Jerry Seper

14 charged for supporting Somali terror group

The Justice Department on Thursday unsealed four separate indictments accusing 14 people, including U.S. citizens, on terrorism charges for providing money, personnel and services to al-Shabaab.

August 5, 2010

Panthers probe heats up panel

The federal government's dismissal of voter intimidation charges against the New Black Panther Party has not only stirred debate at the national level and among various media outlets, but created a firestorm within the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, which has announced a separate investigation of the matter.

August 2, 2010

More Russia sleepers walk U.S. streets

They posed as ordinary citizens, living daily, nondescript lives in communities from Arlington, Va., to Yonkers, N.Y. They were married couples with car payments, monthly rents, and telephone and medical bills. They bought computers, gave gifts and ate occasionally in restaurants.

June 29, 2010

Feds burn ‘deep cover’ Russian spy network

Federal authorities arrested 10 people suspected of carrying out long-term "deep-cover" assignments in the U.S. for Russia that involved integrating into American society as married couples, infiltrating "policy-making circles" in Washington, and recruiting government and business sources.

June 28, 2010

Reduced overtime stymies Border Patrol

The U.S. Border Patrol has quietly reduced its current force of available agents along the U.S.-Mexico border by cutting the overtime hours they can work.

June 23, 2010

Times Square car bomb suspect pleads guilty

A naturalized U.S. citizen born in Pakistan who sought to "wreak death and destruction" with a bomb he placed in a car he parked May 1 in Times Square pleaded guilty Monday in federal court in New York.

June 21, 2010

Times Square suspect indicted in terrorist plot

A federal grand jury in New York on Thursday returned a 10-count indictment accusing Faisal Shahzad of attempting to "wreak death and destruction" with a bomb he placed May 1 in a car he parked in Times Square, the Justice Department said.

June 17, 2010

Tough sheriff kind to critters, but muzzled by animal group

The man known as "America's Toughest Sheriff" he has a secret that not many people outside Arizona know: He loves little critters, like puppies and kittens.

June 16, 2010

Simcox looking for day in court

Minuteman co-founder Chris Simcox, the focus of allegations in an Arizona divorce case that says he threatened to kill his wife, their three children and any police who came to protect them, says he will defend himself in court and "not in the court of public opinion."

June 16, 2010

Border activist in hiding from court

Chris Simcox went from lone sentry on the Arizona border to the leader of thousands of armed civilian volunteers as part of the Minuteman movement to a frequent speaker before Congress to a U.S. senatorial candidate — all in five years. Now bounty hunters are looking for him.

June 14, 2010

Border Patrol union defends deadly force

The union that represents the U.S. Border Patrol's non-supervisory personnel accused Mexico of making "baseless accusations" against an agent who fatally shot a 15-year-old illegal immigrant while under assault from violent rock throwers.

June 13, 2010

Massive bust nets suspects, drugs in 18 states

The arrest of more than 2,200 persons and seizure of 74 tons of illicit drugs in 18 states in a massive nationwide undercover investigation by federal, state and local authorities has revealed that Mexican drug smuggling organizations are well entrenched in the United States, especially along the U.S.-Mexico border.

June 10, 2010

2 suspected jihadists nabbed at JFK Airport

Two New Jersey men were arrested late Saturday night at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York as they sought to board flights to seek terror training from al Qaeda-linked jihadists in Somalia.

June 6, 2010

Feds open criminal probe of oil spill

Opening a new front in the battle to contain the worst oil spill in the nation's history, the Obama administration on Tuesday began a criminal investigation into the causes and consequences of the environmental disaster plaguing the Gulf Coast.

June 1, 2010

Justice Department lacking a WMD response

The Justice Department and other agencies within the nation's top law enforcement organization have not implemented adequate plans to respond to an attack in this country involving a weapon of mass destruction, a government report said Tuesday.

June 1, 2010

Hispanics take aim at Arizona’s law

The new Arizona immigration law has yet to take effect, but it already has galvanized Hispanic voters to become more actively involved in the political process, according to two recent telephone polls.

May 17, 2010

Hispanics take political aim at Arizona’s law

The new Arizona immigration law has yet to take effect, but it already has galvanized Hispanic voters to become more actively involved in the political process, according to two recent telephone polls.

May 17, 2010

Justice official: Black Panther polling case lacks proof

The assistant attorney general said there was "insufficient evidence" to bring a civil complaint against members of the New Black Panther Party who disrupted a Philadelphia polling place in the 2008 general elections.

May 16, 2010

Official: Black Panther case lacks proof

Assistant Attorney General Thomas E. Perez told the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights on Friday there was "insufficient evidence" to bring a civil complaint against members of the New Black Panther Party who disrupted a Philadelphia polling place in the 2008 general elections.

May 14, 2010

Ex-official said to help get drugs to U.S.

The ex-governor of the Mexican state of Quintana Roo took "millions of dollars" in bribes to order his state police to serve as armed guards for smugglers as they off-loaded and transported more than 200 tons of cocaine from Colombian speedboats that eventually found their way to the U.S., court records show.

May 11, 2010