Man Admits ICE Lawyer Doxxing Charge

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A Santa Monica man’s guilty plea for doxxing and calling for the “swatting” of a federal immigration lawyer exposes how radical anti-enforcement extremism is turning dangerously violent against those who uphold America’s borders.

Story Snapshot

A 68-year-old Santa Monica man pleaded guilty to a federal charge after doxxing a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) attorney and urging others to “swat” her at home.
Federal prosecutors say he posted the lawyer’s home address online and shared instructions for swatting, escalating a long-running online harassment campaign.^[1]^[2]
The case highlights growing threats to law-enforcement officers who enforce immigration law, even as many on the left demonize immigration enforcement.^[1]^[2]
Justice Department officials under President Trump’s second term are signaling that attacks on frontline federal employees will be treated as serious crimes, not “online activism.”^[2]

Federal Immigration Lawyer Targeted at Home by Online Harassment Campaign

Federal court records and Justice Department statements say Santa Monica resident Gregory John Curcio, in his late sixties, spent more than a year harassing a United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement attorney and her family online.^[1]^[2]^[3] Prosecutors describe a campaign beginning by at least January 2024, during which Curcio allegedly made false accusations and repeatedly attacked the lawyer and her relatives on social media platforms.^[1]^[2] The victim told authorities he had previously lived in her mother’s apartment building, but she had never personally met him.^[2]

According to a federal criminal complaint and subsequent plea documents, Curcio’s conduct went far beyond name-calling or criticism of immigration policy.^[2] Prosecutors say he focused personally on the attorney, weaponizing the internet to drag a public servant’s work into her private life.^[1]^[2] This pattern reflects an increasingly common tactic in heated political fights, where instead of debating border enforcement or immigration law, activists try to intimidate individual officers, attorneys, and agents through harassment, threats, and exposure of their home information.^[1]^[2]

Doxxing, Swatting, and the Federal Law Used to Protect Officials

The United States Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California explains that Curcio pleaded guilty to one count of violating a federal law designed to protect individuals performing certain official duties. That law bars publishing specific personal information about covered federal employees—such as a home address or phone number—with the intent to threaten, intimidate, or incite harm.^[2] Prosecutors say doxxing, defined as maliciously posting private identifying information online, is treated as a serious crime when it endangers targeted officials.^[2]

In February 2025, Curcio allegedly posted to Facebook identifying the victim as an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent, listing her home address, and explicitly directing others to “swat” her there.^[1]^[2] Federal filings say he then used another social media account to share the same home address along with step-by-step “instructions” on how to carry out a swatting attempt.^[1]^[2] Swatting involves making a fake emergency call to trigger an armed law enforcement response at someone’s home, a tactic that has gotten innocent people killed in prior incidents nationwide.^[1]^[2] Justice Department officials emphasize that such conduct moves squarely into criminal territory, regardless of any political justification a perpetrator might claim.^[2]

Guilty Plea Underscores New Consequences for Anti-ICE Extremism

Press releases from the United States Department of Justice state that Curcio has now pleaded guilty in Los Angeles federal court to the charge protecting officials performing their duties. A plea means he has accepted legal responsibility for at least one federal offense, narrowing any dispute to sentencing and the precise facts agreed to in the record. Prosecutors note that the offense carries a statutory maximum of five years in federal prison, signaling that this is not treated as a minor speech issue.^[2]

Justice Department officials have been blunt about the stakes, warning that doxxing federal employees is “not a harmless crime” and stressing that anyone who targets frontline officers like Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel will face serious consequences.^[2] For conservatives who value law and order, this case illustrates the real-world danger when activists, inflamed by years of rhetoric portraying immigration enforcement as “evil,” decide to go after individual patriots doing their jobs. The Trump administration’s Justice Department response aligns with the core principle that political disagreements must never justify threats against those who uphold the nation’s laws.^[2]