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Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) is a division of the United States Department of Homeland Security that is responsible for investigating a wide range of criminal activities. HSI has jurisdiction over more than 400 federal laws and focuses on transnational crimes that pose a threat to national security, public safety, and the economy. This includes crimes such as human trafficking, drug smuggling, money laundering, cybercrime, and terrorism. HSI has agents located in more than 200 cities around the world, and works closely with other law enforcement agencies to investigate and prosecute crimes.
1. Introduction The Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) was introduced in 2000, defining sex and labor trafficking and creating criminal statutes to facilitate investigations, prosecutions, and provide victim services in the United States [1]. Despite the TVPA, most local law enforcement agencies required years to begin investigating street level prostitution and residential brothels as potential…
BOSTON – The owner of Stash’s Pizza was arrested this morning on forced labor charges for allegedly employing a victim who lacked immigration status and forcing him to work for years while threatening him with deportation and subjecting him to repeated verbal and physical abuse. Stavros Papantoniadis, a/k/a “Steve Papantoniadis,” 47, of Westwood, was…
BOSTON (WWLP) – The owner of a Boston pizzeria chain was arrested Thursday morning for allegedly forcing an employee that lacked immigration status to work, threatening him with deportation as well as verbal and physical abuse. Stavros Papantoniadis, 47, of Westwood, owner of Stash’s Pizza, has been charged with one count of forced labor. He…
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Homeland Security joined the U.S. Department of Justice yesterday to announce the first ever extraditions from Guatemala to the United States on charges of human smuggling resulting in death, and the first Guatemalan human smuggling extraditions to the United States of any kind in nearly five years. This announcement…
Earlier today, in federal court in Central Islip, a 15-count indictment was unsealed charging David M. Amin (D. Amin) and Bryce K. Amin (B. Amin), who are brothers, with sex trafficking by force, interstate prostitution, and distribution and possession with intent to distribute controlled substances, including fentanyl, heroin, cocaine and cocaine base. As alleged in…
Throughout the country, venal and heartless employers are robbing migrant children of their most important quality — their youth. From Minnesota to Florida, from Michigan to Alabama, the United States is trapped in a horrific time warp, with conditions that evoke a Dickensian London where kids were viewed as fodder for the labor market. Spurred…
HOUSTON — A Houston man pleaded guilty to several sex trafficking crimes and possession of child pornography Feb. 27 following a Human Trafficking Rescue Alliance investigation conducted by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Houston, the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission and the Houston Police Department. A judge in the Southern District of Texas convicted Edgar Botello, 30,…
HOUSTON – A 30-year-old man who resided in Houston has pleaded guilty to several sex trafficking crimes and possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Alamdar S. Hamdani. Edgar Botello admitted to sex trafficking with force, fraud or coercion and conspiracy to do so as well as possession of child pornography. “Sex traffickers prey on…
Event designed to prepare future nurses and health care workers and share information with the community According to national statistics on domestic violence, one in seven women and one in 25 men have been injured by an intimate partner. On a typical day, more than 20,000 phone calls are placed to domestic violence hotlines nationwide….
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — One of three people arrested as part of a human trafficking investigation in Hampton Roads pleaded guilty Tuesday. Police announced that from January to May last year, the Virginia Beach Police Department’s Special Investigations Bureau – Vice Unit and U.S. Homeland Security Investigations conducted anti-human trafficking operations. After an extensive investigation,…
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