Attendees of the 2015 International Homicide Investigators Association symposium in Washington, DC, gathered at the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial on the evening of Tuesday, August 18, to lay a wreath in honor of the more than 20,000 law enforcement officers whose names are on the Memorial walls.

The individual who served as National President of the Phantom Outlaw Motorcycle Club and a “Three-Star General” of the Vice Lords street gang has been sentenced to 35 years in prison for violent racketeering-related crimes.

Special Agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives began investigating Mr. Michael Weaver in 2008. Agents searched through trash outside his home and found marijuana.

A California man who, in 2014 wounded federal and state law enforcement officers in a 2014 gun battle on Bureau of Land Management (BLM) property, has been sentenced to 29 years and seven months in prison.

Court orders for collection of DNA evidence from police officers for the sole purpose of excluding those officers as sources of DNA found at a crime scene is constitutionally permissible, according to the Ninth Circuit.

Since its launch 1997, Rentboy.com, a male escort advertising website, has grown into the largest online service of its kind, with the site reporting over $10 million in gross proceeds between 2010 and 2015.

Despite being in official existence for a only a few months, the Bakken Organized Crime Strike Force is already making its presence felt.

In early 2011, Mr. Aaron Graham committed a string of robberies in the Baltimore, MD area.  After robbing a Dollar Tree store, a jewelry store, a 7-Eleven, and a gas station, on February 5, 2011, at approximately 3:29 p.m., Mr. Graham entered a Burger King restaurant in Baltimore.

On March 5, 2009, Mr. Sabil Mumin Mujahid was arrested in Anchorage, Alaska, on Federal firearms charges, specifically for being a felon in possession of a firearm.  A firearm was discovered in his vehicle when he appeared at a local courthouse for a bail hearing on a state drug charge.

The FLEOA Legislative Machine prevailed with the hard-fought passage of H.R. 2146 (TSP bill). On June 29th, the FLEOA-initiated TSP bill, Defending Public Safety Employees' Retirement Act, was signed into law.

A warrantless search of a basement for her live-in grandson’s explosives did not violate the grandson’s Fourth Amendment rights, where he was not an active participant in the request for the grandmother’s consent, according to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.

Participants in an international scheme to hack newswire services in order to trade and profit on nonpublic information about corporate earnings announcements were charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) this week.

On October 14, 2010, Officer Aaron Veerman of the Bloomington, Illinois Police Department ran a license check on a vehicle registered to Tonya Smith of Kankakee, Illinois, but Ms. Smith’s driver’s license had expired eighteen years earlier.

Tune in to FEDtalk this week to discover the many offerings of the region’s national parks from the park representatives themselves. Summer is wrapping up, but there's still time for a day trip to Harpers Ferry, an afternoon in the sun at Anacostia Park, or a visit to one of Rock Creek Park’s numerous events.

An Israeli linked to one of that nation’s organized crime rings and who operated “a vast international criminal conspiracy engaged in drug trafficking and money laundering” was sentenced last week to 384 months in federal prison.

Michael S. Smith was a 22-year-old corrections officer when, on September 9, 1971, a group of inmates overtook Attica Prison in rural New York City.

As the sun set over the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington, DC, on June 30, a large group from the Fairfax 2015 World Police & Fire Games gathered at the site to honor their fallen comrades with a candlelight Memorial Service.

Tune in to FEDtalk this week for a discussion with representatives of federal employee organizations on Congress.

Tune in to FedTalk this week for a discussion on federal conference and travel restrictions, including what listeners can do to make their opinions heard.

With this year’s National Police Week upon us, it serves as a reminder of the sacrifices made daily by members of the federal law enforcement community.