HSI INVESTIGATION LEADS TO CHARGES OF CHILD SEXUAL EXPLOITATION AGAINST ILLEGAL ALIEN FROM MEXICO

NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 10 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security issued the following news release:

WASHINGTON -The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released the following statement after an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) resulted in charges ofchild sexual exploitationand afirearms offense against a criminal illegal alien from Mexico.

TheU.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of North Carolinaannounced in July that Francisco Rosales Ortiz, a criminal illegal alien from Mexico, was indicted by a federal grand jury on10 COUNTS of production of child sexual abuse material (CSAM), possession and access with intent to view CSAM,andunlawful pos...