News and reports from the Department of Homeland Security.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers in Denver apprehended two unlawfully present noncitizens convicted of sex offenses, including those with executable final orders of removal, during a nationwide enforcement effort from Oct. 22 through Nov. 4.

For more than two decades, Homeland Security Investigations Kansas City has protected the public from crimes of victimization and strategically targeted and investigated individuals and networks that engage in child exploitation. Recently, the United Nations officially declared Nov. 18 to be the World Day for the Prevention of and Healing from Child Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Violence.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Philadelphia Field Office removed an unlawfully present noncitizen foreign fugitive on Nov. 9.

Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Kansas City Katherine Greer and Acting United States Attorney Steven Russell announced that Jacob R. Price, 38, of Bellevue, was sentenced Nov. 17 in federal court by Chief United States District Judge Robert F. Rossiter Jr. to 168 months’ imprisonment for receipt of child pornography following a joint HSI, law enforcement partner investigation.

A Texas woman was sentenced to two years in federal prison for sending meth-laced papers disguised as mail to the Coastal Bend Detention Center following an investigation by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Corpus Christi and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, with assistance from the U.S. Marshals Service, the GEO Group, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, the Corpus Christi Police Department, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, the Bureau of Prisons and the FBI Miami Task Force.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Enforcement and Removal Operations Miami Field Office, with support from ERO Honduras and its Security Alliance for Fugitive Enforcement taskforce, removed a foreign fugitive wanted in Honduras for homicide.

Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Kansas City Katherine Greer and Acting United States Attorney Steven Russell announced that Robert Williams, 52, of Hastings, Nebraska, was sentenced today by United States District Court Judge John M. Gerrard to a term of 144 months’ imprisonment following his conviction for possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute.

Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Kansas City Katherine Greer and Acting United States Attorney Steven Russell announced that Sidney Marker, 28, of Seward, Nebraska, was sentenced in an Omaha federal court Nov. 14 for conspiracy to sex traffic minors following an HSI and law enforcement partner investigation.

Three individuals were arrested following a joint investigation by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) offices in Louisville, San Diego and San Francisco after a federal indictment was unsealed in the U.S. District Court in the Western District of Kentucky.

Last month, a federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment against a man for his alleged involvement in importation of fentanyl into the United States from Mexico and possession with intent to distribute fentanyl following an investigation by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).

An investigation led by the Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Washington, D.C. field office landed a Fairfax, Virginia man in federal prison for 16 years.

Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Houston is warning the public to beware of scammers spoofing legitimate law enforcement phone numbers and impersonating HSI special agents or other federal, state and local law enforcement personnel.

In late Oct. 2022, a man was sentenced to 42 months in federal prison for smuggling ammunition from the United States into Mexico following an investigation by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

As we move toward an increasing electronic environment, we now scan and upload many documents into electronic database systems.

On Nov. 10, 2022, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) posted a Federal Register Notice announcing the continuation of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) and certain related documents for beneficiaries under the TPS designations that remain subject to the court orders in the Ramos et al. v. Nielsen and Bhattarai et al. v. Nielsen et al. lawsuits.