Baltimore Man Sentenced for Armed Robberies, Carjacking, Assaulting Federal...
Baltimore, Maryland– A Baltimore man is headed to federal prison for his role in robbing multiple local commercial businesses and then later assaulting a Deputy U.S. Marshal while at the U.S....
View ArticleThe Anatomy of Elder Fraud: Ten Scams Every Family Should Recognize
Financial crimes against older adults are not isolated incidents. They are structured, repeatable, and increasingly sophisticated. What appears to be a single deceptive phone call or email is often...
View ArticlePensacola Man Sentenced to Federal Prison for Threatening a Pensacola Police...
Pensacola, Florida – Tamal W. Jenkins, 20, of Pensacola, Florida, was sentenced to 20 months in federal prison for interstate threatening communication with intent to extort. The sentence was announced...
View ArticleFormer Dallas Police Department Sergeant Sentenced to 28 Months in Federal...
A former Dallas Police Department sergeant who sold stolen service weapons was sentenced to 28 months in federal prison, announced United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Ryan...
View ArticleStar Prairie Sporting Goods Store Burglarized, $10,000 Reward Offered
STAR PRAIRIE, Wis. – The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), in partnership with the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), is offering a reward of up to $10,000 for...
View ArticleLong Beach Man Sentenced to 2½ Years in Federal Prison for Possessing Molotov...
LOS ANGELES– A Long Beach man who possessed a Molotov cocktail during an anti-immigration enforcement protest in downtown Los Angeles last year was sentenced today to 30 months in federal...
View ArticleLiberty County felon sentenced to 14 years in federal prison after taking...
BEAUMONT, Texas – A Liberty convicted felon has been sentenced to 14 years in federal prison for a firearms violation in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Jay R. Combs.Allen Joe...
View ArticleU.S. Attorney’s Office Honors Law Enforcement Partners and “Hometown Heroes”...
INDIANAPOLIS- On May 15, 2026, United States Attorney Tom Wheeler recognized more than 160 individuals from 33 federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies during the Office’s annual awards...
View ArticleMAN CHARGED FOR UNLAWFUL POSSESSION OF A FIREARM AFTER SHOOTING AT GRAND...
A previously convicted felon who shot at Grand Prairie Police Department (GPPD) officers during a domestic violence investigation was charged with unlawful possession of a firearm announced United...
View ArticleFitchburg Detective Honored With Hometown Hero Award
MADISON, WIS. – The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Wisconsin proudly announces that Detective Jordan Trundle of the Fitchburg Police Department has been awarded the inaugural...
View ArticleATF Raises the Reward to $10,000 for Information To Help Identify Person(s)...
Dallas — The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and Adair County Sheriff’s Office are requesting the public’s help for information that could lead to the identification and/or arrest...
View ArticleStolen Guns Are Crime Guns: ATF Philadelphia Field Division Provides Tips for...
Philadelphia – Agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) have seen this pattern repeatedly: unsecured firearms stolen from lawful owners, recycled through violent...
View ArticleArmed Felon Charged after Allegedly Shooting Fort Lauderdale Police K-9
MIAMI – A grand jury returned an indictment Thursday charging a Fort Lauderdale man with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon after allegedly firing at a police K-9 during a pursuit in Fort...
View ArticleStagecoaching
We called it the Stagecoach.The Stagecoach wasn't a horse-drawn wagon crossing the frontier. It was an RTD bus rattling through downtown Los Angeles in the middle of the night. Yet somehow the name...
View ArticleWhat's Your Trip, Bitch?
It was late August 1980, brutally hot, the kind of Los Angeles heat that made the pavement shimmer and turned a wool uniform into a portable furnace.I was still in the Police Academy, about a month...
View ArticleDanger! Illegal “M-Device” Explosives Injure, Kill, and Threaten Our...
ATF Urges Pennsylvanians To Not Use or Buy Them and To Report Their Manufacture and SalePHILADELPHIA– With Independence Day approaching, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF)...
View ArticleThe Dangerous Cat
Summer nights in Southwest Los Angeles were usually my favorite time to work. By then I had three or four years on the job and was already a training officer working graveyard shift in Southwest Area....
View ArticleSomebody Quit
There were a couple of times during the process of becoming a Los Angeles police officer when I honestly did not think I was going to make it. Looking back now, after a career that lasted almost a...
View ArticleATF Offers Additional $7,500 Seeking Information Regarding an Explosion
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), in coordination with the New York Police Department (NYPD) Crime Stoppers is seeking the public’s assistance in locating the person...
View ArticleOfficer Down... Sort Of
Rain changes a city.Most people think of Los Angeles as sunshine and palm trees. Cops know a different Los Angeles. Sometime around three in the morning, after a winter rain, downtown became another...
View ArticleFather whose toddler fatally shot himself charged federally for illegally...
U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Ohio COLUMBUS, Ohio – A previously convicted felon whose toddler died by gunshot wound from an unsecured gun now faces a federal charge for illegally...
View ArticleATF joins Coudersport’s celebration of Special Agent Eliot Ness’s 100th law...
PHILADELPHIA – ATF Philadelphia Field Division will join the Coudersport community to celebrate Special Agent Eliot Ness’s 100th Law Enforcement Career Anniversary, with the Eliot Ness Museum, Borough...
View ArticleKnowing Nothing Probably Saved My Life
Maybe there’s an advantage to not knowing anything.It was Christmas Eve, 1981, and I was working graveyard at LAPD’s Southwest Division. We went to work around 10:00 that night and would finish at 7:00...
View ArticleThe Day Sweet Bobby Lost His Mind Over a Watermelon
Almost forty-five years ago, when I was a probationary police officer assigned to Newton Street, I learned that some of the best stories in a police station were the ones you didn't actually see...
View ArticleDEA Marks 25 Years After 9/11 by Honoring Fallen Task Force Officers and...
Never Forget: 25 Years After 9/11 Features Artifacts from the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and United Flight 93 WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration commemorated the 25th...
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