Federal Bureau of Investigation

David Tabb: I Am Not A Crook (Anymore)

Larry the Cable Guy's Evil Twin

Catch That Crook

FBI Raids Magician's Warehouse - Seattle Link

D.B. and his DNA

A New Twist on the Nigerian Banking Email Scam

Bank Robber Asks: Why Can't I Quit You?

War and liberty

Civil liberties are threatened after Sept. 11.

Sweet/Sour

Civil liberties are threatened after Sept. 11.

Nickels, Locke, and the FBI

Security background checks on local officials raise civil liberties alarms.

FBI: Seattle Arson and Car Theft Down, Rape and Population Up

The FBI released its preliminary 2008 crime data today, and Seattle's results are a mixed bag. Overall, violent crime is down in the city, though rapes increased 40%, from 90 in 2007 to 126 in 2008. Murders inched up from 24 to 29. Meanwhile, car thefts dropped more than 37% (from 5,782 to 3,675)--l ... More >>

RIP Deep Throat

William Mark Felt was born one state over, in Twin Falls, and after graduating from the University of Idaho, found his way into the FBI, and an assignment in Seattle. But if Mark Felt is remembered around here, it's for the same thing he's remembered around the world - as Deep Throat, the role model ... More >>

The Year in Bank Robberies: No One Robs Banks in Spokane

They won't catch me. I'm fucking innocent.The FBI released its Washington state bank robbery statistics today, finding a continuation of the marked decline in bank robberies that began in 2007. The Bureau credits "strong partnerships between the FBI and local law enforcement and...the Seattle Divis ... More >>

Not Much Point Disguising Yourself With a Ride Like That

Many of the bank robber F.B.I. flyers we post seem a little harmless, almost quaint. They dress up, come in, pass a note, get a few thousand from a register (way less than the banks themselves managed to lose in their housing schemes) and head on their way. Today's guy used an actual gun, which is q ... More >>

D.B. Cooper Case Heats Up; No, Really

It's nowhere near Thanksgiving, but there is a already breaking D.B. Cooper news to report: The FBI today says it has uncovered "New developments" in the unsolved 1971 hijacking case. The leads involve electron microscopes, dollar bills on a fishing pole, and a French Canadian comic book hero. In ... More >>

A Day in the Life

It's nowhere near Thanksgiving, but there is a already breaking D.B. Cooper news to report: The FBI today says it has uncovered "New developments" in the unsolved 1971 hijacking case. The leads involve electron microscopes, dollar bills on a fishing pole, and a French Canadian comic book hero. In ... More >>

Southern Strategy

A new cold-case initiative could help solve the 1969 murder of Edwin Pratt, if only the FBI would give it the time of day.

Soldiers of Fortune

An elite Army Ranger, back from Iraq, led his cohorts in a precision hold-up, cops say. If money wasn't the motive, what was?

Two Views of 9/11

Whose conspiracy theory to believe: the official one, involving Ahmed Ressam, or those of possible crackpots?

FBI to ISPs: Bite you

Carnivore is a natural-born privacy predator.

City Hall caper

FBI cracks the files case: Aha! Nobody did it.

Portrait of the Activist as a Young Man

What it's like to read your own biography, as penned by J. Edgar Hoover.

An Indictment for Frank

Plea negotiations apparently having failed, another, perhaps final, chapter has begun in the Frank Colacurcio saga, which dates back to the 1950s and weaves through a maze of courtrooms and prisons. A probe announced last year has today turned into the indictment of the 92-year-old stripper king and ... More >>

Preps or Perps? How About Both?

As any old-timer or anyone who's watched Public Enemies will surely tell you, these days, bankrobbers just ain't what they used to be. Which is probably a good thing--we don't need a bunch of dudes with Tommy guns showing up at the local credit union. Today's bank robber is more likely to walk softl ... More >>

James Ellroy

As any old-timer or anyone who's watched Public Enemies will surely tell you, these days, bankrobbers just ain't what they used to be. Which is probably a good thing--we don't need a bunch of dudes with Tommy guns showing up at the local credit union. Today's bank robber is more likely to walk softl ... More >>

A Mystery of Violence

As the FBI investigates the possibility of a terrorism “recruitment network” in Seattle, the local Somali community struggles to understand why young men would return to a country they never knew.

"F-Bomb Bandit" Wanted for Bank Robbery, Cussing

Potty mouth.​Some robbers use cunning to steal a bank's loot. Some use fear. And then there are those that just really need the f$%#ing money right now or they're going to do something nasty. Such is the case for the lady to the right. A Seattle-area woman who the FBI says is wanted in connec ... More >>

Reader: A Young, Black Man Threatening to Kill President Obama Is Depressing

Careful it isn't poisoned, Mr. President.​Reader Gregory A. Pierson responds to Jay Martin, Twitterer Who Wished Death Upon Obama, Might Hear From FBI Soon. "It's sad enough that our President has received more death threats than any US President in history and has been assailed by whites and ... More >>

Formosa Betrayed: James Van Der Beek Travels to '80s Taiwan

Careful it isn't poisoned, Mr. President.​Reader Gregory A. Pierson responds to Jay Martin, Twitterer Who Wished Death Upon Obama, Might Hear From FBI Soon. "It's sad enough that our President has received more death threats than any US President in history and has been assailed by whites and ... More >>

Lonesome Cowboys

Lonesome Cowboys

Attorney Larry Hildes and Weekly Photographer Clash, Sort of, With FBI in a Photo Shootout

​Like those two dark-skin men who took pictures aboard a Seattle ferry in 2007, leading to a global manhunt, be careful where you snap shots in terror-wary Seattle. That goes double at Third and Spring, home to the FBI Seattle Field Office. A Seattle Weekly photographer and attorney Larry Hild ... More >>

Someone's Mailing White Powder to Government Buildings

​Around lunchtime today an employee at the IRS's Bellevue office opened an envelope and watched as white powder fell out. Shortly thereafter the same scenario repeated itself at three other government buildings: the federal courthouse in Seattle, an FBI office in Spokane and the U.S. Attorney' ... More >>

Glenn Beck on Russian Spies in Seattle (Video)

​Espionage expert Glenn Beck went on Fox & Friends yesterday to talk about the Russian spy crisis: the FBI's arrest of 10 infiltrators, including a Seattle couple, who were apparently trying and failing to transmit secrets back to the Motherland using nothing but shortwave radios and poorly en ... More >>

The FBI Was Investigating Colton Harris-Moore Before They Said They Weren't

​Even with his police-evading, transporting-stolen-property-across-state-lines antics, Camano Island's least favorite son has never rated very high on the FBI's list of priorities. That's always been the agency's official line, anyway. But now that the manhunt for Colton Harris-Moore has gone ... More >>

Glen Milner, Seattle Activist, Investigated by FBI - But Not Improperly, Say Feds (Updated)

​Update: Milner says Justice probers overlooked evidence that he was spied on. More below. From 2001 through 2006, the FBI investigated U.S. peace and social activists, including Seattle's longtime anti-nuclear protester Glen Milner, a Justice Department Inspector General's report revealed to ... More >>

Perry Griggs, Ponzi Scheme Extraordinaire, Allegedly Bilked Clients, Friends, Even Inmates

​You know you've made it as a Ponzi schemer when even while you're locked up for Ponzi scheming you still manage to swindle your cellmates. FBI agents say Perry Griggs was that good (or bad, depending on your appreciation of the long con). He and his wife Rachelle Griggs, formerly of the Marys ... More >>

Mohamed Osman Mohamud, Accused Portland Bomber, had a Little Help from His FBI Friends

​It's called a sting, not entrapment, that led to the arrest of accused would-be bomber Mohamed Osman Mohamud, 19, in Portland Friday. As he pressed cellphone buttons that he thought would detonate a car bomb during a crowded tree-lighting ceremony at Pioneer Courthouse Square, agents from the ... More >>

Anita Ramasastry, UW Prof, Lays Down the Law on 'Sextortion' by Laptop

​As you've likely realized by now, the Internet's a two-way deal. Enlightenment flows both ways, as does garbage. The latest drawback, recently unveiled by the FBI, is electronic blackmail called "sextortion."

FBI Issues Alarmist Memo That "Video Girl Barbie" Could Become "Kiddie Porn Barbie"

​By the FBI's logic, the new "Video Girl Barbie" doll, which has a small working video camera in the toy's chest, has the potential to become the latest technology in child porn production. Never mind the fact that making child porn involves more than owning a camera and an action figure.

Lian Yang, Microsoft Engineer, Arrested For Satellite Parts Smuggling Plot After Portland Jihadist-Style FBI Sting

​Much has been said about the FBI tactics used in apprehending alleged attempted Portland bomber Mohamed Osman Mohamud. Was he a dyed-in-the-wool jihadist that would have struck, were it not for an FBI sting? Or was was he an impressionable young man that was goaded toward terror by overzealou ... More >>

'F-Bomb Bandit' Among Bank Robbers Who Made Big Headlines But Little Profit Last Year

F-Bomber at work​Not that we're recommending it. But if you're looking for work, bank robbery seems to pay well. Of the 5,628 total reported U.S. bank robberies, burglaries, and larcenies in 2010 - including 148 in Washington - more than $43 million was taken, but only $8 million recovered, ac ... More >>

Seattle Anarchists Ask That You Not Rat Them Out to the Feds--No Matter What You Read on IndyMedia

​An interesting article has been showing up on IndyMedia sites around the country lately. It's essentially a plea for people to turn in their radical--possibly criminal--friends to the feds so they can collect the mediocre rewards for doing so--"$2,000 for each." The local anarchists on Puge ... More >>

He Killed Edwin Pratt

A key source in the civil-rights crusader's murder says police have solved Seattle's coldest case.

Terrorist's Dream Headline: "Three Muslim Males Walk Into MEPS Building, Seattle, Washington and Gun Down Everybody"

​Abu Khalid Abdul-Latif had a vision. The orchestrator of a foiled plot to massacre Army recruits at a federal building in south Seattle, he allegedly told an FBI informant that he was "trying to get something that's gonna be on CNN and all over the world." He had even picked out his dream hea ... More >>

D.B. Cooper Hijacking Case Closer to Being Solved Thanks to Mysterious Clues

​William Gossett. Kenneth Christiansen. Ted Mayfield. Richard Floyd McCoy, Jr. Jack Coffelt. Duane Weber. John List. Barbara Dayton. These are all names of people that have been suspected by investigators to be the infamous "D.B. Cooper," the mastermind behind the nation's only unsolved comm ... More >>

D.B. Cooper: Born in Missouri, Buried in Oregon?

Pilot Butte Cemetery in Bend, Ore.​A woman named Marla Cooper has come forward claiming her deceased uncle is the infamous hijacker D.B. Cooper. Cooper, only 8 years old at the time, told ABC News that she remembers seeing her two uncles, one whom she identified as Lynn Doyle Cooper, plannin ... More >>

L.D. Cooper's DNA Is No Match to Hijacker D.B. Cooper, Says FBI

Uncle L.D. ​Here's a rather important bit of info about the D.B. Cooper hijacking case that somehow no one besides NPR seems to have noticed.

Q&A with Dr. Mary Ellen O'Toole, Former FBI Profiler, On Amanda Knox and Why Being Pretty and Female Matters in a Murder Trial

​Dr. Mary Ellen O'Toole spent 14 years of her 28-year career with the FBI getting inside the heads of criminals through her work as a profiler. Her book Dangerous Instincts: How Gut Feelings Betray Us examines how appearances, instincts and preconceived notions can get in the way of finding th ... More >>

Boeing Workers in Philadelphia Popped Pain Pills Like Candy, Says FBI

​For four years FBI agents monitored dozens of Boeing employees at a plant near Philadelphia while they bought, sold and took a veritable pharmacy's worth of prescription pain pills while on the job.

If Your Mom Killed Federal Prosecutor Tom Wales, Turn Her In

​Someone hides in your bushes and shoots your parent, spouse, or child to death, fleeing into the night. You know that somewhere, that man or woman returns home, maybe sweaty from fleeing or with mud-caked shoes. Maybe someone they live with notices and gets suspicious. You pray that person co ... More >>