The Justice Department plans to use $37 million to help state, local and tribal governments address a backlog of sexual assault evidence that is preventing the capture of violent offenders.
The FBI has arrested a Seattle-area couple accused of planning to drug, rape and record children.
Allison Leotta By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com For 12 years, Allison Leotta, a Detroit area native and Michigan State University grad, worked as a prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington, dealing with sex crimes and domestic violence. These days, she’s a novelist, who writes with authority on crime. Once described in the Providence Journal…
An FBI Employee in the bureau’s Chicago office has been charged with raping a teenager babysitter in his Indiana home.
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Violent crimes in the U.S. increased in the first half of 2015 compared to the same period last year, according to preliminary FBI data. Local law enforcement reported to the bureau a 1.7% increase in violent crimes in the first six months of 2015. Murder, rape, aggravated assault and robbery rose…
Three Hondurans are suing the federal government for $3 million after they were sexually assaulted last year by an on-duty Border Patrol agent who has since killed himself.
Operation Cross Country also nabbed 150 pimps and others involved in the sex trade.
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The men gathered at a warehouse in Phoenix, thinking they were buying sex slaves. But the auction was set up by the FBI as part of a two-year sting that resulted in the arrest of four American men, The Arizona Republic reports. The men outfitted their homes with chains and other…
