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.
Bulger, the former leader of Boston’s notorious Winter Hill Gang, is awaiting trial on a racketeering indictment that charges him with participating in 19 murders
Essential or not, they would be subject to a furlough just like everyone else
Part one of a four-part series
A well where bodies were thought to be turned up empty, and the killer refuses to talk
the investigation involves the Office of the Inspector General, the Department of Justice, the FBI and the Texas attorney general’s Medicaid fraud unit
The mayor ordered a review of the police bureau after learning the chief partnered with 4 subordinates to form a private security firm
He felt more comfortable in prison and wanted to spend his final years there
U.S. investigators were invited by Turkish authorities to assist as they try to find out what happened to Sarai Sierra
An earlier assessment of the suspect has given ammunition to both prosecution and defense attorneys in an Oregon terrorism trial
No government-wide requirements exist for the checking of references for job applicants as a part of the federal government’s hiring process
She claims he went to police multiple times to report people he believed were serious about cannibalism
Authorities say the case involves the mob, and suspected are expected to be charged Wednesday
Spokesman said FBI agents were involved in a live fire tactical training exercise when the accident occurred
The armed suspect ordered the officer to lie on the ground and unload the ammunition from his Glock 31 service weapon
In his 4 years at the helm, he spearheaded investigations that accused banks of misleading investors about risky mortgage securities
At the trial that begins Thursday, the suspect’s attorneys will attempt to present him as impressionable teenager lured by undercover agents with the FBI
In each case, authorities say the man gained entry to the bank after normal business hours through a hole cut in the roof
To say that this has been a difficult year is an understatement of impossible proportion
“Congress must reinstate and toughen the ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines”
A camera near the Metropolitan Correctional Center shows the inmates getting into a cab hours before anyone knew they were gone
3 officers appeared in court on charges alleging that they and another officer accepted thousands of dollars in bribes to guard shipments of cocaine
Man suspect of three NY murders of shopkeepers claims he was ordered to by Palestinian CIA
A federal appeals court struck down a ban on carrying concealed weapons in the only state where it had remained entirely illegal
The civil-rights case represents a coda of sorts to one of the more divisive cases involving city police
The probes reached into 79 U.S. cities and points in Central America, Europe, Mexico and South America
A Senate bill protecting privacy of electronic communication will still allow LE to access if they believe a crime has been committed
Crime described as a $1.4 million international fraud operation stretching from Kentucky to Europe and involving the sale of non-existent cars
The commemoration Nov. 22, 2013, will take place in Dealey Plaza, where Kennedy’s motorcade through downtown Dallas was passing as shots rang out.
