A joint international operation between agents with U.S. ICE Homeland Security Investigations and Colombia’s National Police led to the arrest of five members of a cartel-connected human smuggling network. The cartel reportedly moved hundreds of migrants into the U.S. under the guise of a travel agency and abused the U.S. asylum system.
U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials report that the Venezuelan man shot by an ICE officer in Austin on Sunday entered the U.S. illegally during the Biden Border Crisis. The man attempted to flee from an ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations officer during a targeted law enforcement operation.
A Cuban national, illegally in the United States, was sentenced in a federal court in San Antonio to 10 months in prison and ordered to pay nearly $10,000 in restitution for destruction of government property. Robyn Argote-Brooks, a 25-year-old from Havana, Cuba, was sentenced on Tuesday for causing damage to two U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) vehicles in January.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers and Immigration and Customs Enforcement HSI special agents arrested eleven alien crewmembers at the Port of Boston during a recent operation targeting criminals involved in child pornography-related offenses. The investigation, dubbed “Operation Tidal Wave,” brought the officers and special agents from their home office in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to Boston to make the arrests.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents teamed up with the Mexican Navy to seize nearly seven tons of cocaine during operations in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Chiapas, Mexico. Officials estimate the street value of the drugs to be more than $120 million (USD).
Federal agents raided a Birmingham, Alabama, manufacturing plant, detaining more than 30 people as part of an ongoing criminal investigation.
A child-predator case brought by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) against an Indiana couple concluded with sentences totaling more than 100 years for the pair arrested and charged with crimes against children. In the latest sentence in the case, a federal judge handed 35-year-old Cecil Spangler of Roanoke, Indiana, a 60-year sentence in federal prison. Spangler’s partner, Anna Fleishman, was sentenced to 50 years as part of the same case in May.
Federal immigration agents arrested a former Illinois teacher accused of helping two alleged Tren de Aragua members before and after a Chicago house party shooting that left three people dead.
A federal judge sentenced a Guatemalan illegal alien to 78 months in federal prison for firearms trafficking after an investigation revealed a scheme to move firearms from Alabama to Maryland. Lester Ramos-Perez, a 29-year-old from Guatemala who is illegally present in the United States, was part of a broader conspiracy to move the weapons, according to court records.
Federal authorities have arrested and indicted eight illegal migrants for using stolen Social Security Numbers to work in Kentucky.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers deported a 28-year-old Mexican national after an investigation showed the illegal alien from Mexico tried to fraudulently transfer her newborn baby to another individual because of a debt to smugglers. Maria Lidia Valle-Hernandez is now back home in Mexico.
A multi‑jurisdictional law‑enforcement surge in South Carolina has blown open an identity‑fraud ring that placed dozens of illegal immigrants in factory jobs. A raid on a factory led to 48 detentions and criminal charges against managers accused of helping keep the operation running.
Four men have been charged after a Homeland Security Task Force investigation discovered a sophisticated cross-border tunnel used to smuggle narcotics from Tijuana, Mexico, to a retail establishment just south of San Diego, California. The four men were charged after the discovery of the tunnel and subsequent seizure of more than a ton of cocaine.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents launched a raid of several construction sites in central Florida last week, arresting 33 migrants working without authorization and warning companies that this is just the start of future raids.
Reports from Laredo, Texas, indicate that multiple bodies were found on Sunday in a Union Pacific railway car. The bodies were found at the railyard in Laredo, not far from the Texas-Mexico border.
A criminal case against an Indiana woman came to an end when a federal judge handed 36-year-old Annamarie Fleischman a 50-year prison sentence after she pleaded guilty to charges of sexual exploitation of children and receipt of child pornography. Her sentence of confinement also carries a lifetime term of supervision upon release from federal prison. Fleischman entered her guilty plea on April 20.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) special agents and Corpus Christi police officers arrested 42-year-old Benjamin Thomas Milfet, a PTA Board Member and Mireles Elementary School volunteer, for the alleged possession of child pornography. A search warrant executed on Milfet’s property revealed a cellphone allegedly belonging to the suspect contained more than 2,000 images of child sex abuse materials, according to an ICE media release.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Agents recently announced 14 arrests that occurred in March during a multi-agency sex trafficking and child exploitation sting operation. ICE announced that among the group of 14 suspected offenders arrested were a U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel, a pastor, and a public-school guard.
A New Orleans man already facing 40 counts of possessing child sex abuse materials and the possession, trafficking, or importing of a child sex doll now faces 195 additional counts of possession of child sex abuse material involving a child under 13, and two charges of sexual abuse of an animal, according to newly filed court documents.
Louisiana authorities arrested 30‑year‑old Jamie Borne after probation officers allegedly discovered a child‑sized sex doll and electronic devices suspected of containing child sexual abuse material during a routine visit to his New Orleans home. The probationer told investigators he worked as a Roblox programmer.
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) investigation led to the conviction of a Florida man who was distributing more than 40 “animal crushing videos,” officials reported. Some of the videos depicted the physical and sexual torture of monkeys.
A convicted sex offender from Alaska is accused of paying human smugglers $5,000 to obtain a Honduran mother and her young daughter, intending to claim the child as an unaccompanied minor sponsor after she crossed the Rio Grande into Texas, according to a criminal complaint obtained by Breitbart Texas.
Governor Greg Abbott announced Thursday that 31 illegal immigrant truck drivers—many holding commercial driver’s licenses issued in California—were apprehended along I‑40 during a one‑day enforcement sweep by the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) and federal partners. The joint operation targeted suspicious CDLs and unsafe vehicles, underscoring Abbott’s warning that California’s practice of licensing illegal immigrants poses risks to motorists nationwide.
Federal authorities charged two Alabama residents with trafficking hundreds of firearms after uncovering what officials are calling the largest weapons seizure at the Southwest border—more than 500 guns allegedly bound for a Mexican drug cartel, hidden in false-walled trailers intercepted at the Juarez-Lincoln Port of Entry in Laredo, Texas. Authorities allege the pair intended to smuggle the weapons into Mexico on behalf of a Mexican drug cartel.
ICE Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents arrested an Arizona church youth group leader earlier this month on charges related to attempting to produce child pornography and possession of child sexual abuse material. The man allegedly led youth groups for multiple religious organizations in the Phoenix area, according to ICE officials.
Federal immigration authorities arrested 822 criminal aliens and immigration violators in a sweeping weeklong operation across Southeast Texas. The operation targeted violent offenders to restore public safety to communities long plagued by cartel-linked crime and illegal reentry.
U.S. Border Patrol agents and ICE Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents teamed up to dismantle a human smuggling scheme in El Paso, Texas, that ultimately led to the arrest of 35 illegal aliens. The arrests took place after the alleged smugglers crashed their vehicle while trying to evade arrest by the Border Patrol.
A federal grand jury indicted a professor at California State University Channel Islands who is charged with throwing a tear gas canister at federal agents executing a search warrant at a marijuana farm in Camarillo this summer. The grand jury returned the indictment on Wednesday.
In a dramatic escalation of the federal government’s war on transnational drug cartels, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reported the seizure of a record-breaking shipment of illicit drug precursor chemicals en route from China to drug cartels in Mexico — before they could be weaponized and unleashed on American streets.
Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) special agents teamed up with police in Stafford, Texas, to raid a suspected illegal marijuana warehouse last week. During the raid, agents arrested 18 illegal aliens who were working illegally in the warehouse.
Federal authorities in Nebraska carried out a series of raids, leading to the arrest of a group of Indian nationals who were allegedly engaged in an elaborate scheme involving sex, labor, and drug trafficking. In addition to multiple businesses owned by the suspected traffickers in Nebraska, the scheme also involved companies in Georgia and Texas.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested a Guatemalan Illegal Alien in Rhode Island one day after local police released him. The illegal alien “got away” was charged with paying to have sex with a minor and released on bond despite his status.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in San Diego re-arrested a British illegal alien after “pro-illegal alien activists” helped him escape from detention. The British national has prior charges and convictions related to drug and weapons possession, officials reported.
Former NBA star Gilbert Arenas and five other defendants, including a suspected high-level member of an Israeli transnational organized crime group, were arrested on charges of allegedly running an illegal gambling business at an Encino, California, mansion that the former player owns.
Federal agents on a plane Saturday reportedly arrested a copilot after the flight landed on charges of child pornography.
Three illegal aliens from El Salvador were arrested by Houston Police Department investigators after they allegedly attempted to meet up with underage girls. The arrests are part of an ongoing sting operation targeting dating apps, officials stated.
In exchange for a plea of guilty, a federal judge in San Antonio sentenced a Honduran illegal alien to ten years in prison for his role in leading a human smuggling organization that brought nearly 3,000 migrants into the United States without authorization. The judge also fined the Honduran national $4,500.
An identity theft investigation led to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) workplace raid at a fire equipment factory in North Carolina on Wednesday. The operation led to the arrest of at least 30 people, according to a local news report.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement teamed up with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and other law enforcement partners to execute search warrants in Alabama related to illegal game fighting. The operation netted the arrest of 55 illegal aliens and five United States citizens engaged in the illegal cockfighting scheme.
During Monday’s broadcast of FNC’s “Fox News @ Night,” Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin detailed footage of a man taken down by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
