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Former Maryland youth football coach sentenced to 40 years for producing child sexual abuse material

An investigation conducted by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Baltimore and the Calvert County Sheriff’s Office landed a former youth and high school football coach in federal prison for 40 years, followed by a lifetime of supervised release, for producing child sexual abuse material. Moshe Michael Imel, 53 of Owings, received the 40-year prison sentence Aug. 3 for two counts of production of child pornography involving two minor victims.

Drug importer sentenced to 41 months for importing fentanyl, heroin, meth and cocaine into US

A judge sentenced Angel Daniel Miranda-Contreras, 29, of Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, to 41 months in prison during the last week of July. Miranda-Contreras was found guilty of attempting to smuggle drugs into the United States following a Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Arizona probe. He pleaded guilty to importation of fentanyl, importation of heroin, importation of methamphetamine and importation of cocaine on April 10.

HSI San Diego helps identify, locate sex-trafficked minors

HSI San Diego, the FBI’s San Diego Field Office and the San Diego Human Trafficking Task Force, in partnership with state and local agencies, identified and located 15 victims of sex trafficking during Operation Cross Country, a nationwide enforcement campaign.

HSI Phoenix helps identify and locate sex-trafficked minors

HSI Phoenix and other law enforcement agencies identified and located five minor sex trafficking victims as part of Operation Cross Country, a nationwide enforcement campaign. During the operation, authorities arrested one alleged trafficker and 31 additional subjects for allegedly attempting to have sexual contact with minors.

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