https://www.ice.gov/ ICE Headline News Feed by State en Copyright 2020 Tue, 17 Sep 2024 16:47:09 -0400 Mon, 25 Mar 2024 13:54:26 -0400 https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ero-chicago-arrests-venezuelan-citizen-ties-tren-de-aragua-criminal-organization ERO Chicago arrested Adelvis Rodriguez-Carmona, an unlawfully present citizen of Venezuela and member of the Tren de Aragua transnational criminal organization. https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ero-chicago-arrests-venezuelan-citizen-ties-tren-de-aragua-criminal-organization Mon, 25 Mar 2024 13:54:26 -0400 ICE Headline News Feed by State - Illinois https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/mexican-national-wanted-aggravated-homicide-arrested-ero-chicago ERO Chicago arrested a 44-year-old unlawfully present fugitive being sought by law enforcement authorities in Mexico for aggravated homicide. https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/mexican-national-wanted-aggravated-homicide-arrested-ero-chicago Thu, 14 Mar 2024 10:24:28 -0400 ICE Headline News Feed by State - Illinois https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ero-chicago-arrests-28-noncitizen-sex-offenders-during-nationwide-law-enforcement ICE ERO Chicago arrested 28 noncitizens with sex offense convictions during a nationwide law enforcement effort that netted 275 noncitizen sex offenders. The operation ran from Feb. 5 to Feb. 16. https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ero-chicago-arrests-28-noncitizen-sex-offenders-during-nationwide-law-enforcement Fri, 08 Mar 2024 15:48:09 -0500 ICE Headline News Feed by State - Illinois https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/armed-robbery-suspect-indicted-illinois-after-being-apprehended-hsi-houston-us Vernelle E. Hines, 30, a resident of Houston, Texas, was charged with interfering with commerce by robbery and carrying and using a firearm during a crime of violence. https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/armed-robbery-suspect-indicted-illinois-after-being-apprehended-hsi-houston-us Tue, 30 Jan 2024 13:25:17 -0500 ICE Headline News Feed by State - Illinois https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/unlawfully-present-mexican-citizen-sentenced-42-months-following-ero-chicago-arrest An unlawfully present Mexican man and previously convicted sexual predator pleaded guilty to illegal reentry in November 2023 and will serve a 42-month sentence in an Indiana Federal Bureau of Prisons facility. https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/unlawfully-present-mexican-citizen-sentenced-42-months-following-ero-chicago-arrest Wed, 13 Dec 2023 13:26:46 -0500 ICE Headline News Feed by State - Illinois https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ero-chicago-arrests-44-criminal-noncitizens-during-local-enforcement-action On Nov. 16, Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Chicago Field Office Director LaDeon Francis announced the results of a local enforcement operation conducted between Oct. 23 – Nov. 3 during which officers apprehended 44 removable noncitizens determined to be a threat to national security, public safety or border security. https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ero-chicago-arrests-44-criminal-noncitizens-during-local-enforcement-action Thu, 16 Nov 2023 14:12:07 -0500 ICE Headline News Feed by State - Illinois https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ero-chicago-removes-mexican-fugitive-wanted-his-home-country-kidnapping Rodrigo Lopez-Penaloza was removed on a flight coordinated by ICE's Air Operations Unit to Mexico. Upon arrival in Mexico, ERO turned him over to local authorities without incident. https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ero-chicago-removes-mexican-fugitive-wanted-his-home-country-kidnapping Fri, 13 Oct 2023 12:37:47 -0400 ICE Headline News Feed by State - Illinois https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ero-chicago-arrests-33-criminal-noncitizens-during-nationwide-operation The operation addressed unlawfully present noncitizens with felonies or misdemeanors for domestic violence, sexual abuse or exploitation, unlawful possession or use of a firearm, drug distribution or trafficking, or driving under the influence, and noncitizens with an executable final order of removal who have unlawfully reentered the United States after having been previously removed. https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ero-chicago-arrests-33-criminal-noncitizens-during-nationwide-operation Mon, 11 Sep 2023 15:15:43 -0400 ICE Headline News Feed by State - Illinois https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ero-chicago-removes-guatemalan-fugitive-wanted-conspiracy-his-home-country Brayan Gramajo-Jolomna, 36, was flown from Chicago on a flight coordinated by ICE’s Air Operations Unit to the La Aurora Airport in Guatemala City, Guatemala. Upon arrival in Guatemala, ERO turned Gramajo-Jolomna over to local authorities without incident. https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ero-chicago-removes-guatemalan-fugitive-wanted-conspiracy-his-home-country Fri, 01 Sep 2023 14:43:53 -0400 ICE Headline News Feed by State - Illinois https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ero-chicago-kfatf-arrest-unlawfully-present-bosnian-wanted-kansas-murder An ICE ERO Chicago deportation officer assigned to the U.S. Marshals Service’s KFATF assisted in the identification and arrest of a 37-year-old Bosnian noncitizen who had an active criminal arrest warrant issued by the Wyandotte County, Kansas, District Court for murder in the second degree on Aug. 8. https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ero-chicago-kfatf-arrest-unlawfully-present-bosnian-wanted-kansas-murder Wed, 16 Aug 2023 15:48:06 -0400 ICE Headline News Feed by State - Illinois https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ero-chicago-arrests-unlawfully-present-man-wanted-murder-mexico The man is subject to an active foreign criminal warrant in Jalisco, Mexico, issued on April 4, 2013, for aggravated homicide. https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ero-chicago-arrests-unlawfully-present-man-wanted-murder-mexico Tue, 27 Jun 2023 12:02:37 -0400 ICE Headline News Feed by State - Illinois https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/federal-agents-national-hellenic-museum-conduct-largest-repatriation-ancient-coins This return of these ancient coins was made possible by the investigative efforts of HSI Chicago, HSI’s Cultural Property, Art and Antiquities (CPAA) program, and law enforcement partners at CBP. , , https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/federal-agents-national-hellenic-museum-conduct-largest-repatriation-ancient-coins Wed, 21 Jun 2023 13:27:53 -0400 ICE Headline News Feed by State - Illinois https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ero-chicago-arrests-convicted-sexual-predator-mexican-national-following-escape-local The man is an unlawfully present Mexican national who was convicted in April 2019 by the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, for predatory criminal sexual assault of a child and sentenced to six years in the Illinois DOC. He was later paroled in April to complete his sentence on electronic monitoring. https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ero-chicago-arrests-convicted-sexual-predator-mexican-national-following-escape-local Fri, 16 Jun 2023 12:27:51 -0400 ICE Headline News Feed by State - Illinois https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/former-teacher-sentenced-36-years-prison-child-sexual-exploitation-after-hsi-chicago On May 12, U.S. District Judge Philip G. Reinhard sentenced Nathan Tauck, 32, to 36 years in federal prison followed by a lifetime of court-supervised release and to pay $60,000 in restitution. https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/former-teacher-sentenced-36-years-prison-child-sexual-exploitation-after-hsi-chicago Tue, 16 May 2023 12:14:11 -0400 ICE Headline News Feed by State - Illinois https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/illinois-man-sentenced-75-years-sextortion-minors-after-hsi-chicago-investigation The jury convicted Michael A. Ferris, 44, of Mill Shoals, of 25 felony counts of extortion, cyberstalking, and production, distribution and possession of child pornography in November 2022. https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/illinois-man-sentenced-75-years-sextortion-minors-after-hsi-chicago-investigation Mon, 24 Apr 2023 10:03:20 -0400 ICE Headline News Feed by State - Illinois https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/stolen-credit-cards-and-mail-theft-conspiracy-land-man-prison-after-hsi-chicago A federal grand jury indicted Davey Hines, 30, of Naperville, on one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States, one count of theft or receipt of stolen mail, four counts of unauthorized access device fraud and four counts of aggravated identity theft in February 2021 for events that occurred between June 2018 and December 2019. https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/stolen-credit-cards-and-mail-theft-conspiracy-land-man-prison-after-hsi-chicago Wed, 05 Apr 2023 17:43:23 -0400 ICE Headline News Feed by State - Illinois https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ero-chicago-arrests-17-noncitizens-criminal-convictions-during-nationwide-operation The enforcement effort was implemented to address removable noncitizens identified as having been convicted of attempted murder, murder-second degree, domestic violence, rape by force, sexual abuse, sexual exploitation, burglary, unlawful possession or use of a firearm, drug distribution or trafficking, or driving under the influence who had been released from incarceration on parole or placed on probation into communities under local, state or federal supervision prior to the ICE enforcement action. https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ero-chicago-arrests-17-noncitizens-criminal-convictions-during-nationwide-operation Thu, 23 Mar 2023 09:25:26 -0400 ICE Headline News Feed by State - Illinois https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/r-kelly-sentenced-20-years-following-hsi-chicago-investigation Recording artist Robert Sylvester Kelly, also known as R. Kelly, was sentenced by United States District Judge Harry D. Leinenweber to 20 years in federal prison, 19 of them concurrent with the 30-year sentence previously imposed in the Eastern District of New York Feb. 23. https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/r-kelly-sentenced-20-years-following-hsi-chicago-investigation Fri, 24 Feb 2023 11:43:41 -0500 ICE Headline News Feed by State - Illinois https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ero-chicago-removes-mexican-foreign-fugitive-wanted-homicide Carlos J. Arreguin, 37, was flown from Chicago on a flight coordinated by ICE’s Air Operations Unit to the Valley International Airport in Harlingen, Texas. On the same date, ERO Harlingen escorted him via ground transportation to the border and turned him over to Mexican authorities at the Gateway Port of Entry in Brownsville, Texas, without incident. https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ero-chicago-removes-mexican-foreign-fugitive-wanted-homicide Thu, 12 Jan 2023 08:28:50 -0500 ICE Headline News Feed by State - Illinois https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/illinois-native-more-2-decades-international-domestic-law-enforcement-experience R. Sean Fitzgerald has been selected as the SAC for the HSI Chicago area of operations. A native of Illinois who has also served as HSI Chicago’s deputy SAC, Fitzgerald brings a wealth of international and domestic operations experience to his new position. https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/illinois-native-more-2-decades-international-domestic-law-enforcement-experience Wed, 30 Nov 2022 13:34:54 -0500 ICE Headline News Feed by State - Illinois https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/oklahoma-sex-offender-sentenced-transporting-child-sexual-abuse-material-following According to court documents, Matthew Alan McNair, 41, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, was in Indiana in the summer of 2017 when he utilized an electronic device to take sexually explicit photographs of an 18-month-old infant. McNair took multiple sexually explicit photos of the infant on at least three different dates that summer. https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/oklahoma-sex-offender-sentenced-transporting-child-sexual-abuse-material-following Fri, 28 Oct 2022 11:17:18 -0400 ICE Headline News Feed by State - Illinois https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/hsi-chicago-brings-cyber-financial-threat-expertise-annual-secure-cash-and-transport The briefing covered trends in cryptocurrency, cyber-enabled crimes, bulk cash smuggling, and money laundering. Briefers also discussed the role that intelligence and technology play in combatting these crimes and how these crimes permeate the breadth of HSI’s investigative mission set. https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/hsi-chicago-brings-cyber-financial-threat-expertise-annual-secure-cash-and-transport Fri, 21 Oct 2022 11:20:19 -0400 ICE Headline News Feed by State - Illinois https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/hsi-joint-law-enforcement-partner-investigation-leads-conviction-artist-r-kelly Kelly, 55, of Chicago, was convicted on three counts of producing child pornography and three counts of enticing a minor to engage in sexual activity. Producing child pornography carries a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years in federal prison and a maximum of 20 years. The maximum sentence for enticement of a minor is 10 years. In all, Kelly faces a sentence of 10-90 years in prison. https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/hsi-joint-law-enforcement-partner-investigation-leads-conviction-artist-r-kelly Thu, 15 Sep 2022 16:28:12 -0400 ICE Headline News Feed by State - Illinois https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/tech-executive-receives-federal-sentence-illegally-exporting-equipment-pakistan Obaidullah Syed, 67, of Northbrook, pleaded guilty last year to conspiring to export goods from the U.S. without a license from the Department of Commerce and to submit false export information. U.S. District Judge Mary M. Rowland on Tuesday sentenced Syed to a year and a day in federal prison. Prior to sentencing, Syed forfeited $247,000 of criminally derived funds to the U.S. government. https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/tech-executive-receives-federal-sentence-illegally-exporting-equipment-pakistan Fri, 20 May 2022 10:57:21 -0400 ICE Headline News Feed by State - Illinois https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-removes-bosnian-herzegovinian-convicted-providing-material-support-terrorist Bosnian Herzegovinian national Ramiz Zijad Hodzic, 47, was flown from Chicago O’Hare International Airport to Bosnia-Herzegovina Airport, Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina on a flight coordinated by ICE’s Air Operations Unit. https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-removes-bosnian-herzegovinian-convicted-providing-material-support-terrorist Tue, 19 Apr 2022 14:28:07 -0400 ICE Headline News Feed by State - Illinois