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.
American cops are “force multipliers in counterterrorism,” says Fred Burton, one of the world’s foremost authorities on terrorists and terrorist organizations
Bulger’s attorney acknowledges that he was involved in illegal gambling and drugs but says Bulger paid law enforcement to protect him from prosecution
A relentless husband-and-wife team have been arrested for committing four armed robberies
Authorities are looking for information about the May 14 disappearance of 25-year-old Armando Torres III, his father, and his uncle
FBI released recordings of the suspect demanding two boys, and the driver refusing his requests
Undercover agents had given the suspect a bag believed to be bomb, and he dropped it in a trash can near Wrigley field
The federal officer was not seriously injured despite being run over by a man driving a truck who’d been spotted drinking
At a press conference Thursday in Moscow, Abdul-Baki Todashev told media pictures showed his son with 7 bullet wounds
He allegedly implicated himself in a triple slaying in connection with Tamerlan Tsarnaev; he lunged at a cop with a knife during questioning
The FBI said the agent acted on an imminent threat and opened fire when the suspect turned violent
Special Agents Christopher Lorek and Stephen Shaw were killed when they fell from a helicopter that was having trouble
Christopher Lorek, 41, and Stephen Shaw, 40 were killed off the coast of Virginia Beach; the cause is being investigated
Federal agents said they found bomb-making materials belonging to a paramedic who helped evacuate residents the night of the explosion
Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis told Congress he received no information about Russia’s warning of Tsarnaev
The vast majority of the reward will go to a couple who he tied up in their Big Bear cabin
Police believe lives were saved when they converged on a mobile home and found Molotov cocktails, pipe bombs, guns
Federal agents follow the widow of Tamerlan Tsarnaev in unmarked vehicles when she leaves her parents home
Obama told the press it wasn’t fair to say FBI ‘dropped the ball’ because the suspects could not have been arrested based on rumors
2 friends removed evidence from Tsarnaev’s room, and a third lied to investigators during questioning
40 years ago a woman killed a state trooper, then escaped prison and fled to Cuba
Technology played a big role in aiding the police operation that caught the Tsarnaev brothers
FBI agents have wrapped up a two-day search at a landfill near the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) made a similar move last year
A Watertown resident was shocked when he peered out his window to see the two suspected terrorists the country had been searching for
After interrogating Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, police discovered the brothers had no connection to Muslim terrorist groups
The agent climbs the fence only to have fellow agents open the gate and walk through seconds later
An affidavit does not say whether suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is thought to have used the cellphone as a detonator
The three-minute long video shows Tsarnaev hiding under a plastic cover in a boat in at a residence in Watertown
Her lawyer told feds she did not suspect her husband of anything, and that there was no reason for her to have suspected him
Two foreign nationals have been arrested on immigration violations in the town the surviving bombing suspect may have lived
