News from February 2023
By State Newswire | Feb 9, 2023
News Release: Today we are announcing a reward offer of up to $5 million for information leading to the arrest and/or conviction of Yulan Adonay Archaga Carías, also known as “Porky" or Alex Mendoza, for conspiring to participate in or attempting to participate in transnational organized crime. This announcement complements ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2023
News Release: An indictment was unsealed today in the District of Columbia charging two foreign nationals with international methamphetamine and precursor chemical trafficking conspiracies.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2023
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Paul LaRocco, 60, of Ocala, Florida, who was convicted of mail fraud, was sentenced to serve 60 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. LaRocco was also ordered to pay restitution totaling approximately $688,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2023
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that CYNTHIA BOWLEY, age 68, of Meraux, was sentenced on February 7, 2023 after pleading guilty to aiding and assisting in the filing of false tax returns, a violation of Title 26, United States Code, Section 7206(2).
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 9, 2023
The US Transportation Department published a four page proposed rule on Feb. 8, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 9, 2023
News Release: - Each year, the U.S. Census Bureau brings together cross-sector collaborators during The Opportunity Project (TOP) Summit to solve some of the world’s major data and technology challenges.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 9, 2023
News Release: The American people heard from President Biden on Tuesday evening for his State of the Union. Instead of addressing the many crises facing Americans, like inflation, unaffordable energy, his border crisis, and his weakness against China, President Biden doubled down on his wish list for more radical spending and a socialist agenda.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2023
BJA FY 23 Missing and Unidentified Human Remains (MUHR) Program grant opened on Feb. 9.
By Press release submission | Feb 9, 2023
Deportation officers from Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Atlanta arrested an Ecuadorian fugitive listed as one of the country’s 100 most wanted criminals.
By Press release submission | Feb 9, 2023
A Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) San Antonio investigation resulted in six people arrested on charges of smuggling, resulting in the death of eight.
By Press release submission | Feb 9, 2023
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.
By Press release submission | Feb 9, 2023
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.
By Press release submission | Feb 9, 2023
Special agents from Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Charleston teamed up with the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of West Virginia to conduct a day-long human trafficking training workshop Jan. 31 at the University of Charleston.
By Homeland Newswire Report | Feb 9, 2023
Congressmen Mike Gallagher (R-WI), chairman of the House Select Committee on China, and Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), also a member of the committee, said in a joint statement that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) balloon flying over the U.S. represents a serious threat that must not be ignored. The Defense Department confirmed on Thursday that it was monitoring the surveillance balloon, but would not shoot it down, and said this balloon is not the first to have been spotted in U.S. airspace. Some have expressed concern that the balloon could be spying on sensitive intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) sites in Montana.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 9, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $3 million grant to the Philadelphia Regional Port Authority, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for infrastructure upgrades needed to boost offloading capacity...
By Press release submission | Feb 9, 2023
A Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Norfolk investigation led to a guilty plea from a Midlothian, Virginia man Jan. 31 for conspiring to defraud and commit offenses against the United States, including human trafficking of individuals from Central America; benefiting from forced labor; money laundering; and harboring undocumented non-citizens.
By Press release submission | Feb 9, 2023
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Human Rights Violators and War Crimes Center (HRVWCC), the FBI’s International Human Rights Unit (IHRU) and the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Criminal Division’s Human Rights and Special Prosecutions Section (HRSP) joined national and international law enforcement partners and non-governmental organizations today in recognizing the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation (FGM).
By Press release submission | Feb 9, 2023
Officers with Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) San Antonio, with assistance from ERO Honduras and the Security Alliance for Fugitive Enforcement task force, removed an unlawfully present foreign fugitive wanted in Honduras for homicide on Jan. 27.
By Press release submission | Feb 9, 2023
A judge sentenced Robert Ficzner, 27, of Fishers, Indiana to 13 years in federal prison for distributing child sexual abuse material following a joint investigation between Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and other agencies.
By Press release submission | Feb 9, 2023
Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) New York City removed Victor Hugo Chimbo-Ilbay, a citizen of Ecuador with a final order of removal, to Ecuador on Feb. 2.
