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.
Some estimates show that Congress codifies more than 50 new criminal offenses a year — who do you figure is going to most often hear about that from our society’s malcontents and miscreants?
In the post 9/11 world, we now know if active shooters or terrorists take over a hotel, public event, or school, they probably have no interest in escape
The connection between criminal activity — whether one might consider it ‘organized’ or not — and terrorist organizations has history that continues to this very day
Nabbing the bad guys was only part of the challenge facing federal officials who shut down an illegal marijuana garden growing on U.S. rangeland
The arrest and indictments were the culmination of a three-year investigation
Pittsburgh has become the arsenal of cybersecurity because it is home to CMU’s Software Engineering Institute with its 260-person CERT cyberteam
Court will consider the free speech rights of people who use violent or threatening language on Facebook and other electronic media where the speaker’s intent is not always clear
Federal grand jury has indicted a Calif. social media expert who was the subject of an FBI manhunt on bomb and gun charges
The incident happened Wednesday as the helicopter was patrolling as part of the Georgia Governor’s Marijuana Eradication Task Force
Officials say the panel will include national security lawyers from the Justice Department and representatives from the FBI, among other agencies
Search of a social media expert’s apartment turned up ball bearings, screws and components needed to make a homemade bomb designed to kill or maim
A San Francisco social media maven and former political consultant who was wanted on suspicion of possessing explosives has been taken into custody after a three-day manhunt
Khairullozhon Matanov, 23, of Quincy, was arrested for destroying, altering and falsifying records in a federal investigation
Man carefully balanced a rifle on the roof of his car and fired two shots, striking the officer in the head before he got out of his patrol car
New Justice Department directive that reverses long-standing policy
FBI agent was arrested over ammunition found in his luggage
It’s a rare case — nearly all of the more than 900 officer killings during the last two decades have been solved, according to the FBI
The number of possible victims of a teacher suspected of drugging and molesting boys during a four-decade career around the world has risen sharply
Mahmood said police told the judge during a brief hearing they needed more time to file formal charges
Federal agents are looking into the conduct of people who reportedly pointed guns at officers during a standoff at Bundy’s ranch April 12
Pakistan released an FBI agent on nearly $10,000 bail Thursday after three days in custody
An FBI agent has been detained in Pakistan after he was found to be in possession of ammunition while trying to board a domestic flight
Family members and other supporters took a Nevada rancher’s grazing rights fight against the U.S. government to the sheriff in Las Vegas on Friday
Walter R. Walsh, who captured gangsters as an FBI agent in the 30s and went on to train Marine Corps snipers and become the longest-lived Olympian, has died
The standoff between the Bureau of Land Management and rancher Cliven Bundy has ended (for now) but should give local law enforcers something to consider as a possibility in their own jurisdiction
50 law enforcement officers raided the suspect’s parents’ mobile home last May
Self-described “citizen soldiers” arrived venting a smoldering anger and wielding AR-15 and AK-47 rifles
The Obama administration is encouraging many nonviolent federal prisoners to apply for early release — and expecting thousands to take up the offer
A corrections officer taken hostage by three inmates at an Ohio county jail has been released unharmed
An elaborate, seven-year sting operation targeted a San Francisco Chinatown association thought to be a front for a notorious organized crime syndicate
The federal agency is condemning threats of violence against officers in anti-police fliers that have surfaced in the city
The oil boom in the Bakken shale fields has touched off an explosion of growth and wealth on this remote wind-swept prairie. But it has also brought a dark side
A day after blinking in a showdown on the range, federal land managers pledged to pursue efforts to resolve a conflict with a rancher who has refused to pay grazing fees for 20 years
