Julian Zapata Espinoza, a cell commander of the brutal Los Zetas drug cartel, pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court in the District in the killing of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Agent Jaime Zapata and the attempted murder of his partner, ICE Agent Victor Avila, during a February 2011 ...

Man arrested in rape of 9-year-old in Baltimore BALTIMORE (AP) — Authorities say an Ecuadorian national in the U.S. illegally has been charged with raping a 9-year-old girl in Baltimore. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials say 31-year-old Henry Estrella-Cordova was arrested Wednesday near a bus terminal in Silver Spring. He has been charged with second-degree rape, assault and other ...

NEW YORK — U.S. authorities in New York have returned a 70-million-year-old nearly complete Tyrannosaurus skeleton to the Mongolian government.Authorities say the skeleton was looted from the Gobi Desert. It was seized by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in New York.A Gainesville, Fla., fossils dealer pleaded guilty to smuggling charges in a cooperation deal last December.

NEW YORK — U.S. authorities in New York plan to repatriate a 70-million-year-old nearly complete Tyrannosaurus skeleton to the Mongolian government.Authorities say the skeleton was looted from the Gobi Desert and illegally smuggled into the U.S. It was seized by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in New York.Mongolian officials plan to join ICE Director John Morton and U.S. Attorney Preet ...

A federal judge in Texas is expected to hear final arguments this week in a lawsuit brought by rank-and-file U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents for an injunction to block President Obama's deferred-deportation initiative for illegal immigrants. U.S. District Judge Reed O'Connor, who questioned the deportation order in a preliminary ...