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Apr 22, 2019
Statistics gathered by the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) for 2018 show Internet-enabled theft, fraud, and exploitation remain pervasive and were responsible for a staggering $2.7 billion in financial losses last year.
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Apr 17, 2019
As part of the Appalachian Regional Prescription Opioid Strike Force, the FBI joined partner agencies in announcing the largest law enforcement action to date against illegal opioid prescribers.
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Apr 15, 2019
Frank Sprenz, a former Ten Most Wanted Fugitive and prolific criminal who, among other offenses, stole small planes and flew to various cities to evade the law, was arrested 60 years ago this week.
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Apr 12, 2019
Three men were sentenced to federal prison after being convicted of conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction against Somali immigrants in a Kansas apartment complex.
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Apr 09, 2019
Thanks to a multi-agency investigation, the FBI and Department of Justice announced charges against 24 defendants who were allegedly part of a $1.2 billion fraud scheme against Medicare—one of the largest in U.S. history.
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Apr 08, 2019
The FBI's Victim Services Response Team, a specially trained cadre of victim specialists, agents, and analysts, was established in 2005 to provide support for victims in mass casualty events.
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Apr 05, 2019
Thirty-five years after the bust of a vast, long-running Mafia drug conspiracy that touched four continents, the Pizza Connection case continues to pay dividends for partnerships, policing, and public safety.
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Apr 02, 2019
A nationwide push to test backlogged sexual assault kits is teaching law enforcement about the serial nature of many sexual offenders—and as we mark Sexual Assault Awareness Month, the findings offer important insights into the nation's most underreported violent crime.
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Mar 28, 2019
As the FBI celebrates 100 years of African-American special agents and observes Women's History Month, we remember Sylvia Mathis, the first African-American woman to serve as an FBI agent.
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Mar 26, 2019
The Joint Criminal Opioid and Darknet Enforcement (J-CODE) team is delivering results through coordinated efforts and the commitment of the nation's law enforcement agencies to address opioid sales on the Darknet.
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Mar 25, 2019
Two decades ago, computer viruses were still relatively new notions to most Americans, but the fast-moving and destructive Melissa virus changed that in a significant way and showed many the darker side of the web.
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Mar 20, 2019
For two decades, members of the FBI's Evidence Response Teams have trained on properly excavating burial sites at the Anthropology Research Facility in Knoxville, Tennessee.
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Mar 18, 2019
A company that was investigated for making false statements regarding the levels of formaldehyde in its laminate flooring products has agreed to pay a $33 million penalty for securities fraud.
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Mar 15, 2019
A real estate fraudster who targeted victims with limited English proficiency was sentenced for swindling homeowners and would-be homeowners out of more than $1 million.
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Mar 13, 2019
FBI Director Christopher Wray has made a visit to the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York City a required part of the curriculum for all new special agent and intelligence analyst trainees.
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Mar 07, 2019
Former FBI Director William Webster discusses being the target of a Jamaican lottery scam and his role in the ensuing investigation that led to his fraudster's arrest and conviction.
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Mar 07, 2019
Former FBI Director William Webster discusses being the target of a Jamaican lottery scam and his role in the ensuing investigation that led to his fraudster's arrest and conviction.
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Mar 06, 2019
At the RSA Conference in San Francisco, Director Christopher Wray discussed the FBI's approach to combating cybercrime through expertise, technology, and partnerships.
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Feb 27, 2019
The FBI's Art Crime Team is seeking to identify the rightful owners of more than 7,000 artifacts recovered from an Indiana farm in 2014 that were taken from locations spanning the globe.
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Feb 25, 2019
According to the FBI's Preliminary Semiannual Uniform Crime Report, both violent crime and property crime decreased in the first half of 2018 when compared to statistics from the first half of the previous year.
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Feb 22, 2019
A group of fraudsters who stole more than $4 million from inmates' families by falsely claiming they could buy sentence reductions are now serving their own prison terms.
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Feb 19, 2019
An Alabama state legislator, coal company executive, and lawyer have been sentenced for their roles in a bribery and public corruption scheme aimed at stopping environmental enforcement actions.
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Feb 15, 2019
This year marks the 100th anniversary of African-American special agents in the FBI, and we honor the countless contributions these agents have made over the last century in making the Bureau stronger and the nation safer.
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Feb 13, 2019
A former U.S. Air Force intelligence specialist has been charged with espionage on behalf of Iran in an indictment that also charges four Iranians with a cyber campaign targeting U.S. intelligence personnel.
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Feb 11, 2019
A company founder who drew investors into the emerging market of digital currencies with false claims—ultimately defrauding them of more than $9 million—will be spending time in prison.
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Feb 07, 2019
A prominent New York gallery owner is spending time behind bars for his role in an elaborate scheme to defraud art dealers and collectors out of millions of dollars.
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Feb 04, 2019
Through strong partnerships with Georgia Tech and Malaysian authorities, the FBI brought to justice two hackers who stole from personnel at U.S. colleges and universities.
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Jan 31, 2019
January marks National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month, but a recent case illustrates how the FBI works with partners year-round to get traffickers off the streets and help victims rebuild their lives.
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Jan 28, 2019
Chinese telecommunications equipment manufacturing giant Huawei has been charged with bank fraud, wire fraud, conspiracy to defraud the United States, and theft of trade secrets, among other crimes.
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Dec 21, 2018
On the 30th anniversary of the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, family members and officials gathered at Arlington National Cemetery to honor the 270 victims lost in the attack.
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Dec 20, 2018
Two hackers associated with the Chinese government have been indicted for infiltrating numerous companies around the globe as well as U.S. government agencies.
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Dec 17, 2018
Acting as a money mule, or moving illegally acquired funds at the direction of another person, aids the work of criminals and is itself a crime.
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Dec 14, 2018
Thirty years after the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, the FBI and its partners are still actively seeking justice for the 270 victims and their families.
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Dec 10, 2018
The FBI released information on more than 6 million criminal offenses submitted to its National Incident-Based Reporting System last year, as law enforcement continues transitioning to the more robust system.
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Dec 06, 2018
A man who profited from the ransomware known as Reveton, which appropriated the FBI logo to scare victims into paying to unlock computers infected with the malware, will be spending time in prison.
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Dec 03, 2018
A fraudster and his associates who bought credit card numbers online and used them to buy prepaid gift cards and money orders—stealing thousands of dollars in the process—have been sentenced for their crimes.
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Nov 28, 2018
Two Iranian men were indicted in connection with the deployment of the sophisticated and sinister SamSam ransomware that crippled the operations of critical facilities in the U.S. and Canada.
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Nov 27, 2018
Samuel Little has confessed to 90 murders to date, and the FBI's Violent Criminal Apprehension Program is working with partners nationwide to match those confessions to killings that occurred between 1970 and 2005.
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Nov 26, 2018
A Canadian man was sentenced to more than 11 years behind bars for orchestrating a telemarketing credit card scam that defrauded at least 60,000 victims, many of them elderly, out of more than $18 million.
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Nov 21, 2018
Prosecutors secured a 35-year prison sentence for an armed robber who hit three Philadelphia corner stores during a violent two-day crime spree in 2016.
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Nov 19, 2018
The owner of a Maryland telemarketing company that defrauded small businesses, schools, churches, non-profits, and others out of millions of dollars will be spending time behind bars.
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Nov 13, 2018
The number of hate crime incidents reported to the FBI increased about 17 percent in 2017 compared with the previous year, according to the latest annual Hate Crime Statistics report.
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Nov 08, 2018
The FBI uses science, technology, engineering, and math in nearly every investigation, and STEM Day serves as an opportunity to highlight career opportunities for individuals with these skill sets.
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Nov 05, 2018
The creator of the purported luxury music festival Fyre Fest will be spending time behind bars for defrauding investors and customers out of more than $26 million in two separate schemes.
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Nov 02, 2018
Thirty years ago, a graduate student unleashed the first major attack on the Internet and became the first person convicted of a new type of crime.
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Nov 01, 2018
The FBI and Department of Justice jointly announced economic espionage charges against a state-owned Chinese enterprise and other parties, along with a wider effort to combat Chinese economic espionage.
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Oct 30, 2018
Two unrelated sextortion crimes committed months apart and hundreds of miles away from each other illustrate the dangers of compromising personal photos being in the wrong hands.
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Oct 22, 2018
An Indiana resident who pledged his support to ISIS was sentenced to 15 years in prison for distributing information on explosives and poisons for use in a terror attack.
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Oct 19, 2018
A man who operated a bogus charity and duped multiple corporations out of hundreds of thousands of dollars in matching donations will be spending time behind bars.
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Oct 18, 2018
A new FBI initiative to help identity public corruption earlier will focus on a primary source of most of the corruption the Bureau sees—public contract corruption.
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Oct 15, 2018
The mastermind of a $2 million scareware scheme that targeted readers of a Minneapolis news website has been sentenced to nearly three years in prison.
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Oct 04, 2018
Seven GRU military intelligence officers have been charged with hacking into the computer networks of U.S. and international organizations, including those cracking down on Russia's state-sponsored doping activities.
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Oct 01, 2018
Cybersecurity is everyone's responsibility, and this month serves as a reminder that each of us has a part to play in making the Internet safer and more secure.
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Sep 24, 2018
Both violent crime and property crime declined in 2017 when compared with 2016 data, according to the FBI's annual Crime in the United States report.
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Sep 24, 2018
To spur new leads in the unsolved 1984 murder of Virginia State Police Trooper Johnny Bowman, the FBI is offering a $50,000 reward, hoping for information that will finally lead to a break in the case.
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Sep 21, 2018
A businessman dubbed the godfather of payday lending was sentenced for illegally collecting hundreds of millions of dollars in short-term loans with interest rates that approached 800 percent.
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Sep 18, 2018
A Nevada man who stole the personally identifiable information of multiple victims from his former employer and used it to open thousands of fraudulent PayPal accounts will be spending time behind bars.
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Sep 13, 2018
An Oklahoma woman was sentenced for possessing the toxin ricin as part of a plot to have her ex-husband murdered, which was a case that began after a concerned citizen reported potential criminal activity to the FBI.
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Sep 10, 2018
Seventeen years after 9/11, the FBI is helping to raise awareness about compensation available to first responders who have fallen ill as a result of exposure to toxins in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks.
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Sep 07, 2018
The FBI's Safe Online Surfing (SOS) Internet Challenge, designed for third- through eighth-grade students, has opened for the 2018-19 school year and is now available in Spanish.
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Sep 04, 2018
A pair of ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in the 1939 film ‘The Wizard of Oz' and stolen from the actress' namesake museum in Minnesota more than a decade ago has been recovered.
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Aug 31, 2018
A Florida man was recently sentenced to a federal prison term for a civil rights violation after threatening to burn down a home that a Muslim couple was planning to buy in his neighborhood.
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Aug 29, 2018
The FBI is seeking additional victims of convicted Seattle-area sex trafficker David Delay, who manipulated women into prostitution through promises of fame, money, and love.
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Aug 23, 2018
A West Virginia man already serving a 20-year federal prison term for his role in a drug distribution conspiracy received an additional 20 years for directing a second drug ring from behind bars.
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Aug 20, 2018
A two-year investigation by the FBI's Indianapolis Division, in conjunction with local and state law enforcement partners, resulted in the dismantling of a prolific cargo theft ring.
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Aug 15, 2018
A group of Florida scammers who set up pharmacies to bilk government and private insurance companies ended up writing themselves a prescription for prison time.
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Aug 10, 2018
Joseph Mahmoud Dibee, one of two remaining fugitives linked to a domestic terrorism group in the late 1990s known as The Family, has been apprehended overseas and returned to the United States.
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Aug 10, 2018
The violent Red Skin Kingz gang, led by a mother-son team on the Navajo Nation, has been dismantled and its leaders sent to prison thanks to an investigation by an FBI-led Safe Trails Task Force.
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Aug 06, 2018
A long-time financial predator was recently sentenced following his extradition from Mexico, where he carried out his latest scheme while he was a fugitive from justice in another case.
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Aug 02, 2018
At the International Law Enforcement Academy in New Mexico, delegates from six African nations worked with the FBI to explore the underlying causes of terrorism and how to counter violent extremism.
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Jul 30, 2018
Twelve members of a violent gang operating in the Charlotte, North Carolina area have been sent to prison for their roles in the cold-blooded murders of a robbery witness and his wife.
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Jul 26, 2018
The friendship of two public servants committed to the rule of law—Theodore Roosevelt and Charles Bonaparte—helped spur the July 26, 1908 creation of the organization now known as the FBI.
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Jul 23, 2018
The FBI's newest free mobile app allows aspiring special agents and fitness enthusiasts alike to test themselves against the benchmarks of the official FBI Physical Fitness Test.
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Jul 19, 2018
The owner of a payday lending enterprise used deceptive tactics, illegally high interest rates, and other illicit practices to steal millions of dollars from financially vulnerable people.
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Jul 17, 2018
A Maryland man was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for conspiring to provide material support and resources to the terror group ISIS and for engaging in terrorist activity.
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Jul 13, 2018
At an event organized by the FBI and the Chicago White Sox, hundreds of baseballs and bats seized during a sports memorabilia fraud case were donated to inner-city youth baseball leagues.
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Jul 10, 2018
In a bait-and-switch scheme, a group of fraudsters used educational programs for veterans to enrich themselves while cheating service members out of an education they were entitled to under the law.
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Jul 05, 2018
The developer of a malicious piece of software called NanoCore RAT—which allowed hackers to steal sensitive information and even access the webcams of infected computers—will be spending time behind bars.
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Jun 29, 2018
June marks the third anniversary of the Hostage Recovery Fusion Cell, a multi-agency team whose mission is to recover American hostages and support families whose loved ones are being held captive abroad.
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Jun 28, 2018
Federal officials announced the largest health care fraud and opioid takedown in Medicare Fraud Strike Force history, which resulted in 601 defendants charged and more than $2 billion in fraud losses.
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Jun 22, 2018
A California man was recently sentenced to a federal prison term for heading up a multi-faceted investment fraud/Ponzi scheme that caused millions of dollars in losses to his investors.
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Jun 19, 2018
A reward is available for information about an unknown assailant whose DNA profile has been indicted in connection with a series of attacks on women in D.C.-area hotels from 1998 to 2006.
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Jun 11, 2018
Hundreds of college students and recent graduates today took an oath promising to support and defend the U.S. Constitution, thus beginning a 10-week summer internship with the FBI.
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Jun 11, 2018
The FBI partnered with domestic and international law enforcement agencies on Operation WireWire, a large-scale, coordinated effort to dismantle business e-mail compromise schemes.
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Jun 07, 2018
A fugitive from a 1999 Indiana molestation case was apprehended in Oregon in 2016 through facial recognition software and the efforts of an FBI agent who was an Indiana State Police trooper when the crime occurred.
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Jun 04, 2018
Following a joint FBI/NYPD investigation, a member of a violent, drug-dealing street gang in New York was sentenced to 75 years in prison for the murder of a rival gang member.
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Jun 01, 2018
The owner and operator of a hugely popular—and illegal—download service that provided copyrighted music for free will be spending time behind bars for a scheme that caused estimated losses of more than $6 billion.
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May 29, 2018
A Texas building contractor who was handed a nearly 22-year sentence in absentia for his $16 million mortgage fraud scheme received additional prison time upon his return to the U.S. after fleeing to Mexico.
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May 25, 2018
On this day—and every day—the FBI works to reunite missing children with their families and asks the public for help in locating children who have been reported kidnapped or missing.
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May 23, 2018
Making a hoax threat against a school or other public place is a serious federal crime that can land you in prison and affect the rest of your life.
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May 17, 2018
A Tennessee man who took advantage of the implicit trust of friends, neighbors, and family members in his small town will be spending time behind bars for his $43 million investment scheme.
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May 15, 2018
The FBI joins the nation in honoring local, state, and federal law enforcement officers—including its own agents—who have made the ultimate sacrifice in the line of duty.
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May 10, 2018
A total of 93 officers were killed in the line of duty last year, according to a portion of the FBI's Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted, 2017 (LEOKA) report released today.
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May 07, 2018
The IC3 has released its 2017 Internet Crime Report, which includes a wide range of information on common scams, crime trends, victims, financial losses, and IC3 support for law enforcement.
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May 03, 2018
A former California college athlete charged with running an international drug trafficking and illegal gambling organization was sentenced to more than 21 years in federal prison.
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Apr 30, 2018
A Missouri lawyer was sentenced for obstruction of justice after embezzling funds given to him by his criminal client that were supposed to be used for the client's court-ordered restitution payment.
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Apr 26, 2018
The FBI is alerting the public to a serious federal crime that is on the rise—sexual assault aboard aircraft—and encouraging people to immediately report these incidents.
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Apr 23, 2018
An Atlanta businessman and his business manager were recently sentenced to federal prison terms for defrauding a wealthy investor and several banks out of millions of dollars.
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Apr 20, 2018
In a ceremony at FBI Headquarters, Director Christopher Wray formally recognized 57 individuals and organizations from around the country for their efforts to build stronger, safer, and more cohesive communities.
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Apr 17, 2018
A 56-year-old Florida man who frequently traveled to the Philippines to have sex with young girls was sentenced to 330 years in prison for crimes related to child sex tourism.
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