A 19-year-old Melvindale man and former member of the Michigan Army National Guard was arrested Tuesday after federal authorities say he planned a mass shooting at a U.S. military base in Warren on behalf of the Islamic State.
The FBI field offices in Detroit and Louisville have new leaders.
A federal judge on Monday tossed a pair of lawsuits that claimed the FBI and Detroit Police Department indoctrinated Rick Wershe, a cocaine dealer known as White Boy Rick, into a “criminal society” by using him as a federal informant as a child.
James A. Tarasca, the special agent in charge of the FBI’s Detroit Field Office, is retiring, ending a 24-year career with the bureau, the FBI announced Friday.
An ATF investigator based in Michigan was convicted in late April of leaking hundreds of internal, sensitive records about the agency’s plans to inspect federal firearms licenses to a person connected to gun rights advocacy groups.
The kingpin of a nationwide fentanyl distribution ring was sentenced to 22 years in prison after being convicted on drug trafficking charges, the Justice Department announced Wednesday.
CBP agents discovered a young dolphin skull while routinely inspecting international luggage at Detroit Metropolitan Airport last week.
The second leader of a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer was sentenced to 19.6 years in prison on Wednesday.
