Facebook Changes Concern Local Police & Gov’t Agencies (Multi-Video)

Written by Hanna Kozlowska, the Quartz Immediately after a 15-year-old started shooting a handgun inside his western Kentucky high school last week, the state’s police turned to Facebook to warn and inform the greater community. The...

TX Man Sentenced for Hostage-Taking Kidnapping Plot Arrested

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Office of Field Operations (OFO) officers, working with FBI special agents and U.S. Marshals (USMS) at Colombia-Solidarity Bridge today took custody of Luis Gerardo Betancourt,...
Judge Rolando Olvera

Former Fort Hood, TX, Soldier Pleads Guilty to Alien Smuggling

Victoriano Zamora-Jasso, aka “Tata,” 51, a solider based in Fort Hood, Texas, pleaded guilty Jan. 29 for his role in a conspiracy to transport and harbor illegal aliens, and illegally re-entering...
Female genital mutilation/cutting is a federal crime. Anyone who has information about an individual who is suspected of assisting in this crime is urged to call the toll-free ICE tip line at (866) 347-2423 or complete the ICE online tip form or the FBI online tip form. Any involvement in committing this crime is a serious human rights violation which may result in imprisonment and potential removal from the U.S. (Image courtesy of ICE and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)

Help ICE & FBI Fight to Protect Girls & Women from Mutilation (Multi-Video)

Today and everyday, members of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) stand shoulder-to-shoulder with our Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) partners and citizens everywhere to demand the eradication of female genital...
Researchers funded by NIJ studied the effects of Florida laws to address the opioid epidemic and found that they did indeed help reduce the number of “pill mill” clinics. (Image courtesy of the AP, the Florida Department of Public Safety and YouTube)

FL Legislation Helps Reduce the Number of ‘Pill Mills’ (Multi-Video)

By NIJ Florida is one of the states that has been hardest hit by the prescription drug abuse epidemic. In 2010, more people died in Florida from opioids than from cocaine. In the same...

Queens Man Sentenced for ISIS-Directed Terrorist Attacks in NYC

Munther Omar Saleh, 22, of Queens, New York, was sentenced on Tuesday to 18 years in prison, to be followed by a term of 10 years’ supervised release. Saleh pleaded guilty on...
Federal agencies will share "biographic, biometric, and related derogatory information" through a new National Vetting Center that will coordinate intelligence to identify people who present a threat to national security, border security, homeland security or public safety, according to a presidential memorandum issued Feb. 6.

Trump Creates Multi-Agency National Vetting Center for Entry Into the US

Tuesday, February 6, President Donald J. Trump signed a National Security Presidential Memorandum to establish a National Vetting Center (NVC) (See complete NSPM – 9 below) to coordinate the efforts of departments and...
The DEA has placed all illicit fentanyl analogues into Schedule I. This action is expected to reduce these substances' flow into the country and slow the alarming increase in overdose deaths linked to synthetic opioids.

DEA Emergency Schedules Fentanyls to Reduce Overdoses (Multi-Video)

Acting Administrator Robert W. Patterson, of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has issued a temporary scheduling order to schedule fentanyl-related substances, not currently listed in any schedule of the Controlled Substances...
“To secure our borders and make America safer, Congress must act to close these legal loopholes that have created incentives for illegal immigrants and are being exploited by dangerous transnational criminal organizations like MS-13,” said Tyler Q. Houlton, DHS Acting Press Secretary.

DHS Addresses January Border Apprehension Numbers

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Acting Press Secretary Tyler Q. Houlton has released the following statement on U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) January Southwest Border Migration numbers: “DHS front-line personnel are...
SDUSM (retired) Richard “Kirk” Bowden during the December 2016 dedication ceremony at USMS headquarters.

USMS & Our Nation Lose a Legend of the Civil Rights Era (Learn More)

On January 20, 2018, the United States Marshals Service (USMS), and our country, lost a legend of the Civil Rights Era. Richard Kirkland "Kirk" Bowden shined as an example of a...