ATF News

A. Courtney Cox, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that on November 20, 2009, TOMMIE LEE HOPKINS, age 49, of East St.

A Houston windshield repairman has admitted to helping manage a part of a broader conspiracy to traffic more than 300 military-style weapons across the border, part of a plea deal requiring him to tell federal agents about the ring that supplied weapons to Mexico's fearsome Zetas drug cartel.

A federal grand jury in Greenbelt, Md., has indicted 19 alleged members of the Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation for conspiracy to participate in a racketeering enterprise, announced Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division Lanny A. Breuer and U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein.

Federal authorities have charged 19 alleged members of the violent street gang Latin Kings in raids in Maryland, and arrested those not already jailed on other charges, officials announced Thursday.

Hartford police Det. Robert Lawlor didn't mention seeing a gun the night he fired his weapon into a Nissan Maxima on May 7, 2005, killing the passenger and injuring the driver, a federal agent who was working with Lawlor that night testified Wednesday in Superior Court.

The prosecution continued to call witnesses Wednesday in an attempt to prove their case against a former Williamston man accused in the murder of an Easley pawn shop broker in June 2006.

The final defendant caught and tried in the drug investigation surrounding Cartwright's Recreation Center in Winchester has been ordered to serve nearly 13 years in prison.

FRANKFORT, Ky. a ' The power of teamwork paid off recently when the Kentucky State Police, the Pulaksi Co.

An Army Special Forces soldier was arrested Monday following the discovery of 100 pounds of explosives outside his Montgomery County home.

ATF agent Jessie Summers tried to deal with misconceptions before he talked about the illegal gun trade in Central Washington.

YAKIMA, Wash. a ' The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives says Washington is the No.

It took Bob Wyatt two weeks to find the bullet in the synagogue's wall. What Wyatt didn't know then - what nobody knew then - was that John Allen Muhammad had fired on the Tacoma synagogue in a prelude to the killing spree that terrorized the Washington D.C. area in 2002.

The city of Los Angeles has already offered a reward for the outstanding suspect in the case of a murdered 4-month-old infant.

Fifteen individuals were indicted by a federal grand jury relating to charges of conspiracy to distribute crack and powder cocaine in Bay City, Michigan, United States Attorney Terrence Berg announced today.

Federal investigators say they've rousted a Bay County drug ring. A federal grand jury indicted 15 members of the Marshall Organization that trafficked crack and powder cocaine throughout the eastern Lower Peninsula, U.S. Attorney Terrence Berg said.

Members of the Colorado Bureau of Investigation use a cadaver dog to search the rubble of the Branch Inn on Friday, Nov.

Police arrested two people Wednesday for allegedly stealing dynamite from a Bethel quarry last year and say the suspects are part of a long-running burglary ring responsible for roughly 100 burglaries at homes and businesses.

Polk County detectives have seized a working moonshine still in Bartow. On Thursday, November 5, 2009, acting on an anonymous tip, Polk County Sheriff's undercover detectives served a search warrant at 7316 Thomas Jefferson Circle East in Bartow and seized a working moonshine still.

FALLS CHURCH, Va. - Fourteen people were charged Thursday with illegally purchasing 77 million contraband cigarettes from undercover agents in Virginia over the last year and smuggling the tobacco into New York.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives says the cause of Monday's two-alarm fire at Smoky Point Plaza near Arlington is undetermined.