Preventing Child Exploitation | ICE HSI roots out child predators at home and abroad
To protect the most vulnerable and root out predators has been a high priority of HSI for more than two decades.
Throughout the years, ICE Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) child exploitation prevention efforts morphed from a small center in Fairfax, Virginia, into a worldwide initiative. The launch of HSI’s flagship initiative, Operation Predator, and key domestic and foreign partnerships, have been paramount in the expansion of both its reach and success.
The goal: To identify, investigate, and arrest child predators who possess, trade, and produce child sexual abuse material; travel overseas for sex with minors; and engage in the sex trafficking of children. Learn more
ERO | ICE removes Turkish national wanted to serve remainder of prison sentence
Ozgur Mavruk was removed from the US via a commercial air flight and transferred into the custody of Turkish law enforcement authorities
ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) deportation officers removed a Turkish national Sept. 16, wanted in his home country to serve the almost four years remaining on his imposed prison sentence. According to Turkish law enforcement authorities, in February 2009, Mavruk, assisted by others, detained, drugged and raped a prosecution witness in order to compel that witness to change her testimony against the leader of a Turkish criminal organization, of which Mavruk was a member. Read more
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