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‘Operation Legend’ Nets Nearly 5,000 Arrests in 9 Cities, Barr Announces
By Steve Neavling Nearly 5,000 people have been arrested across nine cities as part of “Operation Legend,” an anti-crime initiative launched by the Justice Department in July, Attorney General William Barr announced Tuesday. Since the operation began on July 8, federal authorities and their local partners have arrested 267 murder suspects and seized roughly 16…
Russia, Iran Trying to Influence Presidential Election with Voter Information, FBI Warns
By Steve Neavling The FBI has warned that Russia and Iran have obtained voter information and are using it to sow division and chaos and undermine confidence in the upcoming election. The FBI Director Christopher Wray and National Security Director John Radcliffe said the two countries are trying to influence the presidential election. Iran has…
Trump Calls on Barr to Investigate Bidens As Election Nears
By Steve Neavling Trailing in the polls, President Trump on Tuesday urged Attorney General William Barr to immediately investigate unfounded claims about his Democratic opponent Joe Biden and his son Hunter. By pressuring Barr to take action to discredit a political opponent, Trump is asking the attorney general to abandon the Justice Department’s long tradition…
DEA’s Violent Crime Operation Leads to 1,500+ Arrests
A DEA operation to combat violent crime has netted more than 1,500 arrests and seized 2,135 firearms since it was launched in August, the agency announced Tuesday.
U.S. Charges Six Russian Intelligence Officers with Hacking
By Steve Neavling The Justice Department on Monday indicted six Russian intelligence agency officers in connection with what prosecutors called some of the world’s most destructive cyber attacks. The attacks targeted the Ukrainian power grid in 2016, the French elections in 2017 and the winter Olympics in 2018. A grand jury in Pittsburgh returned the…
Robert R. Wells Named Special Agent in Charge of Charlotte Field Office in North Carolina
By Steve Neavling Robert R. Wells has been named special agent in charge of the Charlotte Field Office in North Carolina. Most recently, Wells had served as deputy assistant director in the Counterintelligence Division at FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C. Wells’s career as an FBI special agent began in 2003, when was assigned to the…
Glock Donates $30,000 to DEA Survivors Fund
By Allan Lengel GLOCK Inc. recently donated $30,000 to the Drug Enforcement Administration Survivors Benefit Fund (DEASBF), which helps pay line of duty death and continuing education benefits to the families of DEA Agents and Task Force Officers killed in the line of duty. “GLOCK, Inc. has a long history of supporting the individuals and…
Instructors at DEA Training Academy Accused of Racial Discrimination
By Steve Neavling Instructors at the DEA’s Training Academy have come under scrutiny following a rash of recent complaints about racial discrimination, The Associated Press reports. In one case, an instructor is accused of calling a Black recruit a “monkey” and taunting others by making “monkey noises” on a loud speaker at the firing range. …