Tag: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Trump Targeted In Assassination Threats By PA Man From Same County As 2024 Shooting: DOJ
A Pennsylvania man who threatened to assassinate President Donald J. Trump and other U.S. officials has now been sentenced, federal authorities announced on Thursday, Sept. 3.
Shawn Monper, 33, of Butler, admitted in federal court to making threats to assault and murder U.S. officials and federal law enforcement agents, according to U.S. Attorney Troy Rivetti.
Monper pleaded guilty to two counts related to threatening officials, and as part of his plea agreement, accepted responsibility for additional charges tied to his online activity on Monday, April 13, authorities said.
The case stems…
NJ Women In ICE Custody After Prostitution Bust At Garden City Red Roof Inn
A prostitution investigation at a Long Island hotel led to two arrests and federal immigration action, authorities said.
Elizabete Aguiar Pereira, 42, of Newark, and Girlene Da Silva Dos Santos, 31, of Elizabeth, were taken into custody during an undercover operation at the Red Roof Inn in East Garden City, Nassau County police said. The arrests happened on Monday, March 23, at 3:50 p.m.
Detectives with the Narcotics Vice Squad determined prostitution activity was taking place at the Dibblee Drive hotel, leading to both women being arrested without incident.
Pereira was charged with promot…
Pennsylvania, Maryland Women Among 3 Charged For Prostitution On Long Island: Police
Three women were arrested after an undercover investigation uncovered prostitution at a spa in Albertson, Nassau County police announced on Friday, Sept. 26.
The Narcotics/Vice Squad conducted the operation at Best Spa, located at 965 Willis Avenue, at 1:35 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 25, according to detectives.
Zuleica Hernandez, 34, of Pennsylvania, Guofeng Li Larsen, 56, of Queens, and Mayori Ariza Ascanio, 33, of Maryland, were arrested without incident, police said.
Larsen was charged with Unauthorized Practice of a Profession and Prostitution. Hernandez and Ascanio were both charged wit…
Brutal Kidnapping, Beating Of 15-Year-Old In Brentwood Earns MS-13 Member Decades In Prison
An MS-13 gang member will spend over a half century behind bars for kidnapping and brutally assaulting a 15-year-old boy inside an abandoned building at Long Island’s Pilgrim Psychiatric Center.
Yeison “Yerba” Chavez-Campos, 23, of Huntington Station, was sentenced to 52 years in prison in Suffolk County Court on Wednesday, Aug. 20, after a jury convicted him of gang assault, kidnapping, and related crimes.
The attack happened on Jan. 6, 2024, when Chavez-Campos and other MS-13 members lured the victim to the Huntington Train Station, prosecutors said. The group robbed him and repeatedly be…
ICE Place Detainer On Undocumented DUI Driver Charged In Lakewood Double Fatal: Feds
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has placed a detainer on a 43-year-old man charged with killing a New Jersey mother and her 11-year-old daughter in a drunk driving, head-on crash last month, the agency said.
Raul Luna-Perez, 43, of Red Bank, entered the U.S. illegally at an unknown date and location. The agency said he had multiple prior arrests, including:
June 25, 2023, by Red Bank Police for simple domestic violence.
March 20, 2025, and April 17, 2025, for DUI, also by Red Bank Police.
Raul Luna-Perez
Ocean County Prosecutor's Office
Records show he was b…
Child Sex Assault Charges Spark Re-Arrest Of Pottstown Out Under Sanctuary Policies By ICE
A man accused of sexually assaulting a child was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Pottstown days after Montgomery County officials released him under sanctuary policies, ICE announced on Tuesday, July 29.
Oscar Adalberto Penate, 56, a citizen of El Salvador, was taken into custody on Sunday, July 27, by ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations Philadelphia, Homeland Security Investigations Philadelphia, and IRS Philadelphia.
Penate had been arrested on Tuesday, July 22, by Pottstown Township Police and charged with multiple felonies, including involuntary deviate sexu…
ICE Arrests Child Rapist In Ossining After Prison Release, Feds Say
A Salvadoran national convicted of repeatedly raping children was taken into custody by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement following his release from a New York prison, officials said.
Jacobo Argueta Fuentes, 33, was arrested by ICE’s Buffalo Enforcement and Removal Operations team on Tuesday, July 23, in Ossining, federal authorities said.
The 33-year-old, who entered the country illegally around 2011, had been convicted of more than a dozen sex crimes involving minors, including seven counts of rape, two counts of using a child in a sexual performance, four counts of sexual abuse, a…
