News and reports from the Department of Homeland Security.

A Hampton, Va., man was cited by the police after Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers at Richmond International Airport caught him with a handgun in his carry-on bag this morning, Wednesday, Dec. 28.

You can put your natural investigative abilities to good use by attending the Advanced Mishap Analysis Reporting Course (AMARC) now open for enrollment and beginning in February.

Ninety years ago, on Sunday, New Year’s Day 1933, Lt. Cmdr. Carl Christian von Paulsen started out on what would become one of early Coast Guard aviation’s best-known search and rescue cases.

MyCG wishes the Coast Guard workforce and community a happy and safe new year and all the best for 2023.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at the Rainbow Bridge Port of Entry arrested a 35-year-old male Citizen of Canada who had an outstanding warrant out of Massachusetts.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers seized 877 pounds (398 kilos) of cocaine concealed on board the San Juan -Santo Domingo Ferry arriving at the Pan American Dock. The estimated value of the seized cocaine is $9.1 million.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at eight South Texas ports of entry seized a significant amount of narcotics, unreported currency, weapons and uncovered numerous immigration violations during Fiscal Year 2022, most notably a 177 percent increase in inadmissibles encountered and a 19 percent increase in cocaine seized. Fiscal Year 2022 began October 1, 2021 and ended Sept. 30, 2022.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Office of Field Operations (OFO) officers assigned to the World Trade Bridge seized methamphetamine that totaled over $900,000 in street value.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) began detaining merchandise produced or manufactured by Jingde Trading Ltd., Rixin Foods. Ltd., and Zhejiang Sunrise Garment Group Co. Ltd. at all U.S. ports of entry on Dec. 5, 2022.

Officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Boston arrested Jaconias Rosa Pereira, a Brazilian criminal fugitive wanted for murder in Brazil, Wednesday, Dec. 28.

Acting Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Kansas City Joshua Armstrong and United States Attorney Steven Russell announced that Tammie J. Young, 53, of Kearney, Nebraska, was sentenced Tuesday in federal court in Lincoln.

A St. Louis, Missouri, man pleaded guilty in federal court today to his role in a conspiracy to distribute kilogram-quantities of heroin in the Springfield, Missouri, area following a joint Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), law enforcement partners probe.

Last month, a local area man was sentenced to one year of probation and ordered to pay restitution, to include $8,028 in unpaid taxes and tariffs to customs authorities for his involvement in importing counterfeit N95 masks from Asia following an investigation by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) removed an unlawfully present Peruvian citizen wanted in his home country for crimes against public peace.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) released today the agency’s annual report showcasing how the agency has responded to increasingly complex transnational security threats in fiscal year (FY) 2022.