ICE's #FridayFive | Dec. 6, 2019

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) sent this bulletin at 12/06/2019 04:58 PM EST

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ICE HSI announces record-high number of criminal arrests in FY19

During fiscal year 2019 (FY19), U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) effectively combated transnational criminal threats against the United States resulting in a record-breaking number of criminal arrests. HSI's investigative strategies resulted in a record-high 37,547 criminal arrests, almost a 10 percent increase from FY18, as well as the seizure of more than $775 million in currency and assets from criminal proceeds. Read more

Human Rights Violators | ICE removes former civil patrol leader accused of human rights abuses in Guatemala

Officers with ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) removed Juan Alecio Samayoa Cabrera, a Guatemalan citizen wanted in his home country in connection with abuses committed against indigenous Mayans in the early 1980s. Read more

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Enforcement & Removal | ICE arrests 12 foreign fugitives during 5-day operation

All of those arrested are considered Fugitive Alien Removal cases, wanted for committing serious crimes abroad

Officers from ERO New York arrested 12 foreign fugitives during a five-day period, ending Dec. 5, in New York City and Westchester County. Read more

Contraband | Final defendant in largest cartel drug scout prosecution in Arizona sentenced to prison

Multiple agencies participated in the investigation, dubbed Operation Rocky Top 2

The final defendant in United States v. Felix-Ramirez, et al, an eighteen-defendant indictment combatting the activities of a transnational drug trafficking organization, was sentenced to prison Nov. 25, by Senior U.S. District Judge Cindy K. Jorgenson. All defendants pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute a controlled substance. Read more

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