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65 MEXICANS DEPORTED BY ICE DETENTION AND REMOVAL 11 convicted predators among the deported MIAMI - Eleven convicted predators were among 65 illegal aliens deported Wednesday to Mexico by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE's) Office of Detention and Removal. Among the deported was 31-year-old Paulino Juarez-Cortez, a man sentenced to 6 years and 9 months in prison following a July 10, 1997 sexual conviction. He was convicted of sexual battery against a child under 12 years of age and for lewd and lascivious acts against a child under 16 years of age. Juarez-Cortez was found ineligible for any form...

The Pentagon's internal watchdog has begun investigating two additional contracts handled by convicted former Air Force official Darleen Druyun and could add three more deals to its growing list of possibly tainted procurements, the Pentagon said on Monday. Druyun is serving a nine-month prison term for violating federal conflict-of-interest laws by negotiating a $250,000-a-year job with Boeing Co. while still overseeing its business with the Air Force. She also admitted steering contracts to Boeing as far back as 2000. "In the course of our review, in an effort to be as thorough as possible, we decided to take a look...

Oklahoma City - Late Tuesday night, Thomas E. Deering waited in a prison cell. His escape from the maximum-security Waupun Correctional Institution had taken him all the way to Los Angeles. Now, three months later, it was coming full circle. Deering, 28, was in transit. He'd already flown on the plane full of prisoners known as "Con Air" from Los Angeles to Oklahoma City. He was scheduled to depart soon on a similar flight to Chicago. From there, a series of vans would shuttle him back to Wisconsin. Federal officials say Deering didn't sleep on his metal-frame bed at the...