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Federal Bureau of Investigation

  • Blogs

    April 10, 2012

    Cops Deaths: Could Procedural Changes Have Made Difference for Trooper Tony Radulescu?

    The rate of U.S. law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty has increased 75 percent the past four years, according to figures published today. Yet, officer deaths have fallen by 50 percent since the start of this year. No one can explain the divergent numbers, though some think the drop of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 14, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 30, 2011

    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.

  • Blogs

    September 29, 2011

    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 the truth ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 8, 2011

    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.

  • Blogs

    August 3, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 1, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 24, 2011

    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 >>

  • News

    May 25, 2011

    He Killed Edwin Pratt

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

  • Blogs

    May 16, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2011

    '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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 3, 2010

    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.

  • Blogs

    December 1, 2010

    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."

  • Blogs

    November 29, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 3, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 21, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 14, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2010

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    May 12, 2010

    Lonesome Cowboys

    Lonesome Cowboys

  • Film

    April 7, 2010

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

    Lonesome Cowboys

  • Blogs

    March 23, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 19, 2010

    "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 >>

  • News

    December 16, 2009

    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.

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 2, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 17, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 18, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 5, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 19, 2008

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2008

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

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 25, 2008

    A New Twist on the Nigerian Banking Email Scam

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 18, 2008

    Larry the Cable Guy's Evil Twin

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 27, 2008

    David Tabb: I Am Not A Crook (Anymore)

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 19, 2007

    Catch That Crook

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 31, 2007

    D.B. and his DNA

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 19, 2007

    FBI Raids Magician's Warehouse - Seattle Link

    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 >>

  • News

    April 4, 2007

    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.

  • News

    November 29, 2006

    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?

  • News

    September 22, 2004

    Two Views of 9/11

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

  • News

    April 30, 2003

    Nickels, Locke, and the FBI

    Security background checks on local officials raise civil liberties alarms.

  • News

    December 4, 2002

    A Day in the Life

    Security background checks on local officials raise civil liberties alarms.

  • News

    February 13, 2002

    Sweet/Sour

    Security background checks on local officials raise civil liberties alarms.

  • News

    October 3, 2001

    War and liberty

    Civil liberties are threatened after Sept. 11.

  • News

    July 26, 2000

    FBI to ISPs: Bite you

    Carnivore is a natural-born privacy predator.

  • News

    November 17, 1999

    City Hall caper

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

  • Arts

    September 30, 1998

    Portrait of the Activist as a Young Man

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

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