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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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. …
By Steve Neavling Secret Service agents are tasked with protecting the president, but they often don’t wear masks to protect against the spread of the coronavirus at campaign events, according to an ABC News review of videos and photographs. Secret Service agents are required to wear masks, and the CDC recommends the use of face…
