HSI Douglas, Multiagency Case Sends Human Smuggling Guide to 10 Years in Prison
DOUGLAS, Ariz. – A Mexican national was sentenced July 2 to 10 years in prison for multiple charges related to human smuggling activity.
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DOUGLAS, Ariz. – A Mexican national was sentenced July 2 to 10 years in prison for multiple charges related to human smuggling activity.
TUCSON, Ariz. — A local area man was sentenced late June to 130 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for his involvement in human smuggling resulting in death.
SAN DIEGO — The U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned the Abdul Karim Conteh human smuggling organization, a transnational criminal organization based in Tijuana, Mexico.
An indictment was unsealed containing criminal charges against the alleged leader of a human smuggling organization responsible for unlawfully bringing thousands of migrants into the United States. Along with the organization, the defendant, who was arrested in Mexico at the request of the United States, has also been designated for financial sanctions by the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
TAMPA, Fla. — A joint investigation with HSI Tampa and the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office has led to an indictment charging a Florida man with sex trafficking of a minor.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A Warwick man admitted to a federal judge June 9 that he traveled to a local hotel via a commercial rideshare provider with the intent of sexually abusing a child he thought was 13 years old.
BOSTON — An indictment was unsealed charging six individuals after HSI New England uncovered their alleged involvement in a sex trafficking conspiracy that victimized two minors and one adult.
Join Blue Campaign in raising awareness of human trafficking this World Day Against Trafficking in Persons (WDATIP) on July 30.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — HSI joined Europol to host a joint operation in The Hague, from June 24 to 28, where they developed leads to locate criminal buyers of live-streamed child sexual abuse living outside the United States.
NEWARK, N.J. — A New Jersey man was sentenced to more than 25 years in prison for coercing and inducing women to travel for the purpose of engaging in prostitution following an investigation led by HSI Newark and FBI Newark.