FBI Arrests Reputed Gangsters in 3 States
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A dozen people including an alleged underboss of the Gambino crime family were arrested Wednesday following an investigation into organized crime in Connecticut, Rhode Island and suburban New York.
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The FBI arrested 11 public officials, including a mayor and two state lawmakers, Thursday in a federal corruption probe that spread across the state, the U.S. Attorney's office said.
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Three Chinese nationals accused of importing thousands of counterfeit luxury handbags in the United States have been arrested in the past two days, federal authorities announced Thursday.
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The three Islamic militants arrested today had amassed a huge amount of a chemical used in explosives and were planning major terrorist attacks against several sites frequented by Americans, police and security officials said.
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FBI agents hunting America's most wanted gangster have flown to London to meet with Scotland Yard detectives as the hunt for crime boss James J. Bulger focuses on Europe.
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The FBI recruited a mafia enforcer to help solve the slaying of three civil rights workers by the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi in the 1960s, according to evidence provided in Brooklyn state court by a mobster's moll.
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The US Secret Service Thursday announced arrests in eight states and six foreign countries of 28 suspected cybercrime gangsters on charges of identity theft, computer fraud, credit card fraud, and conspiracy.
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Police in Moscow arrested a suspected international crime boss who has been linked to Russia's multibillion dollar natural gas industry and has long been sought by the FBI, officials said Friday.
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Police on Tuesday arrested 46 suspected members of the Sicilian Mafia, saying they had rolled up a network of curriers who carried written notes from reputed mob boss Bernardo Provenzano to his lieutenants.
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CLEVELAND, Aug. 31 -- The FBI is looking overseas for suspects who have phoned bomb threats to more than 26 grocery stores, banks and discount stores in 17 states, including Virginia.
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US and Italian authorities lauched a massive operation against the New York and Sicilian Mafia Thursday, arresting 74 suspects in a sweep described as a major blow against organized crime.
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Officers arrested dozens of members of a notoriously violent street gang in raids across New Jersey Tuesday, capping 11 months of undercover operations.
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The members of the two criminal organizations were arrested on Friday in by the Naples Department of Prevention of Organized Crime.
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Federal agents arrested Mexican drug lord Francisco Javier Arellano-Felix off the shore of Mexico, nabbing the leader of a violent gang responsible for digging elaborate smuggling tunnels under the U.S. border, officials said Wednesday.
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NEW YORK -- Three people were arrested and one other was being sought Saturday in connection to a plot to set off explosives at John F. Kennedy International Airport, officials close to the investigation said.
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After a months-long sting operation, FBI agents raided residences in Texas, Wisconsin and New York, bringing the Justice Department into campaign against illegal downloads. -The Washington Post
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A suspected Russian gangster and phisherman, caught red-handed with $200,000 worth of stolen goods and $15,000 cash, has been charged in the US on several counts of identity and credit card fraud.