Tucson, Ariz. – One U.S. Border Patrol agent was killed and another wounded after a shooting early this morning near Naco, Arizona. Border Patrol Agent Nicholas Ivie, 30, was killed after he and two other agents responded to a sensor hit near mile-marker 352 on Highway 80. One other Border Patrol agent sustained non-life threatening wounds and was airlifted to a local hospital. He is reported in stable condition at this time.

AMERICAN CANYON, Calif. – Joseph M. Riehl, Special Agent in Charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), San Francisco Field Division, Chief Joseph Kriens, and Chief Jean Donaldson American Canyon Police Department, announced today the arrests of Lafonso Luke Brown, Rakeem Marcelles Brown, Marcelis Fitzgerald Lee, and Rashad Rakeem Brown. 

Denver – The ATF led Greeley RAGE Task Force (Regional Anti-Gang Enforcement), including the Greeley Police Department and the FBI, have investigated, prosecuted, and now have had sentenced 30 defendants for gun and drug crimes in Greeley, U.S. Attorney John Walsh, Denver ATF Special Agent in Charge Andrew Traver, and Greeley Police Chief Jerry Garner announced. The 30 Greeley area criminals were sentenced to a combined 142 years in federal prison (over 1,620 months). The sentences were pronounced by U.S. District Court Judge Philip A. Brimmer. 

ALBUQUERQUE
This morning a U.S. District Judge sentenced Jeremiah Jackson, 34, of Albuquerque, New Mexico, to two terms of life imprisonment, to be served concurrently, for killing two women while attempting to avoid apprehension in the aftermath of a bank robbery, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth J. Gonzales and Carol K.O. Lee, Special Agent in Charge of the Albuquerque Division of the FBI. 

ANCHORAGE—U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that Coleman L. Barney from North Pole, Alaska, was sentenced in federal court in Anchorage to five years in prison for conspiracy to possess grenades and silencers and to five years in prison for possession of an unregistered destructive device, with the two sentences to run concurrently. 

NEWARK: Two men who shot a police officer in the course of robbing seven stores from March 2010 through May 2010 were sentenced to lengthy prison terms today, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced. 

PROVIDENCE:  Anthony L. Dinunzio, 53, of East Boston, Massachusetts, the alleged leader of the New England organized crime family of La Cosa Nostra (NELCN), was ordered detained today following his arraignment in U.S. District Court in Providence, Rhode Island, on racketeering and extortion charges. A sealed indictment returned on Tuesday, April 24, 2012 and unsealed today alleges, among other things, that Dinunzio and other leaders, members, and associates of the NELCN extorted protection payments from adult entertainment businesses in Rhode Island. 

Salton City, Calif. – Two individuals were arrested this weekend with warrants. One individual had a $10 million warrant for murder and the second individual had a warrant issued by Interpol for Italian law enforcement authorities.

Ryan Walker Grant Operated Sexually Oriented Business in Arlington, Texas 
FORT WORTH, TX   Ryan Walker Grant, 34, of Kennedale, Texas, pleaded guilty today to one count of murder-for-hire, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas. He faces a maximum statutory sentence of 10 years in federal prison, a $250,000 fine and a three-year term of supervised release. Sentencing is set for December 28, 2012. Grant has been in custody since his arrest on April 2012.

Del Rio, Texas – A Ciudad Acuña man is in custody after attempting to smuggle assault rifles out of the United States.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the Del Rio Port of Entry selected a 2004 Chevrolet pickup truck for inspection as the vehicle was leaving the United States, bound for Mexico. During initial inspection, CBP officers found two rifle magazines in the driver’s pockets.