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HSI, Asia Partners Disrupt International Drug Smuggling Ring

WASHINGTON — HSI and the DEA joined the Taiwan Criminal Investigation Bureau’s International Criminal Affairs Division and other partners Sept. 5 in Taipei, Taiwan, to announce the results of a multinational counternarcotics effort dubbed Operation Sunset.

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Former Cyclist Sentenced for International Gun Smuggling

ORLANDO, Fla. – A HSI Orlando investigation has led to the sentencing of a former international cyclist to seven years in prison for smuggling firearms overseas and possessing firearms as an unlawfully present noncitizen.

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Foreign National Charged With Selling Counterfeit Drugs

HOUSTON — A foreign national has been indicted by a federal grand jury with trafficking tens of thousands of dollars of counterfeit cancer medications into the United States.

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Statement from Secretary Mayorkas on Arrest of Alleged Leaders of Sinaloa Cartel

Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas released a statement on the arrest of alleged leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel Ismael Zambada Garcia (“El Mayo”) and Joaquin Guzman Lopez.

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Smuggling Stings: HSI's Pursuit of Smugglers on 'To Catch a Smuggler'

National Geographic's To Catch a Smuggler television series provides viewers with a look at how HSI special agents work alongside U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers to detect and dismantle complex smuggling operations. 

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Colombian National Sentenced for Trafficking More Than $55 Million in Cocaine

TAMPA, Fla. — A Panama Express Strike Force investigation has led to the second conviction of a Colombian national for smuggling cocaine on the high seas by a so-called go-fast vessel.

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Ecuadorian National Pleads Guilty to Conspiring to Smuggle Over 1,700 Kilograms of Cocaine in International Waters

TAMPA, Fla. — An Ecuadorian national faces two terms of life in prison following a PANEX investigation that led to a guilty plea for smuggling cocaine on the high seas by a so-called go-fast vessel.

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Readout of Joint Task Force Alpha’s Third Anniversary Meeting

Senior Official Performing the Duties of Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Kristie Canegallo and Attorney General Merrick B. Garland marked the third anniversary of Joint Task Force Alpha (JTFA), the highly successful national effort to investigate and prosecute human smuggling at the southern border, by convening senior leaders of the Departments of Justice, Homeland Security, and State to discuss their shared, ongoing work.

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Convicted Felon Arrested for Smuggling Machine Gun Conversion Devices Into US; Possession of Firearms, Ammunition, Silencer

TAMPA, Fla. — A Florida man was arrested for smuggling machine gun conversion devices into the United States, possession of firearms and ammunition as a convicted felon, and possession of unregistered machine guns and a silencer.

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Following DHS Investigation, Treasury Sanctions Human Smuggling and Drug Trafficking Organization

Following an investigation by the Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned the Malas Mañas transnational criminal organization (TCO), a human smuggling and narcotics trafficking organization based in Sonora, Mexico, along with two individuals in its support network.