A member of the Colombian Medellin-based drug cartel who coordinated the kidnapping of an undercover federal agent in 2005 has been arrested, federal authorities said Friday. ...more

December 29, 2007

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

Clark Elementary students' jaws dropped when an Immigration and Customs Enforcement helicopter approached to make a landing on the school's baseball field last week. ...more

November 21, 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

A former immigration enforcement agent who was based at MacDill Air Force Base was arrested Friday night in Tampa in connection with the alleged rape of a 39-year-old Jamaican detainee, according to records and published reports. ...more

November 18, 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

TAMPA - Hillsborough County sheriff's detectives have charged two men with trafficking in cocaine after a monthlong investigation into a distributing organization operating in District 1, sheriff's spokeswoman Debbie Carter said. ...more

September 7, 2007