A federal grand jury has unsealed sweeping racketeering charges against a dozen alleged members of the BB7 Trinitarios gang, accusing them of a two-year run of killings, shootings and a brazen highway robbery of a touring international recording artist.
Federal authorities say a Plano man built a business around selling phony trusts promising tax-free income, while pocketing millions himself. When investigators closed in, he allegedly struck back with bogus liens against senior government figures.
A 19-year-old dual U.S.-Estonian citizen accused of belonging to the hacking crew Scattered Spider is now in U.S. custody, after Finnish police caught him at an airport in April.
The Department of Justice on June 5, 2026, unveiled the full results of Operation Spring Cleaning — a three-month FBI-led crackdown that produced over 1,100 arrests, nearly 1,000 seized illegal firearms, and more than 2,700 pounds of narcotics seized from communities coast to coast.
A federal grand jury in North Carolina charged James Comey with threatening President Trump after he posted a beach photo showing seashells spelling out '86 47' on Instagram last May.
The Southern Poverty Law Center, long regarded as America's foremost tracker of extremist groups, now faces federal fraud charges after prosecutors say it covertly paid KKK leaders, neo-Nazis, and white supremacists millions in donor money.
