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U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers working at the Bridge of the Americas border crossing in El Paso, Texas intercepted 26 pounds of methamphetamine and 10 pounds of fentanyl in a single failed smuggling attempt.
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Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents locate four lost individuals at Laredo Sector.
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Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents assigned to the Laredo South station working together with local law enforcement agencies closed on an apartment complex used as a stash house in Laredo, Texas.
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News Release: WASHINGTON -- FEMA announced that federal emergency aid has been made available to the state of Florida to supplement state, tribal and local response efforts to the emergency conditions in the area affected by Tropical Storm Nicole, beginning Nov. 7 and continuing.
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Release: WASHINGTON The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) hosted a ceremony today to recognize veterans within the TSA workforce ahead of the Veterans Day federal holiday on Nov. 11.
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement recently announced various law enforcement officials from around the U.S. worked to take down a multi-million dollar catalytic converter theft ring.
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News Release: HOUSTON - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Houston Field Office removed an unlawfully present foreign fugitive Wednesday who is wanted in his home country of Mexico for allegedly murdering his fiancée in 2015.
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News Release: FRANKFORT Ky, -- Since the end of the FEMA application period on Oct. 28, the agency has approved more than $3 million to survivors of Eastern Kentucky flooding. This is in addition to the $82.1 million already approved prior to the application deadline. FEMA is still here and help is still available.
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News Release: WASHINGTON - Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Director Jen Easterly issued the following statement today on the security and the resilience of the 2022 elections...
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On November 2, 2022 U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Jones Act Division of Enforcement (JADE) held local training to raise awareness of the 102-year-old federal statute, officially known as the Merchant Marine Act of 1920. U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) officers, along with CBP import specialists and other personnel, were in attendance to learn the complexities of the act which governs U.S. maritime cabotage.
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Rio Grande City Border Patrol Station (RGC) agents encountered two large groups near La Grulla and disrupted a marijuana smuggling event with the assistance of Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) troopers
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Office of Field Operations (OFO) at the Hidalgo International Bridge intercepted $344,000 worth of alleged fentanyl along with 2,873 Xanax pills.
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers are working 24 hours a day, seven days a week to keep Americans safe from dangerous drugs that threaten communities around the U.S. CBP officers in Louisville seized a total of 2,205 pounds of illicit drugs during the month of October.
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Houston Field Office removed an unlawfully present foreign fugitive Wednesday who is wanted in his home country of Mexico for allegedly murdering his fiancée in 2015.
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Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents on Oct. 4, rescued three Guatemalan undocumented noncitizens who were being held for ransom. Their suspected hostage takers were also arrested.
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George Mason University’s Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center (TraCCC) announced the winners of the 2022 Bring Down Counterfeiting Public Policy Hackathon, held Nov. 5 at the Homeland Security Investigations Innovation Lab in Arlington.
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Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security Investigation (HSI) Kansas City Katherine Greer and United States Attorney Steven Russell announced that Omaha residents Carney Turner, 42, and Julisha Biggs, 20, were sentenced Nov. 8, in federal court for a conspiracy to sex traffic minors, following an HSI and joint law enforcement partner investigation.
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Officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Salt Lake City Field Office removed a Mexican citizen wanted by law enforcement authorities in his home country on charges related to drug trafficking.
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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; three counts of distribution of child pornography; and one count of possession of child pornography, following an HSI joint law enforcement partner investigation.
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On Oct. 26, Warren Evan Jose, 38, was sentenced by United States District Judge Scott H. Rash to 440 months in prison for conspiracy to transport illegal aliens for profit with endangerment during which death resulted; two counts of assault on a federal officer with a dangerous weapon; and two counts of discharge of a firearm during a crime of violence.