FBI News

On December 3, 2025, the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program released “Reported Flash Mob Shoplifting Incidents: 2020-2024” on the FBI’s Crime Data Explorer.

The FBI Boston Field Office honored the Maine Resiliency Center with the FBI Director’s Community Leadership Award (DCLA).

The FBI Anchorage Field Office is participating in an anti-drug trafficking campaign launched by the Alaska High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) initiative.

An indictment was unsealed charging five men with a child exploitation enterprise, conspiracy to produce child pornography, conspiracy to receive and distribute child pornography, and conspiracy to communicate interstate threats.

Joaquin Guzman Lopez, who succeeded his father, Joaquin Guzman Loera, also known as “El Chapo,” as one of the leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel in Mexico, pleaded guilty yesterday to federal drug charges.

Joaquin Guzman Lopez, who succeeded his father—Joaquin Guzman Loera, also known as “El Chapo”—as one of the heads of the Sinaloa Cartel in Mexico, has pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Chicago to federal drug charges.

Joaquin Guzman Lopez, who succeeded his father, El Chapo, as one of the leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel in Mexico, pleaded guilty to federal drug charges.

Xilin Sun and Alexander Charles James have pleaded guilty to participating in a fraud and money laundering scheme.

Joseph A. Seiffertt, from Webster Groves, Missouri, admitted to sending and receiving child sexual abuse material online.

Dominic Lindsey, 35, of Cincinnati, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 120 months in prison for trafficking bulk amounts of methamphetamine and fentanyl.

Former Antioch police officer Devon Christopher Wenger was sentenced to seven-and-a-half years in federal prison.

A federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned an indictment charging two individuals for conspiracy to traffic suboxone.

A federal grand jury returned a seven-count indictment against three Puerto Rico Police Bureau officers: Luis A. Nieves-Colón, Ángel R. Giusti-Rosa, and Alberto Betancourt-Aponte.

Hector Bermudez, Zachary Dosch, Rumaldo Valdez, David Brilhante, and Camden Rodriguez have been charged for their participation in a child exploitation enterprise and other related offenses.

Christopher Silva of Stoneham has been indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly using an explosive to damage an ATM in Woburn, Massachusetts.

Lawrence Watkins was sentenced to 72 months imprisonment after previously pleading guilty to drug and weapons crimes.

Corey Johnson, a resident of Alexandria, Louisiana, was indicted for willfully conveying a bomb threat.

Brett Michael Dadig, a resident of the borough of Whitehall, Pennsylvania, has been indicted on charges of cyberstalking, interstate stalking, and interstate threats.

Michael J. Keitz, 56, of Canandaigua, New York, was charged by criminal complaint with interstate transmission of threats to injure the persons of another.

Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29, an Afghan national, has been charged with first-degree murder while armed for the death of National Guardsman Sarah Beckstrom.