US Customs and Border Protection officers are trying to block bad stuff, whether it’s going or coming. Twin focuses of the federal law enforcement officers in the new year are a rising influx of overseas bush meat — butchered wild animal flesh ...
Federal prosecutors in California late Thursday, Jan. 13, charged four suspects tied to both the Florencia 13 street gang and the Jan. 10 robbery and slaying of off-duty Los Angeles Police Officer Fernando Arroyos, who was gunned down while house ...
Prodded by heavy snowfall, Alaska’s hungry moose are on the move, prompting scientists, law enforcement officials, and military leaders to warn everyone to avoid the massive mammals, because a pissed-off moose will straight-up murder your ...
COCKSPUR ISLAND, Ga. — Weeks after workers demolished a condemned building here, US Coast Guard Station Tybee crew members broke ground Wednesday, Jan. 12, on a new structure that promises to transform the entire waterfront. “Today is a seminal ...
As Officer Kurt Kaner’s police boat cut through the frigid waves in a Monday, Jan. 10, race to Chicago's Navy Pier, he knew only a few very bad things. A girl had jumped into murky Lake Michigan around 4 p.m. The water temperature hovered around ...
Overexertion at the scene of a fire and a vehicle collision claimed the lives of three firefighters at the dawn of 2022, according to the US Fire Administration. In Wisconsin, a semitrailer truck struck and killed two Mineral Point Fire ...
On Tuesday, Jan. 11, federal prosecutors in New York sued 35 gods and goddesses, but they don’t expect the deities to put up much of a fight. They’re antiquities, mostly statues, believed to have been looted from Cambodia and other Asian nations ...
A New Jersey convict has copped to his role in a gang that used drones to airlift contraband into the federal prison at Fort Dix. US Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced Monday that Johansel Moronta, 29, of Linden, became the second member of an ...
Two Los Angeles cops deserved to get canned because they chased a Snorlax and battled a Togetic instead of responding to a mall robbery, a California appellate court has ruled. Ex-police officers Louis Lozano and Eric Mitchell had argued city ...
An Ohio man lost in the waning days of December became the last known firefighter fatality for 2021. A California fire engineer who died Sunday, Jan. 9 — more than a month after being struck by a vehicle near Barstow — became the first firefighter ...
While cybercrime gets a lot of attention from law enforcement and the media these days, I’ve been documenting a less high-tech threat emerging in recent months: a surge in stolen checks. Criminals are increasingly targeting U.S. Postal Service and ...
A fugitive Missouri man who injured two federal agents in late 2020 by ramming a stolen SUV into them has pleaded guilty. Senior US District Judge Howard F. Sachs hasn’t slated a sentencing hearing in Kansas City for Ray E. Clevenger, 46. ...
Amid a rocketing rise in shooting deaths of law enforcement officers nationwide, the FBI issued a stark warning to cops to watch out for assassins who want to ambush them. “Unprovoked attacks, pursuits, ambushes, and tactical situations remained ...
Dozens of Big Easy criminals felt the hard hand of the law during the holidays. US Marshals arrested 30 people in New Orleans and outlying areas — and rescued five missing teenagers — during the annual Operation Boo Dat crackdown on convicted sex ...
Hundreds of thousands of travelers flowed through Washington Dulles International Airport during the peak holiday travel season, but federal law enforcement had their eyes on two of them. US Customs and Border Protection officers nabbed a pair of ...
With a plotline seemingly ripped from Hogan’s Heroes, a plumbing crew overseen by a correctional officer inside Atlanta’s federal prison tore down one wall and then bored a man-sized hole to reach a secret cubby inside a visitors’ restroom to smuggle ...
In the waning weeks of December, two firefighters in Illinois and Missouri joined 134 other personnel killed in the line of duty in 2021, according to the US Fire Administration. MASHAWN JERMAINE PLUMMER MaShawn Plummer, a Chicago Fire Department ...
The deaths of five law enforcement officers in Illinois, Maryland, North Carolina, and Puerto Rico close a grim year for cops nationwide. Their deaths raise to 482 the number of officers killed in the line of duty in 2021. The leading cause of ...
British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell has been convicted for her role in luring and grooming girls to be sexually abused by the American financier Jeffrey Epstein. In a court in lower Manhattan, Maxwell – a close friend of Epstein’s – was found ...
A central figure in a 2020 anti-cop rampage in Minnesota will spend the next eight years behind bars. On Wednesday, Dec. 29, US District Judge Patrick J. Schiltz sentenced Victor Devon Edwards to 100 months in a federal prison. When he gets out, ...
Storm clouds are hovering around the city of Minneapolis. It’s a warm, humid night, and several 911 calls are already behind me. My 12-hour shift started at 4 p.m., and it’s just past midnight when I start to heat my Tupperware dish full of mashed ...
If the omicron variant of the coronavirus is different enough from the original variant, it’s possible that existing vaccines won’t be as effective as they have been. If so, it’s likely that companies will need to update their vaccines to better ...
Federal, state, and county investigators are probing a Christmas evening US Border Patrol car chase that left a Mexican citizen dead and sent the driver and two passengers to San Diego hospitals. According to US Border Patrol, it all began shortly ...
An allegedly boozy, flirty, and lewd Tennessee woman who brawled with Spirit flight attendants was arrested by federal agents on Tuesday, Dec. 28, according to prosecutors. Amanda Renee Henry, 43, surrendered to federal agents in Nashville Tuesday ...
Sentenced to 35 years behind bars after trying to gun down six federal agents in 2019, an ex-member of a white separatist prison gang is appealing his case. Patrick Elliott Pearson, 49, had been living a grubby existence inside a Mae Valley, ...
The songs are timeless, the casting contemporary and dance routines still daring. But for social scientists like us, Steven Spielberg’s remake of the 1961 hit musical “West Side Story” – a film about two rival street gangs – is more than a ...
A Minnesota jury convicted the ex-cop who thought she was tasing a 20-year-old man and instead shot him to death with her pistol. Kim Potter, 49, a former Brooklyn Center Police officer, faces up to 15 years behind bars after being found guilty of ...
The bounty on the person who dognapped and decapitated a Parsons Police officer’s pet now stands at $30,000. That’s $25,000 more than the previous reward for information leading to the arrest of the person who killed 3-month-old German shepherd ...
They’re not North Pole elves, but federal agents morph into Santa’s little helpers during their annual anti-counterfeiting sting: Operation Safety Claus. Beginning in early November, Homeland Security Investigations New Orleans, US Customs and ...
Police work can be one of the best-paid professions in the United States. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the 2020 median salary for a police officer was US$67,290 – more than one-third higher than the national median of $48,769 ...
