U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement removed Miguel Antonio Verdugo-Garcia, a 49-year-old Mexican fugitive wanted in Mexico for homicide, transporting him from the Florence Detention Center to the Dennis DeConcini Port of Entry in Nogales.
A Glendale man was sentenced to 38 months in prison for transporting illegal aliens in March 2024, one of whom died after jumping from the moving vehicle during a smuggling operation in Arizona.
A Tucson man arrested for child sexual abuse has been indicted for naturalization fraud after an ICE investigation revealed he falsely answered questions about prior crimes during his 2015 citizenship process.
Greiby Melissa Barcelo-Velasquez was sentenced to 30 months in prison for her role in smuggling over 100 Colombians into the United States, in an investigation conducted jointly by ICE and U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
The United States secured custody of 29 defendants from Mexico facing charges for racketeering, drug-trafficking, murder, and other crimes, including leaders of cartels designated as Foreign Terrorist Organizations such as the Sinaloa Cartel and CJNG.
Raul Saucedo-Huipio, 49, was extradited from Mexico to the United States to face charges in the District of Arizona for operating an international alien smuggling conspiracy on the U.S.-Mexico border, facilitating travel of migrants from countries including Bangladesh, Yemen, Pakistan, and others.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement removed Roxana Juarez-Balbastro, a 31-year-old Mexican fugitive wanted in Mexico for domestic violence, transporting her from the Eloy Detention Center to the Dennis DeConcini Port of Entry in Nogales.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Phoenix officers arrested criminal alien Francisco Alexander Pablo-Antonio, 23, a Guatemalan national facing an outstanding criminal arrest warrant in New Mexico for criminal sexual communication with a child.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection thwarted an attempted smuggling incident with an unaccompanied alien child in Yuma when agents apprehended a woman trying to transport a 5-year-old boy into the country.
A Phoenix-area man was sentenced to 52 months in prison for his role in transporting two illegal aliens in March 2024, one of whom suffered fatal injuries after jumping out of the vehicle while it was moving.
