DEA Seizure Leads to Major Heroin Trafficking Organization Takedown
Bridget G. Brennan, New York City’s Special Narcotics Prosecutor, announced the sentencing of Jose Mercedes, Sr., (aka “Hippie”), to 14 years in state prison followed by five years post release supervision...
Texas Tech Police Officer Fatally Shot, Freshman in Custody (Multi-Video)
By Laurel Wamley, the two-way, NPR
A university spokesman tells NPR that campus police were dispatched to the room of Hollis Daniels III, 19, to check on him, after his suitemates contacted...
Come See Sharp INTELLOS at ‘ASTORS’ Awards Luncheon (Videos)
Sharp Electronics, a Proud Sponsor of the 'ASTORS' is pleased to announce that the Sharp INTELLOS Automated Unmanned Ground Vehicle (A-UGV) will be on site at 2017 ‘ASTORS’ Homeland Security Awards Luncheon at ISC...
Special Event Security: Protecting Soft Targets Against Terrorism
Guest editorial by Peter D. Yachmetz
The terror threat facing today’s law enforcement and individuals charged with special event security is more sophisticated than in previous generations.
Today’s terrorists can operate alone and/or in...
ICE Deports One of El Salvador’s 100 Most-Wanted Fugitives (Learn More)
A Salvadoran gang member with the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang, who was wanted in his home country for two murders, was deported Friday by officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's...
GTL Launches 2nd Mobile Briefing Center for Customer Site Briefings
GTL, a competitor in the 2017 'ASTORS' Homeland Security Awards Program, is debuting their second Technology in Motion motor coach, expanding an already successful nationwide bus tour.
“In April of this year, GTL launched Technology in Motion as...
Be a Survivor: Trauma Resiliency to Tragedies for First Responders
10 Stages of ATSM for First Responders
Guest Editorial by Vincent J. McNally, MPS, FAAETS
First Responders should have the “tools from the toolbox” to maintain their own resiliency to primary traumatic stress,...
Wildfires Devastating N CA Wine Country (Learn More, Multi-Video)
By Thomas Fuller and Jonah Engel Bromwich, The New York Times
Fast-moving wildfires raged across several counties in Northern California on Monday, killing at least one person, forcing the evacuation of up...
The 3 Deaths that Tested NYPD Top Cop Most in First Year (Multi-Video)
By Rocco Parascandola, The New York Daily News via The NYPD News
NYPD Commissioner James O'Neill is leading the nation's largest police department toward a once-unthinkable record: a murder rate on track...
POTUS Makes Hard-Line Demands for Any ‘DACA’ Deal (Multi-Video)
By Jeff Mason, Reuters
U.S. President Donald Trump, who pledged to help protect young people known as “Dreamers” brought illegally to the United States as children, called on Sunday for money to...
