By Press release submission | Dec 13, 2022
On December 2, U.S. Border Patrol was made aware of a group of people in danger in the forests of Churubusco, New York. Following a vehicle stop of a suspected human smuggler near the International Border between the United States and Canada, Border Patrol Agents learned - through roadside interviews - that the group in question, which included a family and their three children (aged between one and eight years old) were attempting to navigate a heavily wooded area in near-freezing temperatures.
By Press release submission | Dec 13, 2022
Bellingham-based Air and Marine Operations ground teams and H125 aircrews took part in multiple high-risk search warrant operations involving federal, state, and local partners that led to the arrests of six members of a drug distribution conspiracy operating in Skagit and Whatcom counties on Nov. 30.
By Press release submission | Dec 13, 2022
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Field Operations officers at the Progreso International Bridge arrested two men returning from Mexico this weekend after learning they had outstanding felony warrants for Aggravated Sexual Assault.
By Press release submission | Dec 13, 2022
U.S. Border Patrol agents and Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office seized 156lbs of marijuana.
By Press release submission | Dec 13, 2022
Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended a person with an active warrant in Laredo, Texas.
By Press release submission | Dec 13, 2022
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has implemented Split Processing at the Fort Erie/Peace Bridge Border Crossing for NEXUS/Free and Secure Trade (FAST) Trusted Traveler Programs (TTP) Enrollment Center. A similar split interview process was previously implemented successfully at the Alexandria Bay, N.Y. Port of Entry and Lansdowne Border Crossing and these initiatives represent key strategies to address ongoing demand.
By Press release submission | Dec 13, 2022
Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents worked with the Albuquerque Police Department’s (APD) VICE Unit to rescue 69 people who were held against their will and arrested a man for human smuggling on Nov. 29. APD’s detectives and HSI special agents are members of the New Mexico Human Trafficking Task Force.
By Press release submission | Dec 13, 2022
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Enforcement and Removal Operations, commonly called ICE and ERO, respectively, arrested an Ecuadorian fugitive in Spring Valley, New York on Dec. 1; the man is wanted for rape in Ecuador.
By Press release submission | Dec 13, 2022
A Mexican national wanted in his home country for rape was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Enforcement and Removal Operations officers, commonly called ICE and ERO, respectively, in Rowland Heights, California Dec. 6.
By Press release submission | Dec 13, 2022
A jury convicted a West Plains man Dec. 6 of sexual exploitation of a 13-month-old child and distributing child pornography following a joint investigation between Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the Southwest Missouri Cyber Crimes Task Force and the West Plains, Mo., Police Department.
By Press release submission | Dec 13, 2022
A Kansas man was sentenced to more than 28 years in prison for conspiracy to commit sexual exploitation of a child (production of child pornography) following a joint investigation between Homeland Security Investigations, commonly called HSI, and the Kansas Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force.
By Press release submission | Dec 13, 2022
Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) welcomed seven new forensic analysts into its ranks during the Human Exploitation Rescue Operation Child-Rescue Corps (HERO Corps) graduation ceremony Dec. 8.
By Press release submission | Dec 13, 2022
A judge sentenced Paul John McNicol, 30, of LeClaire, Iowa to 216 months in prison for receiving child pornography on Nov. 30 following a Homeland Security Investigations, or HSI, probe.
By Press release submission | Dec 13, 2022
Acting Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security Investigations, or HSI, Kansas City Joshua Armstrong and Acting United States Attorney Steven Russell announced that Dallas Faamausili, 36, of Renton, Washington, was sentenced to more than five years in prison Thursday in federal court in Lincoln, Nebraska.
By Press release submission | Dec 13, 2022
A South Texas stash house operator was sentenced to nearly three years in federal prison Dec. 8 for his role in smuggling unlawfully present noncitizens in the back of a fruit truck following an investigation by Homeland Security Investigations Corpus Christi and U.S. Border Patrol.
By Press release submission | Dec 13, 2022
Three pastors from Jesus Survives Ministries, a now-defunct Houston-area church, have pleaded guilty for their roles in a conspiracy to commit COVID-19 relief and car loan fraud following an investigation conducted by Homeland Security Investigations Houston, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, the Small Business Administration and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Inspector General.
By Press release submission | Dec 13, 2022
A federal grand jury in Wichita returned an indictment charging a Kansas man with one count of sexual exploitation of a child/production of child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography following a Homeland Security Investigations probe.
By Press release submission | Dec 13, 2022
Deportation officers with United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Newark field office apprehended three unlawfully present noncitizens convicted of sex offenses during a nationwide enforcement action from Oct. 22 through Nov. 4. ERO’s law enforcement action resulted in a total of 138 arrests nationally, including some people who were previously ordered removed from the U.S. but failed to depart.
By Press release submission | Dec 13, 2022
Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) field offices in Dallas and Tampa were recognized during the 2022 Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) Director’s Law Enforcement Awards Ceremony, Dec. 1. FinCEN, a bureau of the U.S. Department of Treasury, safeguards the financial system from illicit use, combats money laundering and related crimes including terrorism, and promotes national security through the strategic use of financial authorities and the collection, analysis, and dissemination of financial intelligence.
By Press release submission | Dec 13, 2022
The Department of Justice has announced the unsealing of an 11-count indictment charging 12 individuals in a long-running, multifaceted conspiracy to monopolize the transmigrante forwarding industry in the Los Indios border region near Harlingen and Brownsville following an investigation conducted by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).