texas last year.

Seeking to enhance public awareness about the prevalence of child sexual abuse, federal and state officials held a press conference today to announce Maryland's accomplishments in combating child exploitation, and a new public website, Project Safe Childhood, launched earlier this month by the U.S. Department of Justice...

Jeffery Lew McCadden, 52, of Lakeside, Ore., pleaded guilty to five counts of distributing child pornography, two counts of receiving child pornography, and one count possession of child pornography. He was also ordered to serve a lifetime term of supervised release upon completion of his prison term.

A Guatemalan citizen wanted for murder in his native country was removed from the United States Friday morning by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO).

A three-time convicted drug trafficker was sentenced Friday to serve a lifetime prison term, following an investigation led by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).

Special agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) on Tuesday arrested an Austin-area businessman and four other individuals in connection with an H-2B visa fraud scam.

A husband and wife from Brooklyn, N.Y., were sentenced Thursday to federal prison on charges of sex trafficking a minor, following an investigation by U.S. ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). Domingo Salazar and Norma Mendez used physical violence and intimidation to force a 17-year-old woman to work as a prostitute around New York City.

Two Los Angeles-area men will appear in state court here Friday to answer to charges stemming from a probe by U.S. ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Anaheim Police Department that they illegally imported $2 million in counterfeit collectable Disney pins from China and sought to sell them over the Internet.

Donald J. Jones, III, 46, of Pemberton, New Jersey, was named in a six-count indictment announced by U.S. Attorney Peter F. Neronha. Jones was arrested in Providence last month as he exited a bus from New York after traveling from his home in New Jersey to Rhode Island in an alleged scheme to have sex with a minor.

Today, U.S. ICE and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) returned a collection of cultural artifacts illegally imported into the United States from Peru. The artifacts were discovered as part of three separate investigations by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in New York and Denver.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations officers on May 11 deported an illegal alien wanted in connection to a murder in Chihuahua City, Mexico.

A Cliffside Park, N.J., man pleaded guilty on Thursday in U.S. District Court to conspiring to fraudulently provide a U.S. Social Security card, a California driver's license and counterfeit Korean passport. He was arrested in a coordinated law enforcement takedown of 53 individuals in connection with a widespread, sophisticated identify theft...

Dave Dean, 43, of Peoria, Ariz., was sentenced today to 15 years in prison for engaging in a child exploitation enterprise.

U.S. ICE today published an expanded list of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) degree programs that qualify eligible graduates on student visas for an Optional Practical Training (OPT) extension - an important step forward in the Obama administration's continued commitment to fixing our broken immigration system.

A federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment on Wednesday charging Oscar M. Escobar, 36, of Rocksprings, Texas with conspiracy to commit and attempted bulk-cash smuggling in a case is being investigated by Department of Public Safety (DPS), U.S. ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Brown County District Attorney's Office.

Jose Orlando Garcia Duran, 33, a native of the Dominican Republic, was sentenced Wednesday to 286 months in federal prison for his role in smuggling cocaine and heroin through the Port of Savannah. The case was the result of a joint investigation conducted by U.S. ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), U.S. Customs and Border Protection...

Derek S. Holley, 34, of Julian, W. Va., pleaded guilty Thursday to possession of child pornography, following an investigation by U.S. ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). Holley admitted in his plea agreement that in November 2008, he possessed numerous images of child pornography on three computer hard drives located in his parents...

A federal grand jury indicted a man and a woman on Thursday with conspiracy to possess machine guns, possessing machine guns, and smuggling goods from the United States in connection to a undercover buy conducted in April 2011.