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Napolitano Tells Congress that DHS Needs Help to Quell Border Violence

Border violence, which claimed more than 1,000 lives in January and about 6,000 in 2008, is already on the radar of Pentagon and CIA officials, who have told The Washington Times of their involvement in the current crisis in Mexico and say they are watching developments closely.

February 25, 2009

Hundreds Arrested in Cross-Country Campaign Against Drug Cartel

Federal authorities arrested more than 750 people across the country in what they describe as "the largest and hardest hitting" operation to ever target the "the very violent and dangerously powerful" drug cartel known as Sinaloa.

February 24, 2009

Call For Forensics Overhaul Linked To "CSI" Effect

Millions of people watch CBS's CSI: Crime Scene Investigation every week. But forensic evidence isn't nearly as ironclad as it appears on television. In fact, according to a study released Wednesday by the National Academy of Sciences, the nation's crime labs need a total overhaul.

February 18, 2009

FBI Agent Spent Three Years Undercover with Identity Thieves

Salesmen and parents know the technique well. It's called the takeaway, and as far as Keith Mularski is concerned, it's the reason he kept his job as administrator of online fraud site DarkMarket.

January 29, 2009

10 Houston Gang Suspects Nabbed in Federal Drug Case

Ten suspected members of the so-called Houstone street gang, a local prison gang offshoot, are in custody and authorities announced Wednesday they are seeking four more men on federal drug dealing conspiracy charges that could lead to the forfeiture of $18 million in high-end cars, jewelry and cash.

January 21, 2009

Mexican Cartels Run U.S. Drug Trade, Report Says

Mexican cartels have taken over most of the drug trade in the United States, and are working with 20 gangs, including the Barrio Aztecas, according to a just-released report by the National Drug Intelligence Center titled, "National Drug Threat Assessment 2009."

January 19, 2009

A Hero's Fall: Honored for Trolley Square Bravery, Hammond Now an Ex-Cop

Ogden, Utah, police officer Ken Hammond, called a hero for confronting Trolley Square gunman Sulejman Talovic in February 2007, resigned from the force Friday following accusations of having sex with a minor.

January 12, 2009

Georgia Cold Case Squad Cracks First Case

The Gwinnett County Police Department’s newly minted cold case squad has cracked its first case — a 2007 fatal shooting of a Norcross teenager who was working at a gas station.

January 7, 2009

Ex-U.S. Drug Czar Warns of Mexican Border Rush Because of Cartel Violence

A failure by the Mexican political system to curtail lawlessness and violence could result (in) a surge of millions of refugees crossing the U.S. border to escape the domestic misery of violence, failed economic policy, poverty, hunger, joblessness, and the mindless cruelty and injustice of a criminal state," Barry McCaffrey said.

January 7, 2009

Police Say Four-Year-Old Ohio Boy Shot Teen with Shotgun

Deputies were astonished to learn that a 4-year-old boy was the triggerman in the 7:24 p.m. shooting at his grandmother's house along Spriggs Road, about 6 miles south of Jackson.

January 5, 2009

Mistrust Bedevils War on Mexican Drug Cartels

The U.S. has begun pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into Mexico to help stanch the expansion of drug-fueled violence and corruption that has claimed more than 5,000 lives south of the border this year.

December 30, 2008

Blood from Mosquito Traps Finnish Suspect

Police in Finland believe they have caught a car-thief thanks to a DNA sample taken from a sample of his blood found inside a mosquito.

December 21, 2008

Homicide Total in Juarez, Mexico, Passes 1,500

With the homicide toll in Juárez surpassing the 1,500 mark, authorities there are left to face what border experts are calling the biggest Mexican dilemma -- ending the bloody street war between drug cartels, controlling thugs who have gone wild and preventing police corruption.

December 21, 2008

Texas Man Charged with Molestation After Police Read Girl's Letter to Santa

A 55-year-old Pharr resident was arrested after a young relative wrote a letter to Santa Claus wishing that the man would stop molesting her.

December 15, 2008

Body Count Climbs in Mexico's Bloody Drug War

So far this year in Mexico's drug war, 5,376 people have been killed, double the number of last year and more than all U.S. troops killed in Iraq.

December 10, 2008

As Mexico's Drug War Rages, Military Takes Over for Police

Even for Mexicans accustomed to ghastly headlines chronicling the country's drug-related violence, the current level of killing in Tijuana causes consternation. Some 200 people have been slain in one month. Last weekend turned into one of the city's deadliest: nearly 40 were killed, four of whom were children, and nine of them beheaded.

December 10, 2008

North Carolina Toughens Gang, Hate Crime Laws

Adults and young people involved in gang activity as well as people who burn crosses or sexually assault children now face tougher punishments as 25 new laws took effect Monday in North Carolina.

December 2, 2008

FBI Sting Nets 15 Corrupt COs and LEOs in Illinois

Drug charges were unsealed Tuesday against 15 officers: four Harvey cops, 10 Cook County correctional officers and a Chicago Police officer. The FBI orchestrated 12 fake drug deals over the last year.

December 2, 2008

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