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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.
ERO Philadelphia removes noncitizen wanted for murder to Dominican Republic
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 2, 2023
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - 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.
ICE conducts removal flights June 1
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 2, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - 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.
ICE conducts removal flights May 31
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 1, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - 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.
88 press releases published in May by Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 1, 2023
There were 88 press releases published by the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in May.
ICE conducts removal flights May 30
By Homeland Newswire | May 31, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - 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.
Convicted killer gets 30 years for meth trafficking following HSI, federal partner investigation
By Homeland Newswire Report | May 27, 2023
A South Carolina man and Georgia woman were sentenced May 18 for smuggling drugs through McAllen following an investigation conducted by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) with assistance from U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
ICE conducts removal flights May 23-25
By Homeland Newswire | May 26, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - 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.
Man convicted of torture, exporting weapons parts, related services to Iraq
By Homeland Newswire | May 23, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - A federal jury convicted a Pennsylvania man on May 19 for numerous crimes, including the 2015 torture of an Estonian citizen in connection with the operation of an illegal weapons manufacturing plant in Iraq’s Kurdistan region. Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Philadelphia and the...
USCGC Thetis returns home following 66-day multi-mission Caribbean Sea patrol
By Homeland Newswire Report | May 23, 2023
The crew of the USCGC Thetis (WMEC 910) returned to their home port in Key West, Thursday, following a 66-day patrol in the Florida Straits and Caribbean Sea.
ICE conducts removal flights May 18
By Homeland Newswire Report | May 21, 2023
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) conducted multiple removal flights including Ecuador, Guatemala and Honduras as part of dozens of flights conducted each week.
Former California teacher pleads guilty to possessing child sexual abuse material after HSI investigation
By Homeland Newswire Report | May 20, 2023
A former Southern California elementary school teacher and high school wrestling coach pleaded guilty May 15 to possessing child sexual abuse material, including at least one video portraying masochistic sexual conduct involving a child.