The Pinellas County Sheriff's Office has released the name of a man found shot to death this month in a rented house in Seminole where he lived with a number of people who worked at the same restaurant. ...more

June 28, 2008

More than 80 people were arrested in a federal sweep of four companies that allegedly arranged fraudulent marriages to earn immigrants citizenship, even organizing wedding photos with bridal gowns and elaborate, but fake, wedding cakes, federal officials said Friday. ...more

May 10, 2008

A man facing deportation to Haiti despite his acquittal on terrorism conspiracy charges can speak publicly about his immigration situation but not about the underlying criminal case, a federal judge ruled Monday. ...more

January 29, 2008

Teams assigned to eliminate the nation's backlog of immigration fugitives have arrested nearly twice as many people this fiscal year as the previous year, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman Barbara Gonzalez said Tuesday. ...more

December 6, 2007

TAMPA - Teams assigned to eliminate the nation's backlog of immigration fugitives have arrested nearly twice as many people this fiscal year as the previous year, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman Barbara Gonzalez said today. ...more

December 4, 2007

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement formally has adopted federal guidelines aimed at softening treatment of illegal immigrants who are arrested in worksite raids and are pregnant, nursing infants or serving as sole caregivers to minor children or seriously ill relatives. ...more

November 24, 2007

Investigators used SunPass records and a Jamaican woman's memory for detail to file rape charges against an immigration agent who insisted he drove her only from one detention center to another. ...more

November 20, 2007

TAMPA - A former immigration agent employed at MacDill Air Force Base was arrested in Tampa Friday night in connection with the rape of a 39-year-old Jamaican detainee, according to records and published reports. Wilfredo Vazquez, 35, is accused of sexually assaulting the mother of two at his Tamarac home, in Broward County, on Sept. 21, the Miami Herald reported in today's edition, citing a criminal complaint filed Friday in Miami federal court. ...more

November 17, 2007

BRADENTON - For as little as $125, authorities say, two Bradenton men gave undocumented immigrants what they could not get lawfully: driver's licenses, green cards and Social Security documents. The IDs, created using fake names and stolen Social Security numbers, meant the undocumented immigrants could get jobs and drive cars, privileges typically afforded only to people with legal documentation, investigators and prosecutors say. ...more

October 26, 2007

The leader of an unrecognized American Indian tribe was arrested Thursday in a raid by federal authorities investigating claims the group sold tribal memberships to immigrants with the promise that joining would provide U.S. citizenship. ...more

September 7, 2007