https://www.ice.gov/ ICE Headline News Feed by State en Copyright 2020 Fri, 26 Jul 2024 16:16:37 -0400 Mon, 29 Apr 2024 13:37:18 -0400 https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ero-new-orleans-investigation-leads-convicted-child-sexual-abusers-indictment On April 23, a federal grand jury returned a four-count indictment charging former Mexican citizen Felix Aguilar-Matias with naturalization and passport fraud. https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ero-new-orleans-investigation-leads-convicted-child-sexual-abusers-indictment Mon, 29 Apr 2024 13:37:18 -0400 ICE Headline News Feed by State - Mississippi https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/hsi-jackson-holds-first-state-organized-retail-crime-alliance-meeting The four-state Organized Retail Crime Alliance connects federal, state and local law enforcement and prosecutors, as well as financial and retail industry partners, from all four states. The ORCA initiative is part of a larger nationwide strategic partnership for HSI to identify, investigate and prosecute organized retail crime. https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/hsi-jackson-holds-first-state-organized-retail-crime-alliance-meeting Wed, 15 Nov 2023 10:25:34 -0500 ICE Headline News Feed by State - Mississippi https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ero-new-orleans-arrests-7-during-weeklong-operation The efforts targeted noncitizens residing in Mississippi who have public safety arrests or convictions and those with a final order of removal and no pending appeals. https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ero-new-orleans-arrests-7-during-weeklong-operation Fri, 04 Aug 2023 10:39:30 -0400 ICE Headline News Feed by State - Mississippi https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/2-plead-guilty-following-hsi-new-orleans-fraud-investigation According to court documents, Edafe Onoetiyi, 34, of Nigeria, but living in Dallas, Texas; and Susan Johns, 54, of Bothwell, Washington, pled guilty in U.S. District Court in Natchez, Mississippi. https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/2-plead-guilty-following-hsi-new-orleans-fraud-investigation Thu, 09 Jun 2022 08:48:10 -0400 ICE Headline News Feed by State - Mississippi https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-hsi-new-orleans-recognizes-multi-state-narcotics-interdiction-efforts This initiative provides real-time, tactical intelligence and information to more than 280 federal, state, and local law enforcement partners engaged in drug law enforcement and highway interdiction with the states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, and Tennessee. https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-hsi-new-orleans-recognizes-multi-state-narcotics-interdiction-efforts Wed, 16 Mar 2022 14:40:42 -0400 ICE Headline News Feed by State - Mississippi https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/33-individuals-arrested-mississippi-narcotics-investigation The arrests, conducted Friday and continuing over the weekend, were led by the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics, the Neshoba County Sheriff’s office, the Philadelphia Police Department, the Mississippi Attorney General’s Office, and the Drug Enforcement Administration following a multi-year investigation in collaboration with Homeland Security Investigations New Orleans. , , , , , https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/33-individuals-arrested-mississippi-narcotics-investigation Mon, 17 May 2021 10:17:53 -0400 ICE Headline News Feed by State - Mississippi https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/mississippi-man-sentenced-possessing-70000-child-pornography-images-following-ice-hsi Taryn Goin Naidoo, 41, of Diamondhead, Miss., received three sentences totaling 170 months, set to run concurrently, followed by 15 years of supervised release. https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/mississippi-man-sentenced-possessing-70000-child-pornography-images-following-ice-hsi Mon, 10 Aug 2020 14:00:45 -0400 ICE Headline News Feed by State - Mississippi https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/managers-supervisors-human-resource-personnel-indicted-crimes-stemming-largest-single This was the largest single-state worksite enforcement operation in our nation’s history, resulting in the detention of 680 illegal aliens and the prosecution of 119 illegal aliens for stealing the identities of American citizens, falsifying immigration documents, fraudulently claiming to be U.S. citizens, and illegal re-entering the country after being deported, among other federal crimes. https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/managers-supervisors-human-resource-personnel-indicted-crimes-stemming-largest-single Thu, 06 Aug 2020 13:45:30 -0400 ICE Headline News Feed by State - Mississippi https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/2-sentenced-distributing-meth-mississippi-following-ice-hsi-investigation Justin Williams, 30, of Hattiesburg, was sentenced June 18, 2020, to 84 months in federal prison by Senior U.S. District Judge Keith Starrett, for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine. Following his prison term, Williams must serve five years of supervised release. https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/2-sentenced-distributing-meth-mississippi-following-ice-hsi-investigation Fri, 19 Jun 2020 11:00:30 -0400 ICE Headline News Feed by State - Mississippi https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-hsi-arrests-4-international-telemarketing-fraud-ring-targeting-senior-citizens HSI Jackson special agents arrested James Haynes, 65, Jarvis Haynes, 29, and Neman Zahid, 32, of Jackson, Miss., after an original indictment returned by a federal grand jury on March 19, 2019, charged the defendants with defrauding multiple victims as part of an international tech support and telemarketing fraud scheme. https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-hsi-arrests-4-international-telemarketing-fraud-ring-targeting-senior-citizens Wed, 27 May 2020 13:00:00 -0400 ICE Headline News Feed by State - Mississippi https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/georgia-man-sentenced-transporting-drugs-disguised-childrens-candy Cleveland James McKinney, 30, of Atlanta, was sentenced to 151 months in federal prison Tuesday, followed by five years of supervised release, for illegally transporting 41.97 kilograms of 100% pure methamphetamine and 4.5 kilograms of heroin that had been smuggled into the United States from Mexico. https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/georgia-man-sentenced-transporting-drugs-disguised-childrens-candy Wed, 26 Feb 2020 10:45:00 -0500 ICE Headline News Feed by State - Mississippi https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/mississippi-man-sentenced-over-17-years-child-pornography-following-ice-hsi Daniel Haughton, 45, of Brandon, was sentenced on one count of possession and one count of transportation of child pornography before U.S. District Court Judge Tom Lee. https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/mississippi-man-sentenced-over-17-years-child-pornography-following-ice-hsi Thu, 06 Feb 2020 11:00:45 -0500 ICE Headline News Feed by State - Mississippi https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-executes-federal-search-warrants-multiple-mississippi-locations In addition to executing federal search warrants and seizing business records pertaining to the ongoing federal criminal investigation, deportation officers with ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) in partnership with HSI detained approximately 680 removable aliens who were unlawfully working at the plants. , , , , , , https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-executes-federal-search-warrants-multiple-mississippi-locations Wed, 07 Aug 2019 16:30:30 -0400 ICE Headline News Feed by State - Mississippi https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/11-indicted-multi-state-drug-trafficking-case-following-ice-hsi-investigation According to court documents, the indictments resulted from an extensive Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) investigation dubbed Operation Highlife. The Mississippi-based drug trafficking organization is charged with distributing more than 40 kilograms of methamphetamine, more than 3 kilograms of cocaine and over 100 pounds of marijuana illegally smuggled into the U.S. from Mexico across numerous states to include Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Texas, Tennessee and California. https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/11-indicted-multi-state-drug-trafficking-case-following-ice-hsi-investigation Fri, 01 Jun 2018 14:45:15 -0400 ICE Headline News Feed by State - Mississippi https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/nigerian-man-6-others-sentenced-prison-online-fraud-schemes Funso Hassan, 27, of Ibadan, Nigeria and Anthony Shane Jeffers, 44, of Maryville, Tennessee, were each sentenced to 10 years in prison. Ann Louise Franzen, 70, of Kiln, Mississippi; Gary Melvin Barnard, 64, of Palestine, Texas; Michele Gayle Fee, 55, of Stockton, California; Tanya Lynn Thomas, 52, of Turlock, California; and Shawn Ann White, 44, of Manteca, California, were each sentenced to five years in prison. https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/nigerian-man-6-others-sentenced-prison-online-fraud-schemes Thu, 08 Sep 2016 11:30:15 -0400 ICE Headline News Feed by State - Mississippi https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/nigerian-man-sentenced-20-years-role-50-million-fraud-scheme Teslim Olarewaju Kiriji, 30, a Nigerian citizen residing in Brownsburg, Indiana, received the maximum penalty for his conviction on the felony charge of conspiracy to commit money laundering. https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/nigerian-man-sentenced-20-years-role-50-million-fraud-scheme Mon, 24 Aug 2015 14:00:45 -0400 ICE Headline News Feed by State - Mississippi https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/second-man-guilty-sex-trafficking-4-year-old-producing-child-pornography According to court documents, Marco Laquin Rogers, 27, of Atlanta, traveled to a Jackson hotel in May 2012 to have sex with the child and videotape the act. https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/second-man-guilty-sex-trafficking-4-year-old-producing-child-pornography Fri, 13 Sep 2013 00:00:00 -0400 ICE Headline News Feed by State - Mississippi https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ocean-springs-man-pleads-guilty-possession-child-pornography This case was investigated by HSI, with assistance provided by the Mississippi Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, and was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Glenda Haynes, Southern District of Mississippi. https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ocean-springs-man-pleads-guilty-possession-child-pornography Tue, 22 May 2012 00:00:00 -0400 ICE Headline News Feed by State - Mississippi https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/texas-woman-pleads-guilty-transporting-illegal-aliens Sheren Nguyen, 47, of Houston, Texas, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to transporting illegal aliens through Mississippi for profit following an ICE HSI and PCSO investigation. https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/texas-woman-pleads-guilty-transporting-illegal-aliens Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0400 ICE Headline News Feed by State - Mississippi https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/convicted-child-predator-el-salvador-arrested-ice-deportation Tomas Landaverde, 43, was arrested by ICE through the Criminal Alien Program, which screens and identifies criminal aliens for removal from the United States based on their criminal convictions. https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/convicted-child-predator-el-salvador-arrested-ice-deportation Fri, 02 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0400 ICE Headline News Feed by State - Mississippi https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/mexican-predator-arrested-ice-1 Marcos Hernandez-Duran, 22, was arrested Wednesday by DRO officers assigned to Criminal Alien Operations, which involves the screening and identification of criminal aliens. https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/mexican-predator-arrested-ice-1 Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 ICE Headline News Feed by State - Mississippi https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/mexican-predator-arrested-ice Juan Vera-Serna, 34, was identified by DRO officers on May 7, 2009, during screening at the Horn Lake Police Department following his arrest for simple assault, simple assault with intent and felony child fondling. https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/mexican-predator-arrested-ice Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500 ICE Headline News Feed by State - Mississippi