Michael Banks, current Chief of U.S. Border Patrol, makes the 83rd sexual predator on our ICE/CBP Sexual Predators list, with today's bombshell investigation exposing Banks's sex tourism travel to countries like Thailand and Colombia.
Michael Banks, USBP chief, posing with former DHS Secretary Kristi Noem in front of DHS, American, and Border Patrol flags
Michael Banks, the Chief of US Border Patrol who was appointed by Donald Trump in January 2025, has been credibly accused by multiple Border Patrol insiders of bragging about his frequent "sex tourism" travels to countries like Thailand and Colombia, preying on impoverished, vulnerable sex workers.
2024 photo of Arnaldo Echevarria in a black dress shirt at a conference
recent photo of Arnaldo Echevarria in a suit jacket, shirt and tie at a professional conference
Arnaldo Echevarria, 40, an ICE Deportation Officer from Somerset, NJ, was sentenced in Oct 2017 to 84 months in prison for shaking down undocumented refugees for bribes in the form of cash and sexual favors. He preyed on vulnerable women and demanded sex in return for falsifying immigration records.
Steven J Metz booking photo
Steven J Metz sex offender registry photo
Steven Joseph Metz, 41, a Customs and Border Protection supervisor from Hamburg, NY, was sentenced in January 2014 to five years in prison after admitting to possessing over 3,000 images and 70 videos of child sexual abuse material, some featuring children as young as 3 years old.
Edgar Fidel Garcia booking photo
Edgar Fidel Garcia, 36, a Border Patrol agent from Laredo, TX, was charged on January 4th, 2024 with sexual assault, a second degree felony. Garcia is accused of sexually assaulting an incapacitated woman at an after-party at his house, causing her to flee and immediately tell her friends.
David Arthur Redecki photo in court
David Arthur Redecki booking photo
David Arthur Redecki, 37, a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer and Boy Scout troop leader from Livonia, MI was sentenced in August 2017 to one year in prison for sexually assaulting a 12-year-old boy.
Ruben Ricardo Rosado-Milan booking photo, Lee County Sheriff's Office
Ruben Ricardo Rosado-Milan sex offender registry photo
Ruben Ricardo Rosado-Milan, 49, an ICE deportation officer from Fort Myers, FL, was sentenced in January 2022 to 31 days in jail and registration as a sex offender after pleading guilty to exposing himself to several high school students at Riverdale High School and masturbating.
Suzanne Barr official portrait
Suzanne Barr, Chief of Staff for ICE, resigned in September 2012 after she was accused by three different ICE employees of inappropriate sexual behavior. Barr disputed the allegations, but resigned (according to her letter) to spare the agency from distraction.
Paulo Morales, 47, a Customs and Border Protection Officer from Miami, FL, was sentenced in October 2012 to 33 months in prison after pleading guilty to groping 3 women who were in CBP custody at Miami International Airport, where he worked.
Joshua Jivan booking photo
Joshua Jivan, 42, a Supervisory Special Agent with ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) from Las Vegas, NV, was arrested on June 2, 2023 for luring a child for sexual acts. Jivan was busted as part of a law enforcement sting, believing he was meeting a 14-year-old girl in a hotel for sex.
Frank Figueroa is the 74th entry on our list of ICE and Customs and Border Protection sex pests and sex offenders.
Figueroa was ICE's Special Agent in Charge in Central and North Florida. After sentencing, ICE allowed Figueroa to apply sick leave and vacation to reach retirement with full pension.
Frank Figueroa ICE portrait
Frank Figueroa, 49, the ICE Special Agent in Charge in Central Florida, pleaded no contest in 2006 to indecent exposure after exposing his genitals and masturbating while staring at a 16-year-old girl in an Orlando mall food court. Figueroa avoided a formal conviction and retired with full pension.
Daniel E. Perez booking photo
Daniel E. Perez, 33, a Customs & Border Protection (CBP) officer from Rio Rico, AZ, was arrested on multiple charges including luring a minor for sexual exploitation after communicating with an undercover officer who he believed to be an underage girl and arranging to meet her for sex.
Andrew John Pleviak booking photo, 2018
Andrew John Pleviak booking photo, 9/4/19, after a separate arrest for impersonating an ICE supervisor
Andrew John Pleviak, an ICE deportation officer from Wichita, KS, was charged with federal cyber crimes in Jan 2018 after a local news anchor was forced to seek legal protection when Pleviak, who volunteered to be a confidential law enforcement source, began stalking her and sending sexual messages.
Alfredo Maysonet-Galarza, 57 a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agent from Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, was sentenced in August 2019 to 108 months in prison for distributing and possessing child sexual abuse material.
Orlando Gomez booking photo
Orlando Gomez, 43, a Border Patrol Agent from Las Cruces, NM, was sentenced in June 2017 to 29 months in prison for multiple counts of child sexual abuse. Court documents state that Gomez coerced the 15-year-old girl into having sex with him by threatening to kill himself if she didn't.
Daniel Alfredo Spear courtroom photo
Daniel Alfredo Spear sex offender registry photo
Daniel Alfredo Spear, 46, a Border Patrol agent from El Cajon, CA, was sentenced in January 2017 to two years in prison after being convicted of giving his daughter's teenage friend cocaine, then performing sex acts on the minor and taking photos of her in lingerie.
There are many more. We're having to take breaks because the material is highly distressing.
Joseph W. Giuliano in his border patrol uniform
Another photo of Joseph Giuliano in his Border Patrol uniform
Joseph W. Giuliano, 55, of Bellingham, WA, the Deputy Chief Patrol Agent for Border Patrol's Blaine Sector, was sentenced in June 2009 to 4 years for raping a 14-year-old child multiple times. Giuliano, as second in command, was once described as "the face of the Border Patrol in the Northwest".
Tony Alan Barker booking photo
Tony Alan Barker sex offender registry photo
Tony Alan Barker, 59, a retired U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer from Sahuarita, AZ, was sentenced in August 2010 to six years in federal prison for possessing hundreds of child sexual abuse images.
Michael J. McGowan booking photo
Michael J. McGowan booking photo alternate
On Jan 6, 2014, Michael J. McGowan, a former Federal Air Marshal and Border Patrol Agent, was sentenced to 90 years’ in prison for three counts of Sexual Exploitation of Children. McGowan repeatedly sexually abused three boys over the course of multiple years and photographed the abuse.
Nicholas Ryan Bolden sex offender registry photo
Nicholas Ryan Bolden sex offender registry photo
Nicholas Ryan Bolden, 40, a Border Patrol agent from Ocean Springs, MS, was sentenced on July 31, 2013 to six and a half years in federal prison for accessing child sexual abuse materials from a government computer.
Lawson Hardrick, Jr., 64, of Calexico, CA, a supervisory special agent with U.S. Customs and Border Protection, was sentenced in April 2013 to 10 years in federal prison for downloading and sharing child sexual abuse material. Hardrick was the assistant director of the Calexico port of entry.
Brian Michael Dick at his sentencing in court
Brian Michael Dick sex offender registry photo
Brian Michael Dick, 36, a Border Patrol agent from Benson, AZ, was sentenced in January 2010 to just over five years in prison after being convicted of raping a fellow agent. At Dick's sentencing, his victim spoke about how his friends in the department made threatening and harassing calls to her.
The list of ICE and Customs and Border Protection sex offenders and sex pests is now up to 62.
Jay Bernard Gillilland arrest photo
Jay Bernard Gillilland prison booking photo
Jay Bernard Gillilland, a Customs and Border Protection agent from Nogales, AZ, was sentenced in 2007 to 6,242 years in state prison after being convicted on nearly 300 charges of child sexual abuse. He also received a 10-year federal sentence for cocaine trafficking and CSAM possession.
Dennis Michael Johnson sex offender registry photo
More recent sex offender registry photo for Dennis Michael Johnson
Dennis Michael Johnson, now 59, a Border Patrol Agent from Sierra Vista, AZ, was sentenced in April 2002 to seven years in prison after he kidnapped, handcuffed, threatened and raped a 21-year-old woman from El Salvador who had been detained crossing the border near Tombstone, AZ on Sep. 28, 2000.
Fernando Saucedo III, a CBP officer from Presidio, TX, was named in two lawsuits filed in 2017 by the ACLU on behalf of two teenage sisters, ages 17 and 19, who alleged Saucedo removed them from their cell to a closet area where he sexually assaulted them. CBP settled the lawsuit for $125,000.
Austin police have issued an arrest warrant for a Fort Worth-based U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent accused of sexually assaulting an Austin woman last year.
The warrant, issued Jan. 29, 2026, charges Melvin Davis with second-degree felony sexual assault.
Anthony Victor Mangione booking photo
Anthony Victor Mangione sex offender registry photo
Anthony Mangione, 51, the head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in South Florida, was convicted on July 20, 2012 for transporting child sexual abuse material. He was sentenced to 70 months in prison and must register as a sex offender for life.