Fallen Officer: Lieutenant Benjamin Santiago-Fragoso

Lieutenant Benjamin Santiago-Fragoso and Agent Jorge Sanchez-Santiago were shot and killed as they transported a prisoner jail.

The prisoner was somehow able to obtain one of the officers’ weapons. Agent Sanchez-Santiago was shot once in the head and Lieutenant Santiago-Fragoso was shot three times in the chest and critically… »

Books We Like

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Columbine ~ Dave Cullen
Beyond Pepper Spray: The Complete Guide to Chemical Agents, Delivery Systems, and Protective Masks By Michael E. Conti
Police Pistol Craft: The Reality-Based New Paradigm of Police Firearms Training By Michael E. Conti
Emotional Survival for Law Enforcement: A Guide for Officers and… »

Online Auction Fraud

One in four complaints in 2008 to the Internet Crime Complaint Center involved online auction fraud.

Computers, sports memorabilia, rare coins, designer fashions, and even cars.

These are just a few of the items offered for sale every day on legitimate online auction sites. They’re also just a small sample of the items used to lure unsuspecting… »

FBI Wants Law Enforcement Agencies To Submit Murder & Other Violent Crime Cases

FBI: Highway Serial Killings Initiative

In 2004, an analyst from the Oklahoma Bureau of Investigation detected a crime pattern: the bodies of murdered women were being dumped along the Interstate 40 corridor in Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, and Mississippi.

The analyst and a police colleague from the Grapevine, Texas Police Department referred these cases to our Violent Criminal… »

Steering Clear of Car Cloning: Advice and Solutions

Car cloning: stealing the identity of a legitimately-owned vehicle and slapping it onto a stolen car.

It’s a serious crime problem that’s being aggressively investigated by law enforcement. For example: today in Tampa, we joined with our partners in announcing that 17 major players in a long-running car cloning criminal enterprise have been indicted by a… »

FBI National Instant Criminal Background Check System

Located at the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division in Clarksburg, West Virginia, the NICS Section processes background checks for the FFLs in those states that have declined to serve as POCs for the NICS. The FFLs conducting business in these states will contact the NICS either by telephone, via one of the contracted… »

FBI: White-Collar Crime and Fraud Information

From Federal Bureau of Investigation White-Collar Crime and Fraud
Fraud—the art of deliberate deception for unlawful gain—is as old as history; the term “white-collar crime” was reportedly coined in 1939 by Professor Edwin Sutherland and has since become synonymous with the full range of frauds committed by business and government professionals. Today’s con artists are more… »

America’s Children Are Not For Sale

In June 2003, the FBI in conjunction with the Department of Justice Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children launched the Innocence Lost National Initiative. Their combined efforts were aimed at addressing the growing problem of domestic sex trafficking of children in the United… »

Extortion Scheme Targets Ethnic Business Owners

The FBI is currently aware of a nationwide attempt to extort ethnic business owners, mostly
of Asian decent, through telephonic threats of violence. The telephone calls appear to be originating from foreign countries. The caller acquires an adequate amount of open source information about the victim through Internet searches. This misleads the victim into believing the… »

FBI: Now on Facebook, YouTube and Twitter

“To reach out to the public, we need to be where people are—and we know tens of millions of people spend their time in social media sites,” says John Miller, head of FBI Public Affairs. “Adding our fugitives, missing kids, threat and scam warnings, and other information into these sites is an extension of what… »