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Florida men sentenced for production and receipt of child pornography following ICE and Martin County Sheriff's Office investigation MIAMI - Randy Charles Harris, 37, and Salvador Pascual Aguirre, 23, both of Indiantown, Fla., were sentenced yesterday in the Southern District of Florida to serve prison sentences for their involvement in a child pornography case in which video clips of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct between January 2005 and June 2007 were produced. The announcement was made yesterday by Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher of the Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney R. Alexander Acosta for the Southern District of Florida...

What if you had to choose whether to release a child molester into your neighborhood, or else release a murderer. Which would you choose to unleash on your neighbors? What if the choice were a kidnapper versus a rapist? One of them must be given permission to live among the innocents in your town, and you‘re the one who must choose which it will be. What if you had to make impossible choices such as these every day? That’s the situation faced by deportation officers (DOs) in their jobs, as described in The Deporter, written by former deportation officer Ames...

Police in Chesterfield Township say an Albanian man suspected of sexually assaulting an 83-year-old woman and spying on other women was ordered to be deported in 2004 and should never have been in the U.S. When the attacker left he threatened to come back for her if she notified anyone. She courageously called the police and assisted in the investigation. A Michigan State Police forensic artist prepared a sketch of the suspect that was circulated locally and in the media. In response to that information another woman came forward with information that lead to the identification and arrest of Altin...

Contrary to what President Bush claims, family values do stop at the Rio Grande for many illegal aliens. In fact since 1999, there have been more than 1,000,000 sex crimes committed in the United States by illegal aliens. In addition to suppressing wages, driving drunk, bankrupting our hospitals, and over-crowding our jails and public schools, illegal aliens are preying upon our children. Using U.S. Department of Justice, Immigration, as well as state and local law enforcement data, the Violent Crimes Institute has determined that there are no less than 240,000 illegal alien sex offenders currently inside the U.S. In Operation...

FORT WORTH -- A convicted sex offender who was deported to Mexico in 2003 was arrested Wednesday in Fort Worth after authorities learned he had returned to Tarrant County. Hilario Soto-Hernandez, 41, was living in the 1700 block of Denver Avenue and working at a restaurant in Justin, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Convicted felons who re-enter the United States after being deported can be sentenced to as much as 20 years in prison. Soto-Hernandez was convicted of aggravated sexual assault of a child in 1995. He molested a 7-year-old girl for more than six months while she...

An 18-year-old man on Wednesday was deported to Mexico after being convicted of sexually assaulting a 3-year-old girl at his family's daycare center. Reyes Salazar-Clara on June 13 was convicted of second-degree criminal sexual conduct. Salazar-Clara is a citizen of Mexico who illegally entered the United States in June 2005, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said. The deportation is part of the agency's Operation Predator, a four-year initiative aimed at those who sexually exploit children. According to a criminal complaint, police were called to the Hennepin County Medical Center on Feb. 21, where they found a 3-year-old girl suffering from...

The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One Million Sex Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants in the United States Copyright © 2006, Violent Crimes Institute, www.drdsk.com By Deborah Schurman-Kauflin, Ph.D. Violent Crimes Institute, Atlanta, Georgia Introduction: After conducting a 12 month in-depth study of illegal immigrants who committed sex crimes and murders for the time period of January 1999 through April 2006 , it is clear that the U.S. public faces a dangerous threat from sex predators who cross the U.S. borders illegally. There were 1500 cases analyzed in depth. They included: serial rapes, serial murders, sexual homicides, and child...

NEW YORK -- Immigration agents Wednesday rounded up 50 foreign-born New Yorkers who had been convicted of sex offenses, including child molestation and rape, but remained free after receiving relatively light punishments. Twelve sex offenders were paraded before journalists as they left a federal building in Manhattan in chains, bound for detention centers where they will face deportation proceedings. (snip) Fourteen of the people arrested were legal permanent residents of the U.S. (snip) Most of the remaining sex offenders were in the country illegally, officials said.

Top officials at the Department of Homeland Security recently revealed that arrests for child sex crimes during the first two years of Operation Predator have exceeded 6,000 and 85 percent of them are criminal immigrants. Operation Predator is Immigration and Customs Enforcement's comprehensive initiative to safeguard children from foreign national pedophiles, international sex tourists, Internet child pornographers and human traffickers. Operation Predator evolved out of ICE’s mission to find and deport illegal aliens, particularly those with criminal records. The majority of the arrests under Operation Predator - roughly 85% - have involved foreign nationals in this country whose child sex...

NEW YORK CHILD PSYCHOLOGIST ARRESTED FOR CHILD PORN -- Arrest is latest in global Internet child pornography probe that has netted more than 1,200 -- LONG ISLAND, N.Y. - The Suffolk County Police Department Computer Crimes Section and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Resident Agent-in-Charge Office in Long Island today announced the arrest of a Long Island-based child psychologist for possession of child pornography. Peter Mies, 57, of 38 Jay Court, Northport, New York, was arrested this morning by Suffolk County detectives and ICE agents as a result of a joint, ongoing investigation into the receipt and possession...

ORANGE COUNTY MAN WHO “WEB-CAST” EXPLICIT IMAGES OF A PRE-SCHOOL-AGED RELATIVE INDICTED FOR CHILD PORNOGRAPHY SANTA ANA, Calif. – An Orange County man who engaged in sex acts with a then four-year-old relative and web-cast the images over the Internet to computer users in Texas and Indiana has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of producing and possessing child pornography. Jed Philip Larson, Sr., 44, faces up to 40 years in prison if convicted of the charges contained in the two-count indictment handed down today. Larson was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Orange County...

News Release August 15, 2005 ICE ARRESTS 25 CHILD SEX OFFENDERS IN CHICAGO AREA CHICAGO—U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) special agents, working with area county law enforcement authorities, last week arrested 25 foreign-born, convicted sex offenders who had preyed on children and minors. Those arrested include citizens of six countries: Mexico (18), Bosnia (3), Philippines (1), Peru (1), Ireland (1), and Canada (1). They include 15 permanent residents of the U.S. (“green card” holders), nine individuals who entered the U.S. illegally, and one person who entered the U.S. on a visitor’s visa but violated its terms by overstaying. All...

BISMARCK, N.D. — A Dickinson man was sentenced to 50 years in prison today for sexually exploiting minors and possessing child pornography, following an investigation conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) special agents. Todd C. Zastoupil, 32, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Chief Judge Daniel L. Hovland to 50 years in prison for sexually exploiting minors, to run concurrently with a 20-year sentence for possessing material involving sexually exploiting minors. Both sentences are the statutory maximum length allowed by law. A videotape of Zastoupil sexually abusing two children under the age of 10 was discovered in his...

Immigration agents and Nassau County Police combined to arrest 25 illegal aliens wanted for sex crimes in Nassau. The arrests follows a similar sweep in Suffolk County, where last week officials announced arresting 27 sex offenders, who were in this country illegally. It's being called Operation Predator, where federal immigration agents team with local police to arrest and deport sex offenders who are also illegal immigrants. Family members of some of those arrested say their relatives are being charged with sex crimes even if they have a consensual ongoing relationship with a girl age 16. An immigration agent - Salvatore...

It took a police officer, posing online as a 14-year-old boy, two minutes to attract the interest of WSVN meteorologist Bill Kamal, federal law enforcement officials said Monday.Oct. 18, 4 p.m.: St. Lucie County Sheriff's detective Neil W. Spector signs on to an America Online chatroom called ``Boyzformen.''Oct. 18, 4:02 p.m.: Kamal, 47, using a sexually suggestive screen name, instant messages Spector that he's looking for a son to have sex with.On Sunday, police officers followed Kamal from his Miami Beach condo to a convenience store parking lot in Fort Pierce, where he had arranged to meet his correspondent, and...

February 27, 2004 Terrorism fighting weapons used in stings Casino exec has not been charged By Jace Radke <jace@lasvegassun.com>LAS VEGAS SUNUsing resources brought together to fight terrorism, a newly combined federal agency has been able to root out thousands of case of child pornography across the country. In Nevada, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Operation Predator, which targets child pornography and sex crimes, has arrested 46 illegal immigrants and one Nevadan. Sources said that the search warrant served recently on casino executive Kenny Wynn, the brother of casino magnate Steve Wynn, was part of the operation's investigation into child pornography....

January 29, 2004 Homeland Security Announces New Milestones in its Global Effort to Combat Child Sex Predators Measures Include Publicity Campaign and Pact with National Child Protection Group LOS ANGELES, Calif. – The Department of Homeland Security’s U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) today announced new milestones in Operation Predator, the Department’s ongoing campaign to combat child sexual predators worldwide. The advances include the signing of an agreement with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC). Today’s announcement follows a series of ICE enforcement actions over the last three weeks in the Los Angeles area that have resulted...

Fingerprints help agents find man deported for life BY BILL HESS Sierra Vista Herald/Review DOUGLAS - The fingerprinting of an apprehended illegal immigrant has again led to discovering a person who was deported for life after being convicted in Colorado for sexual assault of a child. Jose Espinoza-Lagunas, 25, was taken into custody Thursday by U.S. Border Patrol agents from the Douglas Station about 10 miles east of Douglas, Tucson Sector spokesman Rob Daniels said Friday afternoon. As part of the routine process involving illegal immigrants his fingerprints were transmitted through a biometric identification system and they came back that...

U.S. Arrests 29 Convicted Foreign Sex Offenders Thu January 29, 2004 04:51 PM ET NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. agents on Thursday arrested 29 foreigners previously convicted of committing sex crimes in New York as part of an international crackdown on pedophilia, officials said. The offenders, mostly from Latin America and the Caribbean region, committed crimes in suburban Westchester County north of New York, including rape, sexual abuse, sodomy, endangering the welfare of a minor and sexual misconduct. Twenty-five victimized children. They include a Mexican man who sexually abused his 4- and 7-year-old nieces, a Guatemalan man who sexually abused...

Eleven child predators arrested in Rhode Island Nov 21, 04:12 (Providence-AP) -- Government officials arrested 11 foreigners as part of a nationwide crackdown aimed at rounding up sex offenders and child predators. The arrests were made yesterday in six Rhode Island cities. They are: Central Falls, East Providence, Pawtucket, Providence, West Warwick and Woonsocket. The government says they'll move to deport the people arrested. They include foreigners convicted of sex crimes such as rape, molestation, sexual assault and sexual abuse. The arrests were part a nationwide crackdown by the U-S Immigration and Customs Enforcement called "Operation Predator." More than...