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.
As tensions escalate overseas, local agencies may face heightened risks from lone-actor attacks, soft-target threats and possible cyber retaliation
Two decades after 9/11 reshaped intelligence sharing, evolving threats and fading collaboration are exposing gaps that law enforcement must urgently rebuild
As Congress disputes immigration policy, a DHS shutdown disrupts grants, training and federal partnerships that state and local agencies rely on for operational support
Civil rights groups say they should not work with the agency on terrorism investigations because of privacy issues
Suspected drug smuggler was attempting to flee into Mexico by climbing over a border fence when he was shot 3 times by a pursuing Border Patrol Agent
Petty Officer 2nd Class Ian Howell is charged only with dereliction of duty now that the most serious charges of negligent homicide, assault, and negligence with a boat were dropped
Obama signed legislation that reduced the sentencing disparity between the two types of cocaine from 100-to-1 to 18-to-1
The arrests were made Thursday and Wednesday as part of two federal indictments for activities since 2005, stated a news release by the U.S. Attorney’s Office
Prosecutors argued the defendants were ready and willing to attack Americans, but lawyers for the four men say the case should be thrown out because they were ‘entrapped’ by a paid FBI informant
When you’re a ‘loaner’ you can be on urban streets surrounded by millions on one day and the next day be deep in a canyon outnumbered 10-to-1 by rattlesnakes
Nearly 50 police officers have been killed in the line of duty this year, a 20 percent rise from the same point in 2010
Newark Police Director Garry McCarthy said, “I’ve never seen this type of collaboration in my 30 years of police work”
The FBI Agents Association has recommended Michael Mason, a 23-year bureau veteran who would be the FBI’s first black director
Unprecedented numbers of cops work in Mexico and high-profile arrests occur monthly while drones spy on cartels
Following the arrest of the mayor, police chief, and a trustee in a federal gun smuggling case, Luna County Sheriff Raymond Cobos says he decided to suspend the village police department’s access to Luna County dispatch services
Georgia’s stockpile of the drug has been a target of death row inmates and capital punishment critics due to connection with an alleged ‘fly-by-night’ supplier
Source tells AP that the flights of unmanned aerial vehicles are operated by the departments of Defense and Homeland Security
U.S. Ambassador in Mexico Carlos Pascual met with Juárez Mayor Hector Murguia to discuss national security after blow against the Barrio Azteca gang
After 10 days on the run, pair stole a pickup truck from a man and asked him how to get to Interstate 40
Federal authorities are tracking a possible connection between foreclosed home seizures and the so-called ‘sovereign citizen’ sect
As we approach the 10 year anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, it is a very useful exercise to remind ourselves about some of the most basic — and most visible — signs which can help police officers thwart a plot
We’ve had dozens of attempted attacks by radicalized Islamist terrorists here in the United States since 9/11, and only in the case of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan was there any degree of ‘success’ on the part of the attacker
In the early morning hours, Chief Angelo Vega was arrested on suspicion firearms and drug trafficking
Saudi attending college in Texas was indicted on a charge of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction
The St. Louis attack came less than a month after a marshal was killed and two wounded in West Virginia
48-year-old John Perry was shot in head
System turned up 910 additional matches between prints submitted to the bureau and prints in the agency’s database
A second U.S. marshal and a St. Louis officer were wounded in the shootout, which started while serving a warrant
The latest roundup is part of a more than 5-year-old effort aimed at U.S. street gangs with ties to Mexican drug cartels and other drug traffickers
“We are fully aware that budget decisions in Washington directly influence programming decisions throughout the country”
ATF spokesman Tom Crowley is referring questions about further details to the U.S. Justice Department
