Mexican citizen sentenced for illegally re-entering the US
Raul Vivas-Ceja was deported from the United States on Oct. 8, 2010. He illegally re-entered the country and was again deported Sept. 28, 2012, after serving a 12-month sentence for a felony related to...
View ArticleNigerian woman charged with Wisconsin wire fraud scheme
Sally Iriri, 32, a Nigerian national who was living in Chicago, is charged in a three-count indictment with wire fraud. The indictment alleges that from October 2013 to March 2015 she and others not...
View ArticleCanadian man sentenced in Wisconsin to 2 years in federal prison for...
Donald Splonick, 65, of Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, was sentenced April 24 by U.S. District Judge William Conley to 24 months in federal prison for illegally re-entering the United States after...
View Article3 young missing Wisconsin children located and returned safely from Mexico
Angela S. Gasca, 10, and her siblings Diana K., 8, and Damian G., 2, went missing Feb. 5 and were believed to be endangered. The children were in the company of their mother, Amanda Ibarra Gasca, and...
View ArticleMexican national sentenced to 2 years in federal prison for illegal re-entry
Carlos Valencia-Zepeda, 34, of Mexico, was sentenced Sept. 9 by U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to 18 months in federal prison for illegally reentering the United States after having been...
View ArticleWisconsin man sentenced to 18 months in prison for passing forged postal notes
Robert James Zoellner, 52, of Ripon, Wisconsin, was sentenced Oct. 22 by Chief U.S. District Judge William C. Griesbach. Zoellner previously pleaded guilty to a single count of passing forged postal...
View ArticleNigerian woman sentenced in Wisconsin to 10 years for bilking her victims out...
Sally Iriri, 33, a Nigerian national who was living in Chicago, was sentenced Nov. 20 by U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson, Western District of Wisconsin, for wire fraud. Iriri’s co-defendant,...
View ArticleWisconsin man charged with producing child pornography
Adrian Jaimes, 21, from Nekoosa, Wisconsin, is charged with using and persuading a minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing child pornography.
View ArticleMexican man sentenced to 30 months in federal prison for illegally...
Jose Santiago-Cruz, 38, of Oaxaca, Mexico, was sentenced June 23 by U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb to 30 months in federal prison for illegally re-entering the United States after having been...
View Article4-time deported Mexican man sentenced in Wisconsin to nearly 4 years in...
Rolando Reyes-Cruz, 49, a Mexico national who was residing in New Lisbon, Wisconsin, was sentenced July 6 by U.S. District Judge James Peterson to 46 months in federal prison for illegally re-entering...
View Article4-time deported Mexican man sentenced in Wisconsin to 15 months in federal...
Jesus Salazar-Martinez, 30, a Mexican national who was illegally residing in Baraboo, Wisconsin, was sentenced Sept. 13 by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to 15 months in federal prison for...
View Article2 Milwaukee men charged in federal court with attempting to provide material...
Jason Michael Ludke, 35, of Milwaukee, was charged in a criminal complaint with attempting to provide material support or resources to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, a designated foreign...
View ArticleMilwaukee man pleads guilty to sex trafficking, related crimes
Paul Carter, 46, of Milwaukee, pleaded guilty in the Eastern District of Wisconsin Nov. 21 to eight counts of sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion and one count of conspiracy to commit forced...
View ArticleWisconsin man sentenced to 97 months in federal prison for receiving child...
Adrian Jaimes, 22, of Nekoosa, Wisconsin, was sentenced Jan. 11 by U.S. District Judge James Peterson to 97 months (eight years and one month) in federal prison, to be followed by 20 years of...
View ArticleICE Milwaukee arrests 16 during operation targeting criminal aliens
All 16 arrested during this operation had been convicted of crimes in the United States and fall within ICE’s enforcement priorities. Their convictions include the following crimes:...
View ArticleOwner of Milwaukee-area gas stations charged with forced labor trafficking
According to the indictment, between 2009 and 2011, Harshinder Bhatia, 58, forced and threatened an Indian national woman to work causing her to believe that if she did not perform such labor and...
View Article3 sentenced in Wisconsin cyber romance scheme that bilked $14 million from US...
Richard Ugbah, 36, a Nigerian citizen living in Atlanta, Georgia, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to 12 years in federal prison for wire fraud. Ugbah was also ordered to forfeit...
View ArticleWisconsin man sentenced to 21 years in federal prison to sex trafficking...
Paul Carter, 47, of Milwaukee, was sentenced Wednesday to 21 years in prison, reduced by three years for time served. On Oct. 6, 2017, he pleaded guilty to four counts of sex trafficking by...
View ArticleWisconsin man pleads guilty to producing child pornography outside US
Jeffrey H. Ernisse, 61, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Court Judge Lynn S. Adelman to two counts of producing child pornography, one count of engaging in illicit sexual conduct with a minor in the...
View ArticleWisconsin school official arrested for sex trafficking, producing child...
Daniel Peggs, 32, of Altoona, Wisconsin, was indicted Feb. 12 by a federal grand jury. The indictment, unsealed after his arrest, alleges he recruited a minor to engage in a commercial sex act, and...
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