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    Agent from Rio Rico takes guilty pleas

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    Posted: Tuesday, February 7, 2012 8:16 am

    A federal agent from Rio Rico has pleaded guilty to 21 criminal counts in a case in which she was accused of abusing her position to pass sensitive information to drug traffickers.

    Jovana Deas, 33, a former special agent with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations (ICE HSI), entered the guilty pleas at Feb. 1 hearing at U.S. District Court, the U.S. Attorney's Office announced on Monday.

    The prosecutor's office said some of the sensitive information Deas unlawfully accessed was later discovered on the laptop her former brother-in-law in Brazil. The man is allegedly associated with a Mexican drug trafficking organization that has ties to drug traffickers in Brazil.

    Prosecutors said Deas further admitted she illegally accessed, stole, and transferred sensitive U.S. government documents to unauthorized individuals, and that she obstructed Homeland Security Investigations.

    Deas' guilty plea included a total of seven felony violations, each punishable by up to five years in prison, and fourteen misdemeanors, each punishable by up to one year in prison. She is scheduled to be sentenced on April 11.

    Deas began her federal law enforcement career in 2003 as a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer assigned to Nogales. In 2008, she became an ICE HSI special agent assigned to the agency's Nogales office.

    The indictment to which Deas pleaded guilty also charges her sister, 40-year-old Dana Maria Samaniego Montes, 40, of Agua Prieta, Sonora with violations of federal law. Samaniego Montes, a former Mexican law enforcement official with alleged ties to drug trafficking organizations, is a fugitive believed to be residing in Mexico.

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    I.C.E. News Release

    February 7, 2012
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    HSI Nogales special agent pleads guilty to 21 corruption counts

    TUCSON, Ariz. – A special agent assigned to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) office in Nogales, Ariz., has pleaded guilty to all 21 counts of a federal indictment charging her with obstruction and other corruption violations.

    Jovana Samaniego Deas, 33, of Rio Rico, Ariz., faces up to 49 years in prison after entering a guilty plea to seven felony and 14 misdemeanor charges in federal court Feb. 1. She was arrested by federal authorities in June.

    At the hearing, Deas admitted that she illegally accessed, stole and transferred sensitive U.S. government documents to unauthorized individuals and obstructed HSI investigations. She admitted to abusing her position as a special agent to illegally obtain and disseminate government documents classified as "For Official Use Only." Some of the sensitive information Deas accessed was later discovered by Brazilian law enforcement on the laptop computer of her former brother-in-law, who has ties to drug trafficking organizations in Mexico and Brazil.

    The indictment also charges her sister, Dana Maria Samaniego Montes, 40, of Agua Prieta, Mexico, with federal violations. Montes is a fugitive believed to be residing in Mexico. She is a former Mexican law enforcement official with alleged ties to drug trafficking organizations.

    Deas entered federal service in June 2003 as a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer assigned to the Nogales port of entry. In 2008, she became an HSI special agent.

    Deas is scheduled to be sentenced April 11 in U.S. District Court.

    The federal corruption investigation was conducted by Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and ICE Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) agents assigned to the FBI's Southern Arizona Corruption Task Force (SACTF). SACTF investigators were assisted by special agents from HSI, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the State Department's Consular Integrity Division and the Brazilian Federal Police.

    U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is the largest investigative arm of the Department of Homeland Security.

    ICE is a 21st century law enforcement agency with broad responsibilities for a number of key homeland security priorities. For more information, visit U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. To report suspicious activity, call 1-866-347-2423 or complete our tip form.

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