Posts tagged with "FBI"

FBI considering No-Fly List for D.C. rioters COMMUNITY

FBI considering No-Fly List for D.C. rioters

January 12th, 20210 WASHINGTON, D.C. — After a mob of supporters of outgoing President Trump broke into the U.S. Capitol Building last Wednesday, the FBI has launched a nationwide investigation into the incident. FBI officials have said they are considering a litany of charges, including conspiracy and sedition, and are relying on a partnership with...
Annual FBI hate crimes report marks 2019 as the "deadliest year on record" COMMUNITY

Annual FBI hate crimes report marks 2019 as the “deadliest year on record”

November 18th, 20200 WASHINGTON, D.C. — In an annual hate crimes report released this week, the FBI announced that 2019 saw a record high number of hate crime murders in the United States. Hate crimes are described by the FBI as an offense “motivated by bias toward race, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, sexual orientation, disability, gender and gender...
Attorney general charges local leader of White Supremacist group, “The Base” COMMUNITY

Attorney general charges local leader of White Supremacist group, “The Base”

October 29th, 20200 LANSING — Multiple felony charges have been filed against the self-proclaimed leader and an associate of the national White Supremacist group,  “The Base.” Following an investigation by Michigan State Police and the FBI, the two were found to be linked to a December 2019 incident in Dexter. During this incident, a family was...
U.S. intelligence reports warn of extremist threat around election Elections

U.S. intelligence reports warn of extremist threat around election

September 29th, 20200 WASHINGTON, D.C. (REUTERS) — U.S. security officials are warning that violent domestic extremists pose a threat to the presidential election next month, amid what one official called a “witch’s brew” of rising political tensions, civil unrest and foreign disinformation campaigns. FBI and U.S. Department of Homeland Security...
Republican ex-lawmakers back Biden on first day of Trump convention Elections

Republican ex-lawmakers back Biden on first day of Trump convention

August 24th, 20200 WASHINGTON, D.C. (REUTERS) — More than two-dozen former Republican U.S. lawmakers, including former Senator Jeff Flake, endorsed Democrat Joe Biden for president on Monday, the first day of the Republican National Convention, in the latest rebuke of President Trump by members of his own party. The 27 former members...
Trump defends U.S. Postal Service changes as Democrats mount pressure Elections

Trump defends U.S. Postal Service changes as Democrats mount pressure

August 17th, 20200 WASHINGTON, D.C. (REUTERS) — On Monday President Trump denied trying to undermine the Postal Service’s ability to handle a flood of mail-in ballots ahead of the November election, as Democrats prepared to move against changes his administration has set in motion. “No, we’re not tampering,” Trump said in an interview with...
FBI releases official statistics on hate crimes COMMUNITY

FBI releases official statistics on hate crimes

November 17th, 20190 WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Federal Bureau of Investigations released its Hate Crime Statistics 2018 report this week. The report is the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program’s latest compilation about bias motivated incidents throughout the nation. The 2018 data was submitted by 16,039 law enforcement agencies that provided...
FBI's Wray says most domestic terrorism arrests this year involve White supremacy Crime

FBI’s Wray says most domestic terrorism arrests this year involve White supremacy

July 28th, 20190 WASHINGTON, D.C. - FBI Director Christopher Wray said Tuesday that the agency has made about 100 domestic terrorism-related arrests since October, and the majority were tied to White supremacy. ”I will say that a majority of the domestic terrorism cases that we’ve investigated are motivated by some version of what you might call...
Two militia men plead guilty to bombing Minnesota mosque COMMUNITY

Two militia men plead guilty to bombing Minnesota mosque

January 27th, 20190 BLOOMINGTON, Minnesota - Two men have pleaded guilty in federal court to bombing a Minnesota mosque and attempting to bomb a women's health clinic in Illinois. Prosecutors say the two men and another man accused in the case were part of an Illinois militia group that called itself "White Rabbits." The U.S. Justice Department last year...
FBI detains American-born journalist without charge U.S.A

FBI detains American-born journalist without charge

January 17th, 20190 ST. LOUIS, MO — An American-born Iran-based journalist has been detained inside U.S. territories without charge. On Sunday January 13, the FBI took into custody American-born journalist and anchor Marzieh Hashemi, born Melanie Franklin, upon her arrival at St. Louis Lambert International Airport, according to her family and...
FBI: Surge in hate crimes in 2017 the largest since 9/11 COMMUNITY

FBI: Surge in hate crimes in 2017 the largest since 9/11

November 25th, 20180 WASHINGTON — Hate crimes in the United States in 2017 saw the largest increase — to more than 7,000 — since a period immediately after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, new FBI data said Tuesday. The 2017 data is the latest uniform crime reporting compilation of bias-motivated incidents from more than 16,100 U.S. law...
U.S. Appeals Court: Muslim American can sue over no-fly list U.S.A

U.S. Appeals Court: Muslim American can sue over no-fly list

September 21st, 20180 PORTLAND, OR. — On Thursday, Sept. 20, a federal appeals court revived a Muslim American man’s lawsuit accusing the U.S. government of improperly keeping him on its “no-fly list” for about six years. He said the government placed him on the list to coerce him into becoming an FBI informant. Reversing a lower court ruling, the...
Report: FBI vastly undercounts hate crimes targeting Arab Americans COMMUNITY

Report: FBI vastly undercounts hate crimes targeting Arab Americans

July 30th, 20180 WASHINGTON, D.C. — There were nearly twice as many hate crimes against Arab Americans in 2015 and 2016 than were reported by the FBI, underscoring the shortcomings of official statistics at a time of rising hate crime in the country, according to a comprehensive report on hate crime by the Arab American Institute in Washington. Using...
Arab American stars in new CBS prime-time series Art & Culture

Arab American stars in new CBS prime-time series

July 28th, 20180 NEW YORK— An Arab American immigrant will play a leading role in the upcoming CBS series “FBI”, created by Dick Wolf — best known for the “Law and Order” franchise.  Zeeko Zaki, who plays Agent Omar Adom Zidan in the show, emigrated from Egypt at just 1 month old in 1990. He grew up primarily outside of Philadelphia in...
FBI serves Detroit for more than 110 years COMMUNITY

FBI serves Detroit for more than 110 years

July 28th, 20180 DETROIT — The FBI celebrated 110 years of public service on Thursday, July 26, and reflected on its history and the changes it’s experienced in the digital age.  Even before the FBI’s official founding, a special agent was assigned to conduct investigations in Detroit for the Department of Justice. By 1911 there was an official...
Federal agents raid Dearborn clinic Crime

Federal agents raid Dearborn clinic

April 13th, 20180 DEARBORN – FBI agents conducted a raid April 12 on Detroit Visiting Physicians, a clinic owned by Dr. Fares Yasin, removing boxes of evidence. Yasin has been accused of overprescribing opioids as well as other drugs. Agents also raided Yasin’s home and six cars before visiting the Michigan Ave. clinic. “There'd be lines...
Orlando nightclub shooter's father was FBI informant, widow's attorney says Crime

Orlando nightclub shooter’s father was FBI informant, widow’s attorney says

March 26th, 20180 ORLANDO, Fla. — A widow on trial for aiding her late husband, the gunman who killed 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, should have a mistrial declared, defense lawyers said, arguing that prosecutors withheld access to important evidence that the shooter’s father had been an FBI informant. Seddique Mateen, father of gunman...
Wayne County Sheriff's chief of operations Mike Jaafar becomes first Arab American from Dearborn to graduate from FBI National Academy COMMUNITY

Wayne County Sheriff’s chief of operations Mike Jaafar becomes first Arab American from Dearborn to graduate from FBI National Academy

March 23rd, 20180 STAFFORD, VA — The Federal Bureau of Investigation's National Academy graduated the first Arab American law enforcement executive. On March 16, Mike Jaafar, chief of operations of the Wayne County Sheriff's Office, graduated from the FBI's National Academy, a professional course of study for U.S. and international law enforcement...
We must be prudent about Dearborn's police CVE program Opinions

We must be prudent about Dearborn’s police CVE program

March 16th, 20180 On Monday evening, I sat next to two women who are social workers in Dearborn schools and mothers to college students. We were at a community workshop held by the Dearborn Police Department, titled “Defending Against Hate Crimes and Domestic Terror Acts, and Law Enforcement and Mental Health Intervention.” Part of a Department of...
Saudi man in Oklahoma charged with ties to al Qaeda U.S.A

Saudi man in Oklahoma charged with ties to al Qaeda

February 9th, 20180 WASHINGTON — A Saudi man who attended flight school in Oklahoma was charged on Tuesday with visa fraud for allegedly having lied about attending an al Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan in 2000, the U.S. Justice Department said. A federal grand jury returned a three-count indictment against Naif Abdulaziz M. Alfallaj, 34, after his...
Community and officials bid farewell to Detroit FBI head David Gelios COMMUNITY

Community and officials bid farewell to Detroit FBI head David Gelios

January 26th, 20180 DEARBORN — "Unparalleled" leadership, community outreach and the ability to fight crime are what local Arab Americans will miss about FBI Special Agent in Charge David Gelios. Those qualities are why former FBI Director James Comey named Gelios head of the Detroit division in September 2015, and what has helped Gelios form deep...
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