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Virginia man sentenced to 36 years for production of child sexual abuse material after HSI Norfolk investigation

An investigation conducted by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Norfolk and the Chesapeake Police Department has resulted in a 36-year federal prison sentence for a Virginia man for producing child sexual abuse material. Jonathan Wilson, 35, of Chesapeake, received the lengthy prison sentence June 1 at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia in Norfolk.


Immigration

ICE conducts removal flights June 2

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) conducted multiple removal flights including to El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras as part of dozens of flights conducted each week.


Immigration

2 Nigerian nationals plead guilty to fraud scheme involving elderly US victims after HSI Tucson investigation

Two Nigerian nationals who were extradited to the United States from the United Kingdom pleaded guilty to operating a transnational inheritance fraud scheme in May after a Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Tucson investigation involving the Department of Justice’s Consumer Protection Branch and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS).


Immigration

ICE conducts removal flights June 1

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) conducted multiple removal flights including to Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Peru as part of dozens of flights conducted each week.


Immigration

ERO Philadelphia removes noncitizen wanted for murder to Dominican Republic

ERO Philadelphia removed a citizen of the Dominican Republic with a final order of removal on an ICE Air Operations charter aircraft May 30. Edickson Paulino Castano, 52, is a foreign fugitive wanted by law enforcement authorities in the Dominican Republic for murder.


Immigration

ICE conducts removal flights June 7

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) conducted multiple removal flights including to Guatemala and Honduras as part of dozens of flights conducted each week throughout the hemisphere and around the world.


Immigration

ICE conducts removal flights June 8

News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) conducted multiple removal flights including to Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Peru as part of dozens of flights conducted each week throughout the hemisphere and around the world.


Immigration

ICE conducts removal flights June 7

News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) conducted multiple removal flights including to Guatemala and Honduras as part of dozens of flights conducted each week throughout the hemisphere and around the world.


Immigration

ICE conducts removal flights June 6

News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) conducted multiple removal flights including to the Dominican Republic and Guatemala as part of dozens of flights conducted each week throughout the hemisphere and around the world.


Immigration

Virginia man sentenced to 36 years for production of child sexual abuse material after HSI Norfolk investigation

News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - An investigation conducted by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Norfolk and the Chesapeake Police Department has resulted in a 36-year federal prison sentence for a Virginia man for producing child sexual abuse material. Jonathan Wilson, 35, of Chesapeake, received the lengthy prison sentence June 1 at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia in Norfolk.


Immigration

ICE conducts removal flights June 2

News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) conducted multiple removal flights including to El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras as part of dozens of flights conducted each week.


Immigration

2 Nigerian nationals plead guilty to fraud scheme involving elderly US victims after HSI Tucson investigation

News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - Two Nigerian nationals who were extradited to the United States from the United Kingdom pleaded guilty to operating a transnational inheritance fraud scheme in May after a Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Tucson investigation involving the Department of Justice’s Consumer Protection Branch and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS).


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Chinese national charged with attempting to bring child sexual abuse material into the US following HSI, federal partner investigation

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.


Immigration

ERO Boston arrests fugitive noncitizen convicted of firearms charges in Brazil

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.


Immigration

ERO Philadelphia removes wanted drug trafficker to Honduras

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.


Immigration

Man convicted of immigration fraud after lying about atrocities committed during Bosnian Civil War following HSI Tucson investigation

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.


Immigration

ICE conducts removal flights May 30

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.


Immigration

California man pleads guilty to $1.2M financial fraud scheme after HSI-led investigation

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.


Immigration

ERO Boston arrests fugitive gang member convicted of murder in Brazil

Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Boston arrested a Brazilian fugitive, who was convicted of murder in Brazil, in Somerville, Massachusetts, May 23.


Immigration

ERO Houston removes accused child rapist, 3 other foreign fugitives to Mexico

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.