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ATF added another weapon to its gang-fighting arsenal Nov. 28 with the formal opening of a new facility in Northern Virginia that will house 80 intelligence analysts, agents, prosecutors and support personnel — all from different agencies — and all working together to investigate and dismantle the most violent gangs in the United States. “Coordination has brought us success in the past, and can yield even more in the future,” said ATF Acting Director Michael Sullivan, speaking during the formal opening of the new facility. The new site brings together two separate gang deterrence units — the National Gang Intelligence...

EVIDENCE FROM INVESTIGATION OF 1992 RUBY RIDGE MATTER ONLY SUFFICIENT TO CHARGE ONE OFFICIAL WITH CRIMINAL CONDUCT Disciplinary Penalties Being Weighed for Others WASHINGTON, D.C. -- After an exhaustive investigation involving hundreds of interviews and the review of hundreds of thousands of pages of documents, the Justice Department announced today that the available evidence does not support further criminal prosecutions of FBI officials arising from the August 1992 incidents, at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, and their aftermath. In October 1996, E. Michael Kahoe, Chief of the FBI's Violent Crimes and Major Offenders Section, was charged with, and later pleaded guilty to,...

Richard Lee McNair is a crafty escape artist and a smooth-talking con-man who's been spotted again and again since his April 2006 prsion escape, but he always slips away. On April 5, 2006, Richard Lee McNair escaped a federal penitentiary in Pollock, La. Later that same day, running along the railroad tracks, he managed to convince a Ball, La. police officer that although he had no ID and seemed to match the physical description of an escaped convict he was really Robert Jones, out for a 12 mile jog -- from a hotel to a roofing job. Even when he...

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Judge orders Internet sale, proceeds to benefit bomb victims. In an order filed yesterday, U.S. District Court Judge Garland Burrell directed the U.S. Marshals Service to sell off the imprisoned Kaczynski's property, which includes "original writings," though not those containing "diagrams and 'recipes' for making bombs." Burrell's order, a copy of which you'll find below, includes a creepy 12-page inventory of items to be auctioned. Along with hundreds of books, bidders will be able to vie for the killer's hatchet, welding mask, blue scarf, three typewriters, and several hooded jackets. A separate court filing estimates that Kaczynski's writings--which include several...

A Duluth man sought on methamphetamine trafficking charges was killed and his 2-year-old son critically wounded in a dramatic shootout with law enforcement officers Wednesday in an airport parking lot in Homer. Jason Carlo Jacob Anderson, 31, had been living under an alias in Alaska with his girlfriend and their two young children for nearly a year, according to the girlfriend, Cherry Dietzmann.

An undercover informant helped investigators tape a conversation with one of the seven...radical environmentalists accused in a series of arson attacks and other crimes... Existence of the informant was disclosed last week by an investigator in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn, N.Y., during a bail hearing for Daniel McGowan, 31, who faces indictments that he and another man firebombed the office of a wood products mill in Glendale and the office and truck shop of a tree farm in Clatskanie in 2001. The Earth Liberation Front, an underground group that advocates economic sabotage to stop environmental destruction, took credit for...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Under criticism over inadequate security for federal judges, the director of the U.S. Marshals Service announced his resignation Friday. Benigno Reyna has led the Marshals Service, which is responsible for protecting judges and rounding up fugitives, since October 2001. His resignation is effective July 31, Marshals Service spokesman Don Hines said. Hines said Reyna, previously police chief in Brownsville, Texas, decided it was time to go back home. But federal judges have been unusually vocal in criticizing the Marshals Service following the Feb. 28 fatal shootings of the husband and mother of U.S. District Judge Joan...

AMW Capture #846 Fun in the Sun Comes to an End John Dallas Lockhart loved the beach and loved to party. But police say his quest for fun came at the expense of the most innocent of victims, including a 4-month old infant that Lockhart is accused of raping. The U.S. Marshals biggest concern was that Lockhart was the type of person who could blend in anywhere. But when he was profiled on America's Most Wanted on, June 4, 2005, tips came pouring in. Several were from the Venice Beach area in California. Akron, Ohio Police and the U.S. Marshals...

VENICE BEACH, California -- One of Northeast Ohio's most wanted fugitives has been captured Monday afternoon. John Dallas Lockhart, a 36-year-old attorney from Akron, was arrested by Akron Police detectives and United States Deputy Marshals in Venice Beach, California. Lockhart has been on the run since August of 2004 days before prosecutors filed a series of sex crimes charges against him, including the rape of a 4-month-old baby girl. What prosecutors call photo evidence of the crimes was recovered from a computer Lockhart shared with a business associate. United States Marshal Peter J. Elliott tells Channel 3 News "Lockhart had...

BREAKING NEWS MSNBC staff and news service reports Updated: 5:01 p.m. ET April 12, 2005COLUMBIA, S.C. - An ex-convict turned author being sought in two killings and a rape in South Carolina was captured Tuesday in Augusta, Ga., the U.S. Marshal's Service said. Chris Dudley, a spokesman for the Marshal's Service, told MSNBC-TV that Stanko was captured about 3:30 p.m. ET in a parking lot near a mall as he approached the 1996 Mazda pickup truck that he allegedly stole from one of his victims. Word of the capture of 37-year-old Stephen Stanko came shortly after the U.S. Marshal's...

Per front page of Drudge **Exclusive Fri Mar 18 2005 00:50:07 ET** The Chairman of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pension (HELP) Committee, Mike Enzi (R-Wyoming) has requested Terri Schiavo to testify before his congressional committee, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned. In so doing it triggers legal or statutory protections for the witness, among those protections is that nothing can be done to cause harm or death to this individual.

NEW YORK (AP) - Nearly a decade after they presided over terrorism trials, two federal judges still are under 24-hour protection by deputy U.S. marshals, who complain their duties include carrying groceries and golf clubs. Documents show that the security for U.S. District Judges Michael B. Mukasey and Kevin Thomas Duffy and their spouses far exceeds the protection given any other federal judge around the country, including the judge in Chicago whose husband and mother were slain earlier this month. Experts and officials say the seemingly random approach to protecting judges in Chicago and New York reflects the complexity of...

Marshals Find Convict Freed by Mistake Friday January 07, 2005 7:09am Washington (AP) - U.S. Marshals say they've captured the man who was mistakenly set free from the D.C. jail last week. Forty-year-old Frank Vargo was convicted in November of robbing and stabbing a cabdriver in Southwest Washington. Vargo, who has used many aliases, was tracked to a hotel in Miami Beach. Authorities tell The Washington Post that Vargo was taken into custody by members of the Capitol Area Regional Fugitive Task Force, who traveled to Florida after learning Vargo was there.

Federal Suit Charges U.S. Marshals With Violating Gannett, AP Reporters' Rights in Scalia Case By E&P Staff Published: May 10, 2004 10:54 AM EST NEW YORK The U.S. Marshals Service has been accused of violating two Mississippi journalists' Constitutional rights by seizing the reporters' tape recorders last month during a speech by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. The charges were brought in a federal suit filed today by The Associated Press, The Hattiesburg (Miss.) American, and the reporters, Antoinette Konz and Denise Grones. The American is a Gannett Co., Inc. newspaper. The suit charges violation of the First, Fourth...

REDFORD, Mich. (AP) — A man listed on the U.S. Marshals Service 15 most wanted list was shot and killed in a confrontation with officials, the agency said.Edward Mathis was fatally shot Saturday in a Redford hotel room after refusing orders from law enforcement officials to come out, according to a news release issued by the Marshals Service.Mathis, 39, was wanted on a Drug Enforcement Administration warrant issued out of the Eastern District of New York. Federal officials say he was the triggerman in a double homicide.He also was a co-leader and enforcer for a crack cocaine ring in Long...