A veteran U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer has been convicted by a federal jury of allowing tons of marijuana and loads of people to be smuggled through his inspection lanes. After a two-week trial before U.S. District Judge Marilyn…

TULSA, OKLAHOMA— On December 17, 2013, six people were arrested after search warrants were served by federal, state, and local law enforcement in a concerted effort to reduce the distribution of heroin in Tulsa County. Five of the six arrested…

$50,000 Reward Offered for Information Leading to His Capture and Return to the U.S. Wanted fugitive Ahmad Abousamra has been added to the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorists List (MWTL). The FBI continues to offer a reward of up to $50,000…

WASHINGTON—A man has been charged in federal court with attempting to explode a car bomb at Wichita Mid-Continent Airport. The defendant was arrested as part of an FBI undercover investigation, and the device used by the defendant was, in fact,…

“Ladies and gentlemen, we got him!” These were the words spoken by L. Paul Bremer, head of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq, to announce to the world that Saddam Hussein had been captured by U.S. forces. It was Dec.…

WASHINGTON—John Charles McCluskey, 48, will receive a life prison sentence for a host of crimes arising from the carjacking and murder of a couple from Tecumseh, Oklahoma, after a federal jury announced that it could not reach a unanimous decision…

FORT WORTH, Texas—The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is proposing a $325,000 civil penalty against Dallas-based Southwest Airlines for allegedly operating an aircraft that had been improperly modified, violating Federal Aviation Regulations. On Aug. 29, 2011, maintenance…

The FBI; Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives; and Albuquerque Police Department are asking for the public’s help in finding the person or persons who threw an improvised explosive device in front of the New Mexico Probation-Parole Division Office…

A federal grand jury sitting in Hartford returned a superseding indictment today charging Dominique Mack, also known as “Lil Sweets,” 23, and Keronn Miller, also known as “Fresh,” 23, both of Hartford, with the 2010 murder of Ian Francis of…

Includes Charge of Terrorist Attack Against Railroad Carrier Jason Woodring, age 37, of Jacksonville, Arkansas, was indicted today by a federal grand jury on eight counts related to his attacks on the power grid in Central Arkansas. Woodring is currently…

DALLAS—Comfort Gates, 48, was sentenced this afternoon by U.S District Judge David C. Godbey to 72 months in federal prison and was ordered to pay $830,000 in restitution following her conviction at trial in April 2013 on charges stemming from…

PROVIDENCE, RI—Ralph M. Mariano, 55, of Warwick, Rhode Island, and South Arlington, Virginia, a former senior systems engineer with the United States Navy’s Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) in Newport, Rhode Island, and Washington, D.C., was sentenced in U.S. District…