Following an investigation by ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) New York’s Cultural Property, Arts and Antiquities (CPAA) unit with assistance from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Ashraf Omar Eldarir, a U.S. citizen, is being charged with smuggling … A former Arizona official pleaded guilty Wednesday to a human smuggling charge for what prosecutors called his role in running an illegal adoption scheme in three states involving women from the Marshall Islands. … A man suspected to be from Guatemala is in Weld County Jail last week after a traffic stop led to eight charges of human smuggling against him.Gonzalo Martin-Rodas, 36, has been charged with eight felony counts after his arrest on Interstate 76. SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A former Arizona politician pleaded guilty in Utah on Friday to human smuggling and other charges in an illegal adoption … John Hahn said a trooper stopped Martin-Rodas on… Petersen pleaded guilty to one count of Conspiracy to Smuggle Illegal Aliens for Private Financial Gain at a Wednesday's (Junee 24) plea hearing. SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A former Arizona politician pleaded guilty in Utah on Friday to human smuggling and other charges in an illegal adoption …

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. • A former Arizona official pleaded guilty Wednesday to a human smuggling charge for what prosecutors called his role in running an illegal adoption scheme in three states involving women from the Marshall Islands.

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Paul Petersen pleaded guilty in federal court in Arkansas to conspiracy to commit human smuggling, the third guilty plea he's entered for the scheme.