Leland Yee Corruption Indictment Stuns Lawmakers
On Wednesday, there is widespread shock about Leland Yee's arrest, and how much he may have been hiding.
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On Wednesday, there is widespread shock about Leland Yee's arrest, and how much he may have been hiding.
An undercover FBI agent known as "UCE 4599" in the federal criminal complaint unsealed Wednesday reveals 137 pages of evidence in a years-long investigation leading to the arrest of State Senator Leland Yee on charges related his alleged roles in money laundering, arms dealing, and his close association with suspects in a murder for hire plot.
With Democrat State Senator Leland Yee now under arrest in a federal investigation, and two other state senators taking a leave of absence earlier in March, the problems for the majority party in the California growing in Sacramento and could have larger impacts.
The series of raids across the Bay Area on Wednesday which included the arrest of State Sen. Leland Yee may be related to organized crime in the Chinese-American community in San Francisco.
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee said he was "shocked' by news of the arrest of State Sen. Leland Yee Wednesday.
State Senator Leland Yee's arrest Wednesday opens an unexpected chapter in the career of an accomplished lawmaker who has previously been targeted by accusations of wrongdoing.
Authorities said they uprooted a significant criminal enterprise Tuesday when armed FBI and swat teams raided a home in East Oakland.
The FBI believes that a suspect in the three bombings in the East Bay more than a decade ago and linked to animal rights extremist groups may be hiding out in Hawaii, an FBI spokesman said Wednesday.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is launching a task force to gather information on a series of cold case murders, including the 'Gypsy Hill Murders' that took place in the first four months of 1976 in San Mateo County.
The FBI has started a new campaign searching for a man suspected of two Bay Area bombings in 2003 who has evaded authorities for more than a decade, FBI officials said.
A California man with delusions of joining the Taliban has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for trying to blow up a bank with a car bomb he thought would go off but was actually made up of inert materials supplied by the FBI.
A violent fugitive from Montana spotted in several Bay Area cities last week was captured Friday night in Portland, Ore., an FBI spokesman said.
An Oakland police spokeswoman said Wednesday that there are many unknowns about what was reported to be a carjacking and kidnapping at the Lincoln Square Shopping Center on Tuesday afternoon.
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Officers were searching again Friday for a Berkeley native who was the first domestic terrorist added to the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorist List more than a decade after he allegedly carried out a pair of Bay Area bombings.
Federal and local law enforcement officials launched a new website aimed at using anonymous tips to capture wanted fugitives in the Bay Area and Northern California.
The FBI is seeking a woman they have dubbed the "Sports Cap Bandit," who robbed two banks in Menlo Park in October and November.
State Sen. Ron Calderon is striking back at the FBI claiming, in a file to the federal government, that the bureau purposely leaked the affidavit that he took $88,000 in bribes because he refused to take part in a federal sting operation targeting President Pro Tem Derrell Steinberg and Sen. Kevin de León.
The FBI will conduct an independent investigation of Tuesday's fatal shooting of a 13-year-old boy by a sheriff's deputy in southwest Santa Rosa, Sonoma County Sheriff Steve Freitas said Friday afternoon.
Four men who were arrested in Contra Costa County on drug charges on Tuesday made an initial appearance before a federal magistrate in Oakland on Wednesday and are due to return to court on Thursday.
Federal and local law enforcement agents conducted drug raids in four Contra Costa County locations Tuesday morning and arrested four people.
Police and the FBI Tuesday were continuing to search a northeast Petaluma home where two explosive devices "similar to" pipe bombs were found, a police lieutenant said.
A total of seven known violent criminal offenders were arrested Thursday by nine law enforcement agencies that partnered in an ongoing effort to reduce gang violence in Alameda and Contra Costa counties, Oakland police said.
Bay Area law enforcement agencies are releasing details about a sting targeting underage prostitutes last week that was part of the national, five-day Operation Cross Country headed by the FBI that ended Sunday.
