Man Threatened Ex-Girlfriends, Released Private Photos A young Virginia woman didn’t know where to turn when she experienced a relentless campaign of cyberstalking by her ex-boyfriend. She faced violent threats, release of private photos, and extortion attempts. So she called the FBI’s tip line, and the staff relayed her story to the FBI’s Richmond […]
The era of sliding drawers full of aging FBI files is drawing to a close. Millions of fingerprint cards, criminal history folders, and civil identity files that once filled rows upon rows of cabinets—and expansive warehouses—have been methodically converted into ones and zeroes. The digital conversion of more than 30 million records—and as many […]
A former Bellevue resident who set fire to a Seattle nightclub just after midnight on New Year’s 2014 pleaded guilty Friday in U.S. District Court in Seattle to arson, announced U.S. Attorney Jenny A. Durkan. Musab Mohammed Masmari, 30, was originally charged in King County Superior Court but pleaded guilty Friday to a criminal charge […]
The FBI is asking for the public’s help to identify victims of a suspected serial child predator who taught in private American schools overseas in nine different countries beginning in 1972 and whose young victims—believed to be boys between the ages of 12 and 14—may be unaware of what happened to them. William James Vahey, […]