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Federal Bureau of Investigation Seal. The FBI is the main agency responsible for investigating federal offenses. In the United States, a federal crime or federal offense is an act that is made illegal by U.S. federal legislation enacted by both the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives and signed into law by the president.
Some 1,143 defendants were charged with federal crimes for their roles in the January 6 attack. [61] Many were charged with crimes of violence against police and with criminal conspiracy. Many others were charged with theft, obstructing an official proceeding, or illegally breaching the building. As of September 2023, at least 660 defendants ...
The average violent crime rate in the District of Columbia from 1960 through 1999 was 1,722 violent crimes per 100,000 population, [10] and violent crime, since peaking in the mid-1990s, decreased by 62.5% in the 1995–2018 period (property crime decreased 54.0% during the same period). However, violent crime is still more than twice the ...
A former Washington D.C. drug kingpin, imprisoned for the last 35 years, has been released to a residential reentry center in Nashville, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for DC announced a 35 percent reduction in violent crime on Friday, touting the success of violence interruption programs and interventions from law enforcement.
More than 500 people — some linked to transnational cartels and organized crime rings — have been charged with gun trafficking and other crimes under the landmark gun safety legislation ...
By the end of the year, 725 people had been charged with federal crimes. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] That number rose to 1,000 by the second anniversary of the attack, [ 2 ] to 1,200 by the third anniversary (three-quarters of whom had by then been found guilty) [ 4 ] [ 5 ] and to 1,500 before the fourth anniversary.
If certain procedural requirements are met by the prosecution and an “aggravating factor” is found, the court may impose a prison sentence that exceeds these normal maximums. For example: First degree murder or first degree murder while armed: A sentence exceeding 60 years. Second degree murder while armed: A sentence exceeding 40 years.