Federal law enforcement
The Federal Law Enforcement topic area addresses all crime-fighting agencies at the national and federal level. This section will provide you with the latest news, information and developments across the country and in Washington.
To say that this has been a difficult year is an understatement of impossible proportion
How a love-struck FBI agent’s investigation spun out of wildly out of control and resulted in a minor national security crisis
She’s determined to push measures that would expand background checks
Homeland Security Department missed clear warning signs of a disgruntled federal agent’s descent toward violence
In excerpts of Obama’s prepared remarks for IACP 2015, the president defends police officers
The bill would punish jurisdictions that prohibit the collection of immigration information or don’t cooperate
Officer has been charged with attempting to make methamphetamine
Several agencies including the FBI, ATF and New Mexico State Police are assisting with the investigation
The first Hispanic to run the FBI’s largest field office almost never got there
Gun belonged to a federal agent — the latest twist in a case that has become a flashpoint in the country’s debate over immigration
Of 6 women missing, 4 have been found dead leaving a small town in fear and cops on the hunt for answers
Cliven Bundy said Saturday that contract researchers for the federal Bureau of Land Management had no business being on rangeland, but he denied he or his supporters fired gunshots
Both men are charged with conspiring with Usaama Rahim, who was killed last week by terror investigators who had him under surveillance
26-year-old Usaama Rahim plotted to kill police officers, according to officials
Police and the FBI refused to comment on the possibility of a serial shooter
China-based hackers are suspected once again of breaking into U.S. government computer networks
Blogger organized controversial Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest in Texas
Originally planned to behead an unidentified victim before changing his mind and saying he was going to “go after” the “boys in blue”
Usaama Rahim was shot Tuesday after police say he lunged at them with a knife when they approached him to question him
Lunged with a knife at a city police officer and an FBI agent
Agent was hit in the leg and his wound was not life-threatening
U.S. marshals and police tracked down and arrested a dangerous ex-convict and five others, bringing a sudden and safe ending to a multistate manhunt
Chief said no one at command post set up to monitor the event was aware that the FBI had sent a memo about Elton Simpson hours before the May 3 shooting
FBI spokeswoman said the multi-agency task force was serving the warrant for a suspected bank robber dubbed the “Longhorn Bandit”
Federal prosecutors say the 51-year-old Florida native was running the largest illicit drug operation in the history of east Tennessee: a string of pill mills that raked in $17.5 million in four years
Federal investigators learned several hours before cartoon contest that a man under investigation for extremist activities might show up
Police killed two gunmen who opened fire on a security officer outside the Curtis Culwell Center in Texas on Sunday night
Officer Jeremy Brown, 29, was fatally shot leaving his home in uniform on his way to work
Is seen as unlikely to depart in radical ways from Eric Holder’s priorities
Woman on the sidewalk appears to be filming officers with her cellphone when a deputy U.S. Marshal approaches her
Six are the latest Westerners accused of traveling or attempting to travel to Syria to join the group
A deputy marshal was killed in Louisiana while carrying out the roundup — the first on-duty death of a marshal in four years