News from January 2023
By Press release submission | Jan 3, 2023
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.
By Press release submission | Jan 3, 2023
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.
By Press release submission | Jan 3, 2023
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.
By Press release submission | Jan 3, 2023
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.
By Press release submission | Jan 3, 2023
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.
By Press release submission | Jan 3, 2023
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.
By Press release submission | Jan 3, 2023
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.
By Press release submission | Jan 3, 2023
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).
By Press release submission | Jan 3, 2023
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.
By Press release submission | Jan 3, 2023
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.
By Press release submission | Jan 3, 2023
Deportation officers from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Baltimore and special agents from Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Baltimore apprehended a Chilean national wanted for killing a police officer in his home country.
By Press release submission | Jan 3, 2023
Deportation officers from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Washington, D.C. field office arrested a Honduran citizen and felon with numerous convictions in the United States
By Press release submission | Jan 3, 2023
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) today announced an extension of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Yemen for 18 months, from March 4, 2023, through Sept. 3, 2024, due to ongoing armed conflict and extraordinary and temporary conditions that prevent Yemeni nationals from safely returning to their country.
By Press release submission | Jan 3, 2023
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to adjust certain immigration and naturalization benefit request fees.
By Press release submission | Jan 3, 2023
ANDRICE VANEC SAINVIL, 20, of Margate, Florida, pleaded guilty and was sentenced today to two years in prison for his role in a Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security ("CARES") Act fraud scheme, announced U.S. Attorney Robert J. Troester.
By Press release submission | Jan 3, 2023
Bladimir Moreno, 55, was sentenced for leading a federal racketeering and forced labor conspiracy that victimized Mexican H-2A agricultural workers in the United States between 2015 and 2017. U.S. District Court Judge Charlene Edward Honeywell of the Middle District of Florida sentenced Moreno to 118 months in prison with three years of supervised release and ordered him to pay over $175,000 in restitution to the victims.
By State Newswire | Jan 3, 2023
Securing Emerging Technologies and Their Supply Chains grant opened on Jan. 3.
By Press release submission | Jan 3, 2023
The U.S. Department of Labor has recovered $1,651,550 in back wages and liquidated damages from the owner of seven Los Angeles restaurants who denied 83 workers overtime wages and kept false pay records in an attempt to hide the wage theft.
By Press release submission | Jan 3, 2023
What began as a child labor investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor at one Arby’s restaurant location in Laurens, expanded to include other restaurants operated by the same business operator who was found to be allowing 65 minor-aged employees to work outside of federally allowed work hours.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 3, 2023
News Release: BRASÍLIA - Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland today led the official Presidential Delegation of the United States on behalf of President Joe Biden to the presidential Inauguration of His Excellency Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Secretary Haaland was joined by Special Assistant to the President and Senior ...
