Federal Agents Accused Of Bugging Steps Outside San Mateo County Courthouse
FBI agents are accused of planting concealed microphones to record conversations on the steps just outside the San Mateo County Courthouse, court documents revealed Tuesday.
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FBI agents are accused of planting concealed microphones to record conversations on the steps just outside the San Mateo County Courthouse, court documents revealed Tuesday.
The undercover FBI agent at the center of an organized crime investigation in San Francisco's Chinatown testified Tuesday that he posed as a vulgar, racist member of an East Coast crime syndicate that was involved in illegal sports betting and marijuana cultivation and needed help laundering money.
Federal and local authorities launched a series of raids early Friday in Oakland, detaining 15 known gang members and seizing drugs and guns.
A federal grand jury has indicted a disbarred lawyer and former ex-Marine on a charge of kidnaping a Vallejo woman in March, according to U.S. Attorney Benjamin Wagner.
The Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office is getting help from the FBI and retired employees to look into the nearly 100 jail complaints it has received since three deputies allegedly killed an inmate in August, a sheriff's spokesman said Thursday.
Twitter users beware: retweeting can be seen by the government as endorsements, and even evidence in criminal investigations.
As thousands of revelers start making the trek home from the Burning Man festival in Northern Nevada, newly released documents reveal the FBI spied on the event a few years ago.
This week a picture of someone resembling Mexico's notorious drug cartel kingpin "El Chapo" was posted on a Twitter page purported to belong to Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman's son.
A bomb threat phoned in to the FBI has triggered the evacuation of several terminals at Los Angeles International Airport.
A San Francisco woman and a Novato man have been arrested in a child pornography investigation that crossed state lines and international borders, San Francisco police said Friday.
Two Danville residents who authorities allege led a large-scale sex trafficking ring are each being held on $4 million bail, a Contra Costa County deputy district attorney said Wednesday.
The FBI is offering a $20,000 reward in exchange for information leading to the arrest of a man wanted in connection with a shooting in Watsonville last year that killed two people, including a 4-year-old girl, and wounded another, FBI officials said.
Just 10 Oakland police detectives work the streets every day. Now, the FBI is stepping in to help.
Federal prosecutors have asked a U.S. judge in San Francisco to seal documents in which defense attorneys for Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow claim prosecutors unfairly targeted him while avoiding a possible probe of city officials whose names surfaced in wiretaps.
Mayor Ed Lee's squeaky clean image is under fire. The mayor talked exclusively to KPIX 5 about allegations that he was the target of an undercover FBI sting.
The U.S. government is offering a $5 million reward for information leading to the capture of escaped Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.
Two animal-rights activists were arrested in Oakland and charged with terrorizing the fur industry during cross-country road trips in which they released thousands of mink from farms and vandalized the homes and businesses of industry members.
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Matthew Muller had a resume built for success — a U.S. Marine veteran, Harvard Law School graduate and member of the California bar.
The Vallejo case police originally called a hoax appears to have been a well-planned kidnapping according to new details in a FBI affidavit.
A man has been charged in connection to a bizarre Vallejo kidnapping case that authorities had once written off as a hoax.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is calling on the FBI to investigate an apparent death threat on the Twitter account said to belong to escaped Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman Loera.
A rash of attacks on fiber optic cables have happened in the Bay Area, causing disruptions with internet, phone and cable service.
The FBI on Friday arrested a man wanted in connection with a number of bank robberies in the Bay Area known as the "Clean Cut Bandit."
Oakland has been a partner city with the federal government in the Violence Reduction Network. The partnership includes FBI assistance in homicide cases, but the feds need more space to work and are paying for a new facility.
