What court cases and convictions involving ICE employees have been reported in local news since 2015?

1. The high‑profile federal prosecution that resulted in prison time

One clear criminal conviction of an ICE employee reported in local and federal outlets was the prosecution and 12‑year sentence of former deportation officer Andrew Golobic, who admitted to federal crimes for depriving the civil rights of a woman he supervised in ICE’s Alternatives to Detention program; the Department of Justice says FBI and DHS‑OIG investigated the matter and federal prosecutors handled the case ^[1].

2. State and local reporting of abuse convictions and arrests in Ohio

Ohio local reporting highlighted at least one ICE officer convicted this year of abusing women and another ICE officer arrested on similar charges, a cluster of allegations local advocates say shows the agency “fails to police its own ranks,” according to the Ohio Capital Journal ^[2].

3. Civil rulings and court orders have generated more headlines than criminal trials

Much of the local news coverage since 2015 has centered on judges curbing ICE tactics—federal judges have found ICE engaged in racial profiling in some contexts and ordered limits on warrantless arrests—and those civil and constitutional rulings have driven sustained reporting even where criminal charges against individual agents did not follow ^{[4] [3]}.

4. Data‑driven local stories show ICE presence and questioned practices in courthouses and communities

Local outlets using federal data documented frequent ICE activity at courthouses—GBH reported ICE agents were present at Boston’s Moakley Federal Courthouse 147 times over part of a year and detained 110 immigrants, some of whom had not been convicted of crimes—stories that raise questions about practices but do not equate to prosecutions of employees ^[5]. Other reporting and research likewise point out that many people ICE arrests have no convictions, a fact driving local scrutiny though not criminal cases against agents themselves ^{[6] [7]}.

5. Legal debate: agents can be prosecuted in principle, but practical hurdles loom

Legal commentary and advocacy groups note state and local prosecutors can, in principle, charge federal officers for crimes—including serious ones—but practical obstacles exist: federal‑state tensions over evidence sharing, doctrines like supremacy and qualified immunity, and a narrowing of civil remedies by recent Supreme Court decisions make such prosecutions and civil suits difficult, a point discussed in legal analyses and advocacy reports ^{[8] [9] [10]}.

6. What local reporting shows about patterns versus isolated criminal accountability

Across the sources, local news and watchdog reporting present a pattern: extensive coverage of ICE enforcement actions, civil litigation and court orders, and occasional criminal prosecutions of individual employees (as in the Golobic case and the Ohio abuse convictions), but not a broad, consistent trend of convictions of ICE staff nationally since 2015; the available local reporting emphasizes systemic questions and civil remedies as much as it does discrete criminal accountability ^{[1] [2] [3] [5]}.

7. How to read the sources and what remains unknown

The Department of Justice press release provides a definitive account of one federal conviction and sentence ^[1], local journalism documents other criminal allegations and at least one conviction in Ohio ^[2], and a range of legal and investigative pieces document courtroom limits on ICE behavior and the legal difficulty of charging federal officers ^{[3] [8] [9]}; beyond these items the reviewed reporting does not provide a comprehensive national list of every court case or conviction of ICE employees since 2015, and additional local or DOJ records would be needed for a full catalog ^{[1] [2]}.