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  • RCFLs Fight Violent Crime and Protect National Security One Byte at a Time

    RCFLs Fight Violent Crime and Protect National Security One Byte at a Time

    June 17, 2025

    As law enforcement continues to face new threats in the digital age, the FBI’s Regional Computer Forensics Laboratories (RCFLs)—with cutting-edge technology, expertise, and partnerships—remain a vital force in defending our communities and upholding justice.

  • Meet the FBIas Newest Class of Crisis Response Canines

    Meet the FBI’s Newest Class of Crisis Response Canines

    June 13, 2025

    The FBI’s Victim Services Division has welcomed two new recruits: yellow English Labradors named Taz and Peg. Taz and Peg join the FBI family as certified crisis response canines (CRCs). These dogs are specially trained to support victims of crime and foster trust among impacted communities. CRCs also help victims find the courage and confidence to share their experiences in sensitive settings, such as investigative interviews and on the witness stand in court.

  • Justice for Palak Patel: A Life Gone Too Soon

    Justice for Palak Patel: A Life Gone Too Soon

    May 30, 2025

    Palak Patel was 21 years old when her husband, Bhadreshkumar Chetanbhai Patel, allegedly stabbed her just before midnight on April 12, 2015. The FBI added Bhadreshkumar Patel to its Ten Most Wanted Fugitives List and is offering a reward of up to $250,000 for information leading to his arrest.

  • National Missing Childrenas Day 2025

    National Missing Children’s Day 2025

    May 23, 2025

    In recognition of National Missing Children’s Day—observed annually on May 25—the FBI reaffirms its year-round commitment to reuniting missing and kidnapped children with their families and asks the public for help in bringing them home.

  • FBI Seeks the Publicas Help in Finding Missing Children in Saipan

    FBI Seeks the Public’s Help in Finding Missing Children in Saipan

    May 23, 2025

    As the 14th anniversary of their disappearance approaches, FBI Honolulu is encouraging the public to share any information they may have about what might’ve happened to Maleina and Faloma Luhk. The field office is also reminding the public that the Bureau is offering an award of up to $25,000 for information that leads to their whereabouts.

  • Global Operation Targets Darknet Drug Trafficking

    Global Operation Targets Darknet Drug Trafficking

    May 22, 2025

    A multi-agency operation on four continents led to arrests of 270 darknet vendors, buyers, and administrators suspected of trafficking fentanyl and other illegal drugs.

  • FBI Honors Fallen Law Enforcement During National Police Week

    FBI Honors Fallen Law Enforcement During National Police Week

    May 14, 2025

    As the names of fallen law enforcement officers are read in solemn gatherings for National Police Week, the FBI paused to honor law enforcement partners who made the ultimate sacrifice.

  • Raising Awareness: Sexual Assault Aboard Aircraft

    Raising Awareness: Sexual Assault Aboard Aircraft

    April 29, 2025

    Sexual assault aboard an aircraft is a federal crime that should be reported to the flight crew and the FBI.

  • FBI-Led Operation in Nigeria Leads to Sextortion Arrests

    FBI-Led Operation in Nigeria Leads to Sextortion Arrests

    April 24, 2025

    The FBI and partners from Canada, Australia, Nigeria, and the United Kingdom conducted a first-of-its kind operation in Nigeria that resulted in arrests of 22 Nigerian subjects.

  • Celebrating 45 Years of FBI Joint Terrorism Task Forces

    Celebrating 45 Years of FBI Joint Terrorism Task Forces

    April 21, 2025

    The FBI’s New York Office in 1980 created the Bureau’s first Joint Terrorism Task Force. Today, the model that began as a local solution to a local problem has spread across the country.

  • 30th Anniversary of Oklahoma City Bombing

    30th Anniversary of Oklahoma City Bombing

    April 18, 2025

    Thirty years ago, a homegrown terrorist exploded a bomb at a federal building in Oklahoma City killing 168 people, the worst act of homegrown terrorism in the nation’s history.

  • How the FBIas Victim Services Division Supports Survivors of Crime

    How the FBI’s Victim Services Division Supports Survivors of Crime

    April 8, 2025

    Each April, during National Crime Victims’ Rights Week, the FBI and our partners come together to educate the public about resources available to victims of crime. In honor of this week’s commemoration, here’s a look at how different parts of the FBI Victim Services Division team uniquely support crime victims. 

  • FBI Recovers Money Swindled from Kansas Bank's Investors

    FBI Recovers Money Swindled from Kansas Bank's Investors

    March 26, 2025

    After the failure of a small-town bank cost investors more than $8.2 million, an FBI investigation helped victims get back nearly all their funds.

  • 75th Anniversary of the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives List

    75th Anniversary of the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives List

    March 14, 2025

    For 75 years, the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list has helped the FBI track and capture some of the most elusive and dangerous criminals in history. The list serves as a testament to the Bureau's commitment to bringing criminals, especially the most violent and dangerous offenders, to justice.

  • New FBI Director Takes Oath of Office

    New FBI Director Takes Oath of Office

    February 25, 2025

    On February 21, Kash Patel was sworn in as the ninth Director of the FBI in a ceremony in Washington, D.C. Attorney General Pamela Bondi administered the oath of office.

  • FBI Columbia Investigation Leads to Conviction in Widespread Real Estate Fraud Scheme

    FBI Columbia Investigation Leads to Conviction in Widespread Real Estate Fraud Scheme

    February 25, 2025

    A man who orchestrated a real estate fraud scheme that defrauded 40 victims of $2 million has been sentenced to more than six years in prison.

  • A Secret in South Philly

    A Secret in South Philly

    February 20, 2025

    On February 19, 2005, young couple Danielle Imbo and Richard “Rich” Petrone left a cheerful, informal get-together with friends at a Philadelphia bar and seemingly disappeared into the night, never to be seen again.

  • Operation Level-Up: How the FBI Is Saving Victims from Cryptocurrency Investment Fraud

    Operation Level-Up: How the FBI Is Saving Victims from Cryptocurrency Investment Fraud

    February 13, 2025

    Through Operation Level Up—a proactive initiative to identify and notify victims of cryptocurrency investment fraud—the FBI is trying to save victims from losing their hard-earned money.

  • FBI Jacksonville's Historic Search for Justice

    FBI Jacksonville's Historic Search for Justice

    February 11, 2025

    FBI Jacksonville's Evidence Response Team in 2020 recovered the remains of a missing Florida woman, marking the FBI's first successful landfill search for covered remains.

  • Fausto Isidro Meza-Flores Added to FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives List

    Fausto Isidro Meza-Flores Added to FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives List

    February 4, 2025

    In a video statement addressed to the public, FBI Acting Director Brian Driscoll announced that the FBI added Fausto Isidro Meza-Flores to its Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. 

  • 'Keeping America Left-of-Boom Safe'

    'Keeping America Left-of-Boom Safe'

    January 29, 2025

    WMD coordinators 'keeping America left-of-boom safe' through outreach and training with first responders, law enforcement partners, and industry leaders in their communities.

  • The FBIas Counterterrorism Division Turns 25

    The FBI’s Counterterrorism Division Turns 25

    November 21, 2024

    November 21 marks the 25th anniversary of the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division, or CTD. In the time since its creation, the division has worked to counter the constantly evolving threat of terrorism at home and abroad.

  • Online Platform Provides Current Data on Law Enforcement Suicides

    Online Platform Provides Current Data on Law Enforcement Suicides

    November 15, 2024

    An FBI database established in 2021 to help prevent law enforcement suicides and increase awareness and understanding of the occurrences is now online.

  • Help the FBI Identify John Doe 49

    Help the FBI Identify John Doe 49

    November 14, 2024

    The FBI is seeking the public’s assistance to identify an unknown male, dubbed John Doe 49, who may possess critical information about a child victim in an ongoing sexual exploitation investigation.

  • 30-Year-Old Murder Solved

    30-Year-Old Murder Solved

    November 12, 2024

    A cold case is just that—an investigation of a crime, usually a violent one, where all leads have been exhausted and the trail has gone cold. But in recent years, the use of various technologies has begun heating up many of these cold cases, uncovering new leads for investigators and providing justice for victims.

  • CJIS Division Observes a Milestone

    CJIS Division Observes a Milestone

    November 12, 2024

    The FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division was created 25 years ago as the central repository for all criminal justice information services within the Bureau.

  • Longtime Indian Country Special Agent Reflects on Essential FBI Mission

    Longtime Indian Country Special Agent Reflects on Essential FBI Mission

    October 25, 2024

    Working on Native American reservations has been described as one of the FBI's most challenging jobs, but a longtime special agent there says there’s no place he’d rather be.

  • Operation Not Forgotten Shines New Light on Indian Country Cases

    Operation Not Forgotten Shines New Light on Indian Country Cases

    October 23, 2024

    In a joint effort with BIA targeting crimes against Tribal women and children, FBI personnel deployed on 30-day rotations to Bureau field offices whose regions include Tribal lands.

  • FBI Personnel Assist in Hurricane Helene Response

    FBI Personnel Assist in Hurricane Helene Response

    October 9, 2024

    FBI personnel in communities affected by Hurricane Helene are working around the clock to support first responders and assist communities as they recover and rebuild following Hurricane Helene.

  • FBI Director Announces Chinese Botnet Disruption,A Exposes Flax Typhoon Hacker Groupas True Identity at Aspen Cyber Summit

    FBI Director Announces Chinese Botnet Disruption, Exposes Flax Typhoon Hacker Group’s True Identity at Aspen Cyber Summit

    September 18, 2024

    The FBI and our partners disrupted a Chinese botnet and freed thousands of impacted devices from its clutches, Director Christopher Wray announced September 18.

  • 2023 Cryptocurrency Fraud Report Released

    2023 Cryptocurrency Fraud Report Released

    September 10, 2024

    Losses related to cryptocurrency fraud totaled over $5.6 billion in 2023, a 45% increase in losses since 2022.

  • Highlighting Safety Measures to Protect Nation's Food Infrastructure

    Highlighting Safety Measures to Protect Nation's Food Infrastructure

    August 20, 2024

    More than 400 farmers and cybersecurity experts gathered in Nebraska recently to learn about threats to the nation’s food and biofuel pipelines and how to protect against them.

  • Ensuring Safety at Sea

    Ensuring Safety at Sea

    August 9, 2024

    While cruises promise relaxation and escape, the unfortunate reality is that serious crimes can and do happen on the high seas. The FBI, alongside its partners, works to ensure the safety of the millions of Americans traveling aboard cruise ships every year.

  • Students Get Inside Look at Life as an FBI Agent

    Students Get Inside Look at Life as an FBI Agent

    July 31, 2024

    The Cleveland Field Office’s Future Agents in Training program is a four-day introduction to the FBI for rising high school seniors in northern Ohio.

  • Meet the Cyber Action Team

    Meet the Cyber Action Team

    July 23, 2024

    This rapid response fly team can deploy across the globe within hours to respond to major cyber threats.

  • Operation Clean House: New Orleans

    Operation Clean House: New Orleans

    July 17, 2024

    On June 27, FBI New Orleans announced the results of Operation Clean House, an intelligence-driven operation conducted in partnership with federal, state, and local agencies to target the most violent individuals on the city’s streets.   

  • FBI Marks 100 Years of Fingerprints and Criminal History Records

    FBI Marks 100 Years of Fingerprints and Criminal History Records

    July 10, 2024

    Director Wray joined FBI staff, lawmakers, and dozens of retired fingerprint examiners to celebrate 100 years since the Bureau established its Identification Division in 1924.

  • Hoganas Alley Adds New Venues Reflecting Focus on Active Shooter Training

    Hogan’s Alley Adds New Venues Reflecting Focus on Active Shooter Training

    July 3, 2024

    Hogan's Alley, a mock town where the FBI trains new agents and others, recently expanded by nearly 15,000 square feet to include a new nightclub and movie theater.

  • FBI Helps Return Missing Musket to Museum of the American Revolution

    FBI Helps Return Missing Musket to Museum of the American Revolution

    July 3, 2024

    The Bureau helped return a Revolutionary War-era musket to the Philadelphia museum on July 1, 2024—more than 50 years after it was stolen from Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.

  • The Search for Ashley Summers

    The Search for Ashley Summers

    July 2, 2024

    On the 17th anniversary of Ashley Summers' disappearance, the FBI calls on the public to help bring her home.

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