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Recent News About U.S. Immigration And Customs Enforcement
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An investigation led by Homeland Security Investigations Charleston, commonly called HSI Charleston, resulted in a 25-year prison sentence followed by a lifetime of supervised release for an Elkview, West Virginia man.
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A federal judge sentenced a San Antonio man Thursday to 190 months in prison for conspiring to kidnap and transport an undocumented noncitizen.
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The National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center (IPR Center) announced a new partnership between Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Pharmaceutical Security Institute (PSI) to combat illicit pharmaceutical trade and protect patients from the health and safety threats posed by counterfeit medications, Dec. 19.
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Enforcement and Removal Operations Boston field office, commonly called ERO Boston, removed an unlawfully present foreign fugitive wanted in Portugal Dec.14. The man is wanted in Portugal for drug trafficking.
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Special agents from Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Baltimore Field Office seized 23 separate internet domains Friday for allegedly live streaming World Cup matches, an infringement of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) copyrights. Individuals visiting the sites will now see a message that the site has been seized by the federal government and be redirected to another site for additional information.
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Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), in partnership with the FBI and National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), issued a national public safety alert today highlighting an incremental rise in incidents of children and teens being coerced into sending explicit images online and extorted for money – a crime known as financial sextortion.
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Special agents from the Homeland Security Investigations Baltimore field office, commonly called HSI Baltimore, spearheaded a coordinated crime suppression operation in and around Baltimore to combat a recent rise in crime
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On Dec. 14, deportation officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Enforcement and Removal Operations New York field office, commonly called ERO New York, apprehended a Salvadoran national who is wanted for homicide and criminal participation in MS-13 in El Salvador.
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Enforcement and Removal Operations Dallas recently removed a former Salvadoran officer for human rights violations.
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An investigation conducted by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Baltimore, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service’s Washington Division, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Inspector General, and the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Inspector General led to a Hyattsville, Maryland man pleading guilty to his part in a scheme to fraudulently obtain at least $1.3 million in COVID-19 emergency relief benefits.
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Tobias Penner Peters pleaded guilty Feb. 2 to transporting undocumented noncitizens causing serious bodily injury.
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A Houston-area man was convicted Feb. 8 for his role in a scheme to fraudulently obtain and launder millions of dollars in forgivable Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans guaranteed by the Small Business Administration (SBA) under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act.
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A federal judge sentenced a Columbia couple Feb. 8, following a joint Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and U.S. Department of Agriculture investigation into a scheme to smuggle counterfeit Disney DVDs into the United States and sell them on eBay.
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Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) El Paso deportation officers removed a repeat immigration offender on Feb. 1 who is wanted in his home country for fraud.
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The National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center (IPR Center) announced the seizure of approximately 180,000 counterfeit sports-related items, worth an estimated $22.7 million during a joint press conference with the National Football League (NFL).
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Fugitive operations officers with Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Boston arrested Diogo De-Sales Gomes, a 34-year-old unlawfully present Brazilian citizen convicted and sentenced to prison in Brazil for drug trafficking, in Somerville on Feb. 3.
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Deportation officers from Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Atlanta arrested an Ecuadorian fugitive listed as one of the country’s 100 most wanted criminals.
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A Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) San Antonio investigation resulted in six people arrested on charges of smuggling, resulting in the death of eight.
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Deportation officers from Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Washington removed Gerson Geovanni Soto-Juarez, 26, a Salvadoran national wanted by Salvadoran authorities for aggravated homicide and illicit associations.
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in Phoenix is implementing a year-long effort to provide essential public safety measures in and around the area for Super Bowl LVII. As a qualifying National Special Security Event, U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas designated HSI Special Agent in Charge Scott Brown as the lead federal coordinator.