
CBP Uncovers Record $1 Billion in Duty Evasion, 300% Above Annual Average
U.S. Customs and Border Protection says it has uncovered more than $1 billion in evaded duties under the Enforce and Protect Act, a first in the program's 10-year history.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection says it has uncovered more than $1 billion in evaded duties under the Enforce and Protect Act, a first in the program's 10-year history.

Gregory M. Gilmore, a 30-year federal prosecutor, was sworn in as the 33rd U.S. Attorney for the Central District of Illinois in Springfield.

Richard Cunningham, 55, admitted to defrauding private lenders of $12.1 million using fabricated veterans housing documents and forged HUD vouchers.
The Justice Department will award nearly $300 million to two to four cities that propose comprehensive strategies to reduce violent crime.

Former FBI Special Agent Jeffrey Royer pleaded guilty to wire fraud in a forex scheme, agreeing to pay $576,818.83 in restitution to defrauded investors.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection says it has uncovered more than $1 billion in evaded duties under the Enforce and Protect Act, a first in the program's 10-year history.

San Diego Sector Border Patrol agents arrested four illegal immigrants after a panga-style vessel landed near Scripps Pier in La Jolla.

ICE Boston arrested Rocael Ordonez-Cruz, 23, an illegal immigrant from Guatemala charged with rape and other sex crimes in Arlington, Massachusetts.

ICE deported Agustin Morales-Renteria and Juan Becerra Ruiz, both 24, to Mexico where they face homicide charges after years in the U.S.

Temporary Protected Status for Syrians expired this week, raising concerns about religious minorities under Syria's post-Assad transitional government.

Federal officers found 366 packages of cocaine weighing 1,002 pounds hidden in a flatbed trailer's floorboards at the Calexico Port of Entry.

Daniel Hammond, 44, sentenced to 11 years for distributing methamphetamine and fentanyl for a drug network tied to the Aryan Family and Omerta prison gangs.

Erik Ventura-Castro, 24, of Hialeah, Fla., sentenced to 30 months for smuggling thousands of Cuban nationals using fraudulent visa waivers and fake asylum claims.
SEC alleges RAD Diversified REIT founders defrauded 5,500 investors of $152 million, misappropriating nearly $5 million for luxury goods and private jets.

Israeli cabinet greenlights deployment of up to 200 International Stabilization Force troops into Gaza as Hamas retains control of 40% of the territory.

Zelenskyy says Russian satellites surveilled four U.S.-linked air bases in the Gulf, with imagery passed to Iran for strike planning.

The trilateral U.S.-Israel-Lebanon framework signed June 26 conditions Israeli withdrawal on verified Hezbollah disarmament, but the group rejects the deal outright.

Saudi-led coalition struck Sanaa International Airport to prevent a Houthi delegation from flying to slain Iranian Supreme Leader Khamenei's funeral, triggering retaliatory missile fire.

Gunmen killed 30 Christians, including eight children, in Naridon village in Nigeria's Kaduna state as local leaders plead for international intervention.

A drone strike hit Arsema Monastery in Ethiopia's Amhara Region during worship, killing two nuns and six priests amid ongoing conflict.

India's Maharashtra state ordered a three-month audit of all church and Christian organization land holdings, alarming Christian communities facing rising pressure.

Iranian authorities are confiscating St. Peter's Evangelical Church in Tehran, evicting 20 Armenian and Assyrian families from the 10-acre compound.

Cleveland Clinic will pay $308,000 and commit $2 million for detransition care under a DOJ resolution ending sex-rejecting procedures on minors.

A federal jury convicted Hadi Matar, 28, of terrorism offenses for his 2022 stabbing of author Salman Rushdie at the Chautauqua Institution in New York.

CENTCOM and Saudi forces hit militia logistics sites in Iraq after over 30 IRGC-directed drone attacks in 72 hours killed PMF fighters.

Lebanese security forces discovered rifles, RPG rounds, detonators, and maps in a Beirut apartment after responding to a family dispute shooting.

German prosecutors say Abdul Rahman Ballout recorded an Islamic State pledge before driving a van into Berlin Pride crowds, killing one and injuring 29.

HR 1329 to establish a Smithsonian women's history museum failed 204-216 after a biological-women amendment split both parties.

A St. Joseph, Mo., man faces conspiracy to commit murder charges in an alleged plot targeting the UFC Freedom 250 event at the White House.

Armed attackers killed 22 Christians in Kawel and nine in Ungwan Magaji village within days, targeting homes, a hospital, and a pastor.

Angel Maria Herrera, 43, sentenced to 50 years for the 2005 murder of Maria Morfin in Lenexa, Kansas, after fleeing to El Salvador for nearly 20 years.

Javier Velasquez Antunes, a Mexican national illegally in the U.S., was sentenced to 48 months for dealing methamphetamine while possessing firearms in San Francisco.

Miguel Antonio Murillo-Ramos, a Mexican national with violent felony convictions and three prior deportations, was sentenced to 51 months in federal prison in Las Vegas.

Michel Manuel Garcia Rojas, a 39-year-old illegal immigrant from Nicaragua, was sentenced to 51 months for assaulting an HSI agent during a Laken Riley Act arrest.

Chinese authorities gave a Uyghur house church pastor until June 25 to pay a compliance deposit or face permanent closure and demolition by June 29.

CBP appoints Ray Provencio as Director of Field Operations and Andrew Douglas as Port Director at the El Paso Field Office.

A Dominican and a Guatemalan national, both previously deported, face federal reentry charges in Connecticut after arrests on drug, firearm, and arson offenses.

Federal prosecutors charge five in Capital Region Medicaid transportation fraud schemes as part of DOJ's 2026 National Health Care Fraud Takedown.

Matthew Lynn Windom, 55, of Albany, Oregon, sentenced to 120 months in federal prison for possessing child sexual abuse material after an international investigation.

CBP officers at Dulles Airport discovered child sexual abuse and bestiality material on a Maryland man's phone, leading to his arrest on Virginia felony charges.