By Press release submission | Feb 1, 2023
During a 12-month timeframe, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers in Louisville have seized thousands and thousands of packages that contain counterfeit items, agricultural pests, or narcotics shipped from criminals in the U.S. and overseas
By Press release submission | Feb 1, 2023
An unlawfully present Mexican national pleaded guilty Jan. 30 to multiple crimes related to her role in operating a sex trafficking ring out of a Houston-area cantina.
By Press release submission | Feb 1, 2023
Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Houston Field Office, with assistance from ERO Mexico and the Security Alliance for Fugitive Enforcement (SAFE) Task Force in Mexico, removed a foreign fugitive from the U.S. Jan. 30 who is wanted for homicide in his home country of Mexico.
By Press release submission | Feb 1, 2023
A Jamaican citizen and felon, apprehended by Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Baltimore, received an 84-month prison sentence followed by five years of supervised release for drug charges and illegal reentry into the United States.
By Press release submission | Feb 1, 2023
Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Houston, with assistance from ERO Tegucigalpa and the Security Alliance for Fugitive Enforcement (SAFE) Task Force in Honduras, removed a foreign fugitive from the U.S. Jan. 27 who is wanted in Honduras for murder.
By Press release submission | Feb 1, 2023
Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents are seeking additional victims whom a local woman, charged federally with impersonating a federal employee, may have defrauded.
By Press release submission | Feb 1, 2023
An Ohio man was arraigned Jan. 26 on criminal charges related to his alleged false statements to U.S. immigration and law enforcement officials about his military service and involvement in a politically and ethnically-motivated attack on civilians in Croatia during the civil war in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s, following a Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Detroit, FBI joint probe.
By Press release submission | Feb 1, 2023
An investigation conducted by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Washington, D.C. field office resulted in convictions of four men for their involvement in an online child exploitation network.
By Press release submission | Feb 1, 2023
A Southeast Texas man was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison Jan. 26 for attempting to sell large quantities of cocaine and methamphetamines to undercover law enforcement officials.
By Press release submission | Feb 1, 2023
A Detroit man who photographed his sexual assaults of a young child and forced an adult to engage in prostitution was sentenced to life in prison, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Detroit Special Agent in Charge Angie Salazar announced Tuesday.
By Press release submission | Feb 1, 2023
Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents arrested a local woman Jan. 23 on criminal charges related to her alleged wire fraud and impersonation of a federal employee.
By Press release submission | Feb 1, 2023
Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Polite, Jr. recognized five special agents and one group supervisor from Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) with the Assistant Attorney General’s Award for Exceptional Service Jan. 19 during the 2022 U.S. Department of Justice Criminal Division Assistant Attorney General Awards in Washington, D.C.
By Press release submission | Feb 1, 2023
Officers with Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Boston arrested a noncitizen fugitive with an active arrest warrant in Honduras for human trafficking charges in Manchester, New Hampshire, on Jan. 17.
By Press release submission | Feb 1, 2023
Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) New Orleans removed 31-year-old Jose Refugio Mendez Gomez, an unlawfully present Mexican national wanted for homicide in his home country of Mexico.
By Press release submission | Feb 1, 2023
On Jan. 19, officers with the Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Harlingen fugitive operations team arrested Carlos Mauricio Zavala, a citizen of El Salvador, in Edinburg.
By Press release submission | Feb 1, 2023
As part of its ongoing outreach initiative for Human Trafficking Awareness Month, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) New Orleans participated in the Greater New Orleans Human Trafficking Task Force law enforcement symposium Jan. 13.
By Press release submission | Feb 1, 2023
A Joplin man pleaded guilty in federal court Jan. 24 to receiving and distributing child pornography following a Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and law enforcement partner investigation.
By Press release submission | Feb 1, 2023
Acting Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Kansas City Taekuk Cho and United States Attorney Steven Russell announced that United States District Court Judge John M. Gerrard sentenced Aaron Joseph Kearney, 50, of Lincoln, to 13 years imprisonment for possession of child pornography on Jan. 20
By Press release submission | Feb 1, 2023
Acting Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Kansas City Taekuk Cho and United States Attorney Steven Russell announced that a jury found Dalonte Foard, 25, of Omaha, Nebraska, guilty Jan. 24 after a four-day trial in federal court for conspiracy to commit sex trafficking following an HSI and law enforcement partner investigation.
By Press release submission | Feb 1, 2023
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has received enough petitions to reach the cap for the additional 18,216 H-2B visas made available for returning workers for the first half of fiscal year (FY) 2023 with start dates on or before March 31, 2023, under the recently announced H-2B supplemental cap temporary final rule.
