LOS ANGELES – Federal criminal charges have been filed against a Van Nuys manufacturing company and one of its owners for hiring unauthorized alien workers and repeatedly taking steps to cover up the illegal hiring in an effort to retain the workers. Yoel A. Wazana, 38, owner and production manager of Wazana Brothers International, Inc., Read More »
BIRMINGHAM – A federal grand jury today indicted two men with prior criminal convictions for illegally re-entering the United States after having previously been deported, U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and ICE Homeland Security Investigations Resident Agent in Charge David Denton announced. FRANCISCO ALATORRE-CHAVEZ, 39, and JAIME SAENZ-ARENIVAR, 39, both of Mexico, are charged in Read More »
Tampa, Florida – U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Kovachevich sentenced Jose Francisco Guerra (29, Mexico) to 41 months in federal prison last week for conspiring to transport illegal aliens and for aiding and abetting in the transportation of illegal aliens. The court also ordered him to serve 5 years of supervised release and to pay Read More »
Tucson, Ariz. – On July 13, 2012, Hiliberto Jimenez-Palacios, 51, of Mexico, pleaded guilty to transportation of an illegal alien, which resulted in the death of the alien. Jimenez-Palacios was indicted by a federal grand jury in Tucson on July 27, 2011. According to the plea agreement, on June 29, 2011, Jimenez-Palacios led a group Read More »
PHOENIX – On July 12, 2012, Israel Corona, 32, of El Centro, Calif., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Susan R. Bolton to 60 months in federal prison and three years of supervised release. Corona pleaded guilty in March to aiding and abetting the transportation of illegal aliens. According to court documents, on Feb. 5, Read More »
BIRMINGHAM – A federal judge today sentenced a Bessemer man and former high school teacher and coach to eight months in prison, followed by eight months of home detention for food stamp fraud and falsely claiming a woman as his wife on immigration forms, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance, FBI Special Agent in Charge Read More »
Tampa, Florida – U.S. District Judge James D. Whittemore sentenced Pedro Ramon Gonzalez-Aguilera (60, Venezuela) to 70 months in federal prison yesterday for having reentered the United States without permission, after deportation and for aggravated identity theft. The court also ordered Gonzalez-Aguilera to serve a 3-year term of supervision, after his release from prison. The Read More »
SAN JOSE, Calif. – Two former Department of Defense employees pleaded guilty in federal court in San Jose yesterday to the unlawful procurement and attempted procurement of naturalization documents, United States Attorney Melinda Haag announced. In pleading guilty, Adeba Sultana admitted to using a false name, false citizenship information, falsely claiming her husband had been Read More »
CHARLESTON, W. Va. – Emir Fernando Bueso-Moreno, 21, of Honduras, pleaded guilty today before United States District Judge Thomas E. Johnston to illegally reentering the United States. Following his guilty plea, Bueso-Moreno was immediately sentenced by the Court to credit for time served and was handed over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to Read More »
BROWNSVILLE, Texas – Bernard Talbert, 37, a citizen of Belize, has been found guilty of attempted illegal re-entry into the United States after deportation, U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. On Aug. 10, 2011, Talbert entered the primary pedestrian inspection lane at Veterans International Bridge in Brownsville, Texas, and presented a World Passport issued by Read More »
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