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Jerry Seper was a writer for The Washington Times.

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Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, is becoming an increasing problem in Northern Virginia. (Associated Press/File)

U.S. sanctions top members of MS-13 gang

Six members of the notorious El Salvadoran gang Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, which has which has sought to expand its influence throughout the United States, including the D.C. metropolitan area, were designated Wednesday by the Treasury Department as international criminals as the government seeks to cripple the gang's growing and dangerous operations.

June 5, 2013
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Deadline set for James Cole to detail Eric Holder’s recusal

Deputy Attorney General James M. Cole has until the end of business Friday to tell a House committee how and when his boss, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., recused himself in the Justice Department's subpoena of two months of telephone records of at least 20 reporters and editors at The Associated Press.

May 30, 2013
Former Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo speaks to reporters in Guatemala City before boarding a flight to the U.S. Mr. Portillo was extradited to face charges of conspiring to launder millions of dollars embezzled from his government. He appeared before a U.S. district judge in New York on Tuesday. (Associated Press)

Ex-Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo extradited to U.S.

Former Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo has been extradited to the United States to face charges of conspiring to launder millions of dollars embezzled from his government through bank accounts in his country, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration chief Michele M. Leonhart announced Tuesday.

May 28, 2013
Alfonso Portillo (left), former president of Guatemala, speaks to the press May 24, 2013, as he is led by police to an aircraft that will fly him to the United States from Guatemala City. Portillo was extradited to the United States to face charges of laundering $70 million in Guatemalan funds through U.S. bank accounts. (Associated Press)

Former Guatemalan president in U.S. court after extradition

Former Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo has been extradited to the United States to face charges of conspiring to launder millions of dollars embezzled from his government through bank accounts in his country, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration chief Michele M. Leonhart announced Tuesday.

May 28, 2013
**FILE** Local self-defense squads watch as Mexican army soldiers enter the town of La Ruana, Michoacan, Mexico, on May 20, 2013. Residents of western Mexico towns who endured months besieged by a drug cartel are cheering the arrival of hundreds of Mexican army troops. (Associated Press)

Commander of drug cartel guilty of shooting ICE agents in Mexico

Julian Zapata Espinoza, a cell commander of the brutal Los Zetas drug cartel, pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court in the District to the killing of agent Jaime Zapata and the attempted murder of his partner during a February 2011 daylight ambush on a major highway 250 miles north of Mexico City.

May 23, 2013
** FILE ** In this May 4, 2013, police mug provided by the Orange County Corrections Department in Orlando, Fla., shows Ibragim Todashev after his arrest for aggravated battery in Orlando. Todashev, who was being questioned in Orlando by authorities in the Boston bombing probe, was fatally shot Wednesday, May 22, 2013, when he initiated a violent confrontation, FBI officials said. (AP Photo/Orange County Corrections Department)

Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s friend confessed to 2011 murders before FBI shot him

A Florida man, who was fatally shot Wednesday by an FBI agent after he reportedly attacked the agent with a knife during questioning about the Boston Marathon bombing, implicated himself and bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev in a 2011 Massachusetts triple murder, law enforcement authorities said.

May 22, 2013

Lawsuit claims IRS agents illegally seized medical records

A class-action lawsuit filed in federal court in San Diego says 15 IRS agents illegally seized the medical records of more than 10 million Americans, including California judges and their families, members of the Screen Actors Guild and Major League Baseball players.

May 21, 2013

Marshals lost track of terror suspects in witness protection

The U.S. Marshals Service lost track of two "known or suspected terrorists" being held by the federal government as part of its witness protection program, the Justice Department's office of inspector general said Thursday in a report.

May 16, 2013
**FILE** Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. (Associated Press)

Holder has memory loss at hearing about AP investigation

Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. on Wednesday described the leak about a foiled terrorist plot in Yemen to The Associated Press as a "very, very serious" matter that "put the American people at risk," but he did not remember when he recused himself from the investigation into it, did not put his recusal in writing and never told the White House.

May 15, 2013

Federal task force takes down Medicare fraud racket

Federal law enforcement authorities have arrested 89 people, including doctors and nurses, in eight cities suspected of participating in Medicare fraud schemes involving more than $223 million in false billings.

May 14, 2013
** FILE ** Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington on Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012, before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing titled "Fast & Furious: Management Failures at the Department of Justice." (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Congress to grill Attorney General Holder over search of Associated Press phone records

Members of Congress on both sides of the aisle were asking questions Wednesday about the Justice Department’s subpoena of telephone records involving editors and reporters at The Associated Press, with Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. expected to be asked about the matter during an long-scheduled hearing before the House Judiciary Committee

May 14, 2013
Attorney General Eric Holder testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington on March 6, 2013, before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing "Oversight of the U.S. Department of Justice." (Associated Press)

Justice Department seizes telephone records from Associated Press reporters

The Justice Department is not saying why it secretly seized the telephone records of reporters and editors at The Associated Press, but several people close to the department said federal authorities have focused on the news agency in an ongoing investigation into the source of leaks about a CIA operation in Yemen.

May 13, 2013

Tunisian man indicted in visa ploy to foment terrorism

Federal authorities have charged a Tunisian man with fraud in applying for a work visa to remain in the U.S. to facilitate what officials said were acts of terrorism, to develop a network of terrorists in the United States, and to use this country as a base to support the efforts of terrorists internationally.

May 9, 2013

Arrest sweep nets 345 who fail to register as sex offenders

Operation Guardian, a three-year national initiative specifically targeting the country's most dangerous noncompliant sex offenders, ended Tuesday with the arrest of 345 people who failed to register with state authorities as required by law, the U.S. Marshals Service said.

May 7, 2013
(Courtesy of the U.S. Department of Treasury)

Treasury Dept. labels Sinaloa drug cartel members as narcotic kingpins

Eight high-ranking members of the Sinaloa drug cartel, who direct drug smuggling along a 375-mile area of the U.S.-Arizona border, were named Tuesday by the Treasury Department as narcotics kingpins — which targets them for multimillion-dollar fines and severe prison sentences.

May 7, 2013