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.
Attorney general and Justice Department defend FBI in incident
Police are seeing a fifth consecutive year of declines in violent crimes reported
Attorney says the suspect took active and affirmative steps that brought him to the brink of “kidnapping a woman, cooking her and actually eating her”
The government considers banning the capture, playback and processing of images, sounds or data of security while ‘in the exercise of their functions’
Early yesterday a self-professed al Qaeda associate from Bangladesh tried to explode what he thought was a 1,000-pound bomb at the Federal Reserve Bank
A former Pa. state trooper rose through the ranks of the FBI while developing an expertise in counterterrorism investigations
What began as a local group has morphed into an international criminal organization
Virgin Islands government said the new law will allow the police department to seek help from federal agencies
One of the “bottle bombs” exploded Monday inside a Penny Saver box
Family members say they won’t have closure until someone is held accountable for the death of US Agent
Sheriff’s office reportedly loaned military surplus goods to non-police organizations
Suspect is believed to be responsible for bank robberies in nine states
Barrett Brown, 31, was arrested Wednesday night and booked into the Dallas County jail
Four are also suspected of pulling off about 10 other heists
FBI has opened an investigation into the deaths of the four people killed in the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi
AntiSec group posted 1 million unique ID numbers for Apple devices, claimed they were obtained from agent’s laptop
Suzanne Barr is accused of sexually inappropriate behavior toward employees
She led an international team that in March arrested one of the world’s most wanted computer hackers
The Panthers had shootouts with police, including a 1967 incident in which one Oakland police officer was killed and a second one wounded
20 years ago, infamous standoff helped spark an anti-government patriot movement
Agency is asking local law enforcement agencies for help collecting tattoo information
Kim Dotcom was arrested in the raid for massive-scale Internet piracy
Investigators determined gunman Wade Michael Page died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head
A report by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service studied the cases of 46,734 illegal immigrants.
Authorities say agent was being treated for depression and was said to be distraught at the time of his disappearance
More than 4 pounds of methamphetamine was disguised as dozens of candy bars
U.S. marshals made a fingerprint match that led to a man sought for five years in a $100 million international fraud scheme
