By Press release submission | Jan 27, 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. In fiscal year 2022, which ran from October 1, 2021, to September 30, 2022, CBP officers in Louisville intercept more than $260 million worth of various counterfeit goods, over 21,000 pounds of illicit drugs and stopped over 10,500 prohibited plants and animal products from entering the U.S.
By Press release submission | Jan 27, 2023
Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents assigned to the Laredo West Station apprehended a wanted criminal and a gang member in Laredo, Texas.
By Press release submission | Jan 27, 2023
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Office of Field Operations (OFO) officers assigned to the Eagle Pass International Bridge seized cocaine that totaled over $109,000 in street value.
By Press release submission | Jan 27, 2023
U.S. Customs and Border Protection is reminding the traveling public to be mindful that certain agricultural items such as raw eggs and poultry from Mexico are prohibited from entry into the United States, and failure to declare these items may result in monetary penalties.
By Press release submission | Jan 27, 2023
U.S. Border Patrol agents assigned to Del Rio Sector arrested a convicted sex offender, shortly after he illegally entered the United States, Jan. 18.
By Press release submission | Jan 27, 2023
Laredo Sector Border Patrol awarded the Youth of the Month honorees for January during a ceremony at Nixon High School.
By Press release submission | Jan 27, 2023
Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents assigned to Laredo South station in collaboration with other law enforcement agencies closed a stash house in Laredo, Texas.
By Press release submission | Jan 27, 2023
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Office of Field Operations (OFO) officers assigned to the Eagle Pass International Bridge seized fentanyl that totaled over $170,000 in street value.
By Press release submission | Jan 27, 2023
Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents assigned to the Laredo South Station halted a human smuggling attempt in Laredo, Texas.
By Press release submission | Jan 27, 2023
This week U.S. Border Patrol agents and their furry, four-legged canine partners began a journey and mission to help improve the mental health of the Border Patrol workforce nationwide.
By Press release submission | Jan 27, 2023
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Air and Marine Operations (AMO) worked with their federal and international partners to seize nearly 37,887 pounds of cocaine and 1,518 pounds of marijuana in international waters between November 1 and December 31, 2022, denying criminal organizations an estimated $77.3 million in proceeds.
By Press release submission | Jan 27, 2023
U.S. Customs and Border Protection released operational statistics today for December 2022, which can be viewed online here.
By Press release submission | Jan 27, 2023
A federal judge sentenced an El Paso man to 160 months in prison Jan. 23 for receiving and distributing a visual depiction involving the sexual exploitation of a minor.
By Press release submission | Jan 27, 2023
Officers with Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Denver removed Gerber Membreno-Portillo, 22, a noncitizen fugitive wanted in El Salvador, from the United States Jan. 13.
By Press release submission | Jan 27, 2023
Officers with the Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Philadelphia field office removed an unlawfully present foreign fugitive wanted in Mexico for homicide Jan. 11.
By Press release submission | Jan 27, 2023
Officers with the Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) San Antonio field office removed an unlawfully present noncitizen foreign fugitive Jan. 17. The noncitizen was wanted in Mexico for attempted femicide and rape.
By Press release submission | Jan 27, 2023
Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Richmond led an investigation that resulted in a 55-month prison sentence for a Houston resident found guilty of drug trafficking and money laundering offenses.
By Press release submission | Jan 27, 2023
A federal judge in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas sentenced two La Quarenta gang members to prison Jan. 19. The pair ran a large-scale drug trafficking operation in Southeast Texas.
By Press release submission | Jan 27, 2023
Following an investigation by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) New Orleans, an Iowa, Louisiana man was sentenced to more than 21 years of imprisonment for child exploitation Jan. 13.
By Press release submission | Jan 27, 2023
Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) El Paso officers removed an undocumented citizen of Mexico to his home country Jan. 18, where he was wanted in connection with the 2014 abduction of 43 Mexican college students.
