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Connecticut Man Accused of Assaulting Federal Task Force Members Indicted
By Steve Neavling A 32-year-old Connecticut man was arrested Thursday after a grand jury indicted him on charges of assaulting five federal law enforcement officers. Dennis Lee Waiters, 32, of Torrington, was under investigation for gang-related violence when members of the FBI’s Bridgeport Safe Streets Task Force and Bridgeport Police Department tried to pull over…
Retired FBI Agent Wrote Book about Ex-Trooper Wrongfully Convicted of Murdering His Wife, 2 Children
By Steve Neavling A retired FBI agent published a book about a former Indiana State Police trooper who was wrongfully convicted of murdering his wife and two young children at their home. Gary Dunn, a 27-year veteran of the bureau, said he felt compelled to write the book to set the record straight about David…
CBP Officer in Hot Water After ‘Inadvertently’ Showing Porn to Middle School Students, Police Said
A CBP officer is accused of “inadvertently” showing a pornographic image to seventh graders at a middle school in Texas.
Sailor Convicted of Selling Illegal Machine Guns in Undercover ATF Operation
By Allan Lengel A U.S. Navy sailor faces sentencing next March 31 after being convicted last week by a federal jury in Norfolk, Va., of possessing and selling unregistered machine guns in what turned out to be an undercover ATF operation. Patrick Tate Adamiak, 28, was convicted Friday. Authorities charged that between October 2021 and…
Matthew DeSarno, Head of FBI’s Dallas Field Office, Retires
By Steve Neavling Matthew DeSarno, special agent in charge of the Dallas Field Office, announced Tuesday that he’s retiring from the FBI after 20 years with the bureau. DeSarno took the helm at the Dallas Field Office in May 2019. “For me, this has been the best job I could ever imagine having,” DeSarno told…
Ray Provencio Takes Over As CBP’s El Paso Port Director
CBP’s El Paso Port has a new leader.
Two Chinese Agents Accused of Attempting to Bribe an Undercover FBI Agent
By Allan Lengel Two Chinese intelligence agents face federal charges of trying to bribe an undercover FBI agent with hopes of obtaining classified information about a federal investigation, Insider reports. He Guochun and Wang Zheng allegedly offered the agent $61,000 in Bitcoin for secret information in the prosecution of a big Chinese telecommunications firm, the…
Man Who Tried to Stab Border Patrol Agent Pleads Guilty in Attack
A 22-year-old man is facing up to nine years in prison after pleaded guilty to attacking a U.S. Border Patrol agent in southern Arizona in January.