Homeland Newswire Report News
0-1-2-3: What are the low-risk drinking guidelines?
By Homeland Newswire Report | Jun 3, 2023
In previous MyCG articles, we’ve talked about the long-term health consequences of your relationship with alcohol. Now, let’s get back to basics. What’s the big deal with the occasional binge drinking session?
2023 Inspirational Award Winners
By Homeland Newswire Report | Jun 3, 2023
The Coast Guard takes great pride in announcing the winners of the 2023 Inspirational Awards. The Commandant, Adm. Linda Fagan, and the Master Chief Petty Officer of the Coast Guard, Heath Jones, called each winner on May 23 to inform them they won.
It's hurricane season. Are you ready?
By Homeland Newswire Report | Jun 3, 2023
As the hurricane season begins on Jun. 1, MyCG has assembled some tips and resources to help you and your family prepare for any hurricanes that may come your way. Become familiar with www.ready.gov and Center for Disease Control’s hurricane guide.
Chinese national charged with attempting to bring child sexual abuse material into the US following HSI, federal partner investigation
By Homeland Newswire Report | Jun 3, 2023
A Chinese citizen was indicted for transporting child pornography following an investigation conducted by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) with assistance from the U.S. Border Patrol’s Rio Grande Valley Sector.
ERO Boston arrests fugitive noncitizen convicted of firearms charges in Brazil
By Homeland Newswire Report | Jun 3, 2023
Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Boston arrested a Brazilian fugitive May 24. The man was convicted of unlawful possession of firearms, ammunition and explosives in Brazil and sentenced to incarceration.
ERO Philadelphia removes wanted drug trafficker to Honduras
By Homeland Newswire Report | Jun 3, 2023
Enforcement and Removal Operation (ERO) Philadelphia removed Harby Rigoberto Vargas-Sanchez, a Honduran citizen with a final order of removal, to Honduras on a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Air Operations charter aircraft May 26. Vargas-Sanchez is a foreign fugitive wanted by law enforcement authorities in Honduras for illegal drug trafficking.
Man convicted of immigration fraud after lying about atrocities committed during Bosnian Civil War following HSI Tucson investigation
By Homeland Newswire Report | Jun 3, 2023
On May 19, after a nine-day jury trial, a federal judge convicted a Tucson man of charges related to visa fraud and attempted unlawful procurement of citizenship. Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and its Human Rights Violators and War Crimes Center (HRVWCC) investigated the case.
ICE conducts removal flights May 30
By Homeland Newswire Report | Jun 3, 2023
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) conducted multiple removal flights including to the Dominican Republic, Colombia, and Honduras as part of dozens of flights conducted each week.
California man pleads guilty to $1.2M financial fraud scheme after HSI-led investigation
By Homeland Newswire Report | Jun 3, 2023
A convicted felon from Orange County who used Instagram to teach his followers how to defraud banks pleaded guilty May 30 to conspiring with a bank employee and others to commit a check fraud scheme in which they sought $1.2 million.
ERO Boston arrests fugitive gang member convicted of murder in Brazil
By Homeland Newswire Report | Jun 3, 2023
Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Boston arrested a Brazilian fugitive, who was convicted of murder in Brazil, in Somerville, Massachusetts, May 23.
ERO Houston removes accused child rapist, 3 other foreign fugitives to Mexico
By Homeland Newswire Report | Jun 3, 2023
Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Houston, with assistance from ERO Mexico and the Security Alliance for Fugitive Enforcement (SAFE) Task Force, removed a foreign fugitive wanted for aggravated rape of a minor and three other foreign fugitives from the U.S. to Mexico on May 25.
HSI Baltimore investigation lands Maryland man in prison for conspiracy to smuggle weapons, munitions to Cameroon
By Homeland Newswire Report | Jun 3, 2023
An investigation conducted by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Baltimore; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms in Baltimore; and the Department of Defense’s Defense Criminal Investigative Service’s Mid-Atlantic field office, which is part of the agency’s Office of Inspector General, resulted in a 30-month prison sentence for a Maryland resident for his part in a scheme to smuggle weapons to separatists fighting against the government of Cameroon.
MS-13 gang member gets 28 years in federal prison following HSI Baltimore investigation
By Homeland Newswire Report | Jun 3, 2023
An investigation conducted by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Baltimore, the FBI and the Prince George’s County Police Department (PGPD) resulted in a Maryland MS-13 gang member receiving a lengthy federal prison sentence for his part in a racketeering conspiracy that included two murders. On May 19, a judge in the U.S. District Court in Greenbelt sentenced Franklyn Edgardo Sanchez, 26, of Adelphi, to 28 years in prison followed by five years of supervised release. Sanchez must also pay restitution in the full amount of all the victims’ losses, including funeral costs incurred by the two murder victims’ estates.
Tennessee man charged with trafficking counterfeit airbags from China
By Homeland Newswire Report | Jun 3, 2023
Following an investigation by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Nashville, a Memphis man has been indicted and arrested for one count of trafficking in counterfeit goods and one count of causing the criminal transportation of hazardous materials by air carrier.
ICE conducts removal flights May 23-25
By Homeland Newswire Report | Jun 3, 2023
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) conducted multiple removal flights including Colombia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Jamaica, Nicaragua and Peru as part of dozens of flights conducted each week.
HSI Arizona and partners seize substantial amounts of deadly drugs during 2-month surge
By Homeland Newswire Report | Jun 3, 2023
Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Office of Field Operations’ (OFO) Tucson Field Office, and Border Patrol’s Tucson and Yuma Sectors announced the results of drug interdiction operations along the border and throughout the state of Arizona from March 6 through May 8. HSI and OFO’s Operation Blue Lotus, along with the U.S. Border Patrol’s Four Horsemen operation, seized substantial amounts of methamphetamine and interdicted more than a ton of fentanyl.
ERO Boston arrests foreign fugitive wanted for drug trafficking in Brazil
By Homeland Newswire Report | Jun 3, 2023
Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Boston arrested an unlawfully present Brazilian man in Everett, Massachusetts on May 23. Since February 2023, Brazilian authorities in the province of Minas Gerais wanted the man to answer for drug trafficking charges.
HSI Arizona, Mexican officials take down firearms trafficker
By Homeland Newswire Report | Jun 3, 2023
Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office, Fiscalía General de la República (FGR), arrested the leader of a prolific transnational firearms trafficking organization operating in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, along the U.S.-Mexico border. Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Nogales led the investigation in the United States with help from other law enforcement agencies.
ERO New York City arrests previously deported Salvadoran citizen charged with rape
By Homeland Newswire Report | Jun 3, 2023
Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) New York City arrested an unlawfully present citizen of El Salvador on May 25. Local authorities recently arraigned him for rape in the first degree by forcible compulsion on a federal criminal arrest warrant.
ICE conducts removal flights May 31
By Homeland Newswire Report | Jun 3, 2023
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) today conducted multiple removal flights including to El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, and Honduras as part of dozens of flights conducted each week.