In a criminal complaint unsealed this week, the feds charged Eric Esquivel, 41, for possessing a firearm after being convicted of a felony.
Investigators are seeking to interview law enforcement officials in connection with the FBI search of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate as part of a Florida-based inquiry aiming to establish a conspiracy against the Republican president.
A U.S. judge has blocked plans to move the FBI's headquarters to a federal office building in Washington.
Federal investigators say a Taylor man used the Kik messaging app to send and receive child sexually abusive material (CSAM) and kept dozens of images and videos in a password-protected folder called “Shhh” on his phone, according to FBI Detroit.
FBI Detroit announced it has added Darren Anthony Robinson, 56, to the bureau’s “Most Wanted Fraudsters” list Thursday and is offering a reward of up to $150,000 for any information that leads to his arrest and conviction.
A Westland man is expected in federal court this week after investigators say an anonymous tip about blackmail on social media led the FBI to an Instagram cybertip and explicit chats with someone who identified herself as 16, the FBI said.
A Flint-area man was arrested after an FBI investigation allegedly found he attempted to arrange travel to meet minors for illegal sexual activity, according to a federal criminal complaint filed in the Eastern District of Michigan.
An association of thousands of FBI agents is backing a lawsuit filed by three bureau employees who were fired last year for their roles in an investigation into President Donald Trump’s efforts to undo the results of the 2020 presidential election.
Michigan has joined Minnesota in reporting cyberattacks on water systems but an official said all were operating “safely.”.
Authorities have released an early ransom note in the investigation into the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie in hopes that someone will recognize the writing style.
An Afghan woman accused of supporting an Islamic State-inspired attack in the U.S. on Election Day in 2024 is the first person facing deportation through the Trump administration’s use of an obscure court that remained dormant for 30 years.
The headlines about child sexual predators being caught can make it feel like the problem is suddenly everywhere. Inside the FBI’s Detroit Division, Assistant Special Agent in Charge Marty D’Amico told Local 4 the reality is a little more complicated, but in one way, more encouraging.
Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto has received a collection of repatriated cultural artifacts from FBI Director Kash Patel during a meeting in Jakarta.
FBI Director Kash Patel has met with Cambodia's prime minister to discuss how to tackle online scams targeting victims worldwide.
A Grosse Ile man is facing federal child pornography charges after investigators say an FBI search of his home uncovered evidence connected to online activity reported through Google cyber tips.
James Andrew Tallon, of Ypsilanti, distributed thousands of “horrific images and videos" depicting abuse of infants and toddlers.
The FBI is asking potential victims to come forward after a Metro Detroit businessman was charged with wire fraud in connection with an alleged investment scheme tied to a proposed sports complex development.
The FBI is offering a reward of up to $15,000 for information leading to the identification, arrest, and conviction of the person or people responsible for the death of a newborn infant whose body was discovered during the Electric Forest Music Festival in western Michigan.
The FBI is now offering a reward for information leading to the identification, arrest and conviction of anyone who was involved in the death of a newborn baby at a West Michigan music festival.
Edgardo Luis Perez, 44, evaded capture for nearly 25 years. Perez, who is accused of killing Gordon Machek, 56, of Farmington Hills back in 2001, has been arrested in Guatemala and extradited back to Michigan.
The FBI has asked its field offices across the country to dedicate more than 200 staffers to its investigation of the 2020 election in Georgia’s Fulton County.
The Supreme Court has declined to intervene after a judge ordered former Fox News reporter Catherine Herridge to be fined $800 a day.
The FBI has discounted some of the ransom notes that surfaced after the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie as extortion attempts.
New UFO files have been released by the Trump administration that include several vivid descriptions of mysterious sightings in the sky.
The FBI has seized more than a dozen websites that officials say were part of a Chinese effort to target American workers who have access to classified or sensitive government information.
Federal authorities served a search warrant on Wednesday at a Southern California aerospace facility where a chemical tank overheated last month, forcing 50,000 residents to evacuate because authorities feared an explosion.
Fans who hear the whirring sound of a drone over a stadium might see it as a nuisance but law enforcement has long viewed those aircraft as a potential weapon of mass destruction.
The upcoming World Cup will feature 48 teams and 104 matches across the United, Mexico, and Canada.
Several FBI analysts tied to the creation of a 2023 memo warning of a potential threat from Catholic “violent extremists” were told Friday that they were being fired, the latest wave of terminations under the leadership of Director Kash Patel.
The 48-year-old has previous convictions for making threats toward former U.S. President George W. Bush and former U.S. District Judge Susan Oki Mollway.
Police say a man held 10 people hostage inside a California office building before the FBI shot and killed him, bringing a more than 15-hour standoff to an end.
Two scientists at a U.S. government lab have been charged with smuggling vials of deactivated mpox virus into the country from Africa without permits and lying about it to investigators.
A former FBI special agent has pleaded guilty in Detroit to defrauding investors in a foreign currency trading scheme and agreed to pay more than $576,000 in restitution to victims.
A former Metro Detroit doctor pleaded guilty Wednesday to a federal child pornography charge stemming from a multi-state investigation into the sexual exploitation of children.
A former Metro Detroit doctor pleaded guilty Wednesday to a federal child pornography charge stemming from a multi-state investigation into the sexual exploitation of children.
A former Metro Detroit doctor pleaded guilty Wednesday to a federal child pornography charge stemming from a multi-state investigation into the sexual exploitation of children.
The FBI is offering a $200,000 reward for information leading to the capture of a former U.S. Air Force counterintelligence specialist who defected to Iran in 2013.
A Michigan man was trying to hide and destroy evidence while federal officials were searching his home, authorities said.
Federal prosecutors are seeking to revoke the U.S. citizenship of Manuel Rocha, a former diplomat who served as a secret agent for Cuba.
A woman is accused of threatening to kill a Detroit federal judge, a prosecutor and an FBI agent connected to the prosecution of church leader David E. Taylor, 53. She also sent an email to Local 4, with references to the same judge.
The FBI says the man who killed three people and wounded more than a dozen others in a mass shooting at a downtown Austin, Texas, bar in March acted alone and there's no evidence he was supported or directed by a foreign terrorist group.
The leader of the Southern Poverty Law Center has pleaded not guilty on behalf of the organization to charges that the civil rights group has defrauded donors by failing to disclose that money would be paid to informants inside extremist groups.
The federal government doesn't have to return the 2020 election ballots from Georgia’s Fulton County that were seized by the FBI from a warehouse near Atlanta.
The Justice Department has agreed to return Tennessee Republican congressman Andy Ogles’ personal cellphone that was seized during an investigation into his campaign finances, signaling it's abandoning its probe into the President Donald Trump supporter.
The FBI has searched the Democratic Virginia state Senate leader’s hometown office and her neighboring cannabis shop.
A Howell man is facing federal charges for possessing and distributing child pornography, and he was allegedly trying to hide and destroy evidence while authorities were searching his home.
Authorities have determined that buckshot from the gun of the man charged with trying to storm the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in an attempt to kill President Donald Trump struck a Secret Service agent.
Federal authorities are investigating the death of a truck driver whose body was discovered in Georgia after he was last seen alive at a Florida rest stop.
Federal investigators say the man who carried out a mass shooting at Brown University and later killed a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor did not act randomly, but targeted places and people that held symbolic meaning tied to his perceived failures.
Former FBI Director James Comey has been indicted again, this time over a social media photo of seashells arranged on a beach that officials say constituted a threat against President Donald Trump.
A former FBI agent is offering the first detailed account of how investigators identified the people believed to have carried out the 1990 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist.
The New York Times says it has learned that the FBI investigated one of its reporters, Elizabeth Williamson, after she wrote about its agents being assigned to protect and transport the girlfriend of that agency's director, Kash Patel.
An aide to President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign who was the target of secret surveillance during the FBI’s Russia investigation has reached a settlement with the federal government.
A trial is underway in Virginia for an alleged Islamic State militant charged in a deadly suicide bombing at a Kabul airport during the American military’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021.
FBI Director Kash Patel has filed a $250 million lawsuit against The Atlantic magazine and its reporter Sarah Fitzpatrick, contending its article posted last week that talked about his alleged excessive drinking was a “malicious hit piece.”.
The FBI and Justice Department are scrambling to rebuild a depleted workforce after a wave of departures over the last year.
There's been a holdup on Capitol Hill in advancing the renewal of a program that lets U.S. spy agencies pore over foreigners’ calls, texts and emails.
The attorney for a man shot by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents during an enforcement stop in California says his client was arrested by the FBI after being discharged from a hospital.
FBI agents spent hours digging up a vacant lot on Detroit’s west side Monday after neighbors said contractors reported finding what they believed were human remains.
FBI agents and Detroit police are investigating a property on Detroit’s west side on Monday in a search for a missing person.
A Dearborn man is accused of being linked to thousands of possible child sex abuse files. The FBI explained how they tracked him down.
A Michigan man is accused of driving into Ohio to pick up a missing 15-year-old girl and bringing her back to a hotel, the FBI said.
A computer linked to a Dearborn man showed signs of an enormous stash of suspected child sexually abusive material: 35,002 potentially downloadable files “of investigative interest,” federal investigators said.
The attorney for a man shot by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents during an arrest in central California says his client is recovering after three surgeries for multiple gunshot wounds and that he denies being a gang member.
A federal judge ordered rapper Pooh Shiesty to remain in custody after he and eight others were accused of kidnapping three music industry professionals and robbing them at gunpoint in Texas during a contract dispute involving rapper Gucci Mane’s record label.
An uncertain ceasefire between Iran and the U.S. and Israel may do little to stop cyberattacks from hackers allied with Tehran.
A Michigan man drove from Grand Blanc, Michigan to Ohio and picked up a 15-year-old girl reported missing from her home, then brought her back across state lines to a hotel in Fenton, according to the FBI.
Federal prosecutors have accused rapper Pooh Shiesty and eight others of robbing three men at gunpoint and kidnapping them in Texas following a contract dispute in January involving rapper Gucci Mane’s record label.
Most video doorbells store footage on cloud-based servers managed by the manufacturer, often requiring a monthly subscription to save and review recordings. Without a subscription, footage may be stored temporarily before being deleted.
The man who drove a truck into Temple Israel on March 12 spent days before the attack searching online for Jewish gathering places, weapons accessories, and upcoming events at the synagogue, then tried to delete the evidence.
A man accused of making a bomb threat aboard a commercial flight, forcing an emergency landing at Detroit Metropolitan Airport, has been charged in federal court, authorities said.
The FBI has released a timeline of the March 12 attack on Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, detailing the attacker's actions, social media posts and search history before targeting the synagogue.
Three fired FBI agents have sued to try to get their jobs back, saying in a class action lawsuit they were illegally punished for their participation in an investigation into President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn his 2020 election defeat.
Lawyers for Rep. Eric Swalwell are demanding that FBI Director Kash Patel immediately end any effort to release decade-old files from an investigation involving the California Democrat and a suspected Chinese spy that resulted in no criminal charges.
Federal investigators say the March 12 attack at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield Township was a Hezbollah-inspired act of terrorism aimed at Michigan’s Jewish community.
The FBI says a man with an assault-style rifle who crashed his pickup truck into a Detroit-area synagogue earlier in March was carrying out an attack inspired by the militant group Hezbollah and was seeking to kill many Jewish people.
A pro-Iranian hacking group is claiming to have hacked an account of FBI Director Kash Patel and has posted online what appear to be years-old photographs of him, along with a work resume and other personal documents.
A federal judge is weighing a demand by Georgia's Fulton County that the FBI return 2020 election ballots and records that were seized from an Atlanta-area warehouse.
Jewish and Muslim communities in the United States observed some of the most sacred holidays of their respective religions despite increased security measures and concerns over hateful rhetoric as the war in the Middle East continues.
A Ferndale man is accused of sending nearly 20 child pornography videos and receiving at least two in an online text exchange, according to a criminal complaint.
The former counterterrorism director who resigned this week in protest of the Iran war is denying allegations that he improperly shared classified information.
One week after Temple Israel in West Bloomfield was attacked, local leaders are calling for unity and proactive action against hate.