FBI - Crime in the United States, 2011:

Crime in the United States, 2011

11/02/2012

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Mollie Halpern: The FBI’s 2011 Crime in the United States Report shows that violent crimes, such as murder and rape, dropped for the fifth year in a row. They decreased 3.8 percent when compared with 2010.
David Cuthbertson: Property crimes declined for the ninth consecutive year. They were reduced approximately .5 percent compared with 2010.
Halpern: I’m Mollie Halpern, and this is FBI, This Week. Crime in the U.S. is a statistical compilation of reported crimes voluntarily provided to the FBI by more than 18,000 law enforcement agencies nationwide. It shows what crimes were reported in specific areas. David Cuthbertson, the assistant director of the Criminal Justice Information Services, cautions against using the data to rank the safety of cities.
Cuthbertson: Many socio-economic factors go into whether a community is considered safe or not.
Halpern: The data can impact FBI resources…
Cuthbertson: Our special agents in charge in the field will use Crime in the United States to help them decide where to deploy our resources in conjunction with the already existing FBI priorities.
Halpern: For more, visit www.fbi.gov.

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FBI - "Safe Online Surfing" - Podcasts and Radio:

Safe Online Surfing

10/19/2012

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Mollie Halpern: The FBI launches a new website where students can learn about cyber safety through games, videos, and other interactive features.

Scott McMillion: It’s a fun learning environment so that they will understand the keys to keeping themselves safe as well as participating in good cyber citizenship.

Halpern: I’m Mollie Halpern of the Bureau, and this is FBI, This Week. The free web-based initiative is called Safe Online Surfing, or SOS. It teaches kids in third through eighth grades how to recognize and respond to online dangers such as cyberbullying, online predators, and identity thieves. Scott McMillion is the unit chief of Violent Crimes Against Children.

McMillion: The FBI Safe Online Surfing initiative is designed to meet all federal and state Internet safety mandates so that students and teachers can use this as part of their curriculum in the classroom.

Halpern: Schools can compete with each other on a national level. Schools with the highest scores will earn an FBI-SOS trophy. To register, visit sos.fbi.gov.

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The FBI - Investment Fraud / Wire Fraud Charges:

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Ahmed Alabadi

10/09/2012

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Mollie Halpern: An Iraqi poet used the power of his words to cheat his own people out of more than $2 million.

Philip Reed: They said their lives were completely ruined by what he did.  

Halpern: I’m Mollie Halpern of the FBI, and this is Gotcha, the Bureau’s closed case of the week. Ahmed Alabadi, a dual citizen of Iraq and the United States, persuaded about 3,000 Iraqis living in the U.S. and overseas to invest in him and his company, Fedek Group. Alabadi promised he would double their money in just eight to 10 months. Alabadi and his associates also claimed he was helping to re-build Iraq. Case Agent Philip Reed of the Detroit Division says…

Reed: They definitely used the economic condition of Iraq to tug at people’s heartstrings.

Halpern: Alabadi’s investment fraud scheme was mostly a cash-only operation—making it a challenge to track the money. Agents got a search warrant for Alabadi’s e-mail account and discovered exchanges that showed…

Reed: …that he was planning a scheme to defraud investors.

Halpern: Alabadi was sentenced to prison for nearly five years on wire fraud charges. He must also pay more than $2 million in restitution.

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FBI This Week - Laser Attacks on the Rise:

Laser Attacks on the Rise

10/05/2012

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Mollie Halpern: The number of reported laser attacks on aircrafts is soaring.

George Johnson: This is almost becoming an epidemic.

Halpern: I’m Mollie Halpern of the Bureau and this is FBI, This Week. Pointing a laser at an aircraft is called “shining.” The number of shining incidents in the U.S. this year is projected to be 3,700- compared to just 283 incidents in 2005.

A law put into effect this year makes shining a federal offense punishable by up to five years behind bars and up to $11,000 in fines per incident. George Johnson is a supervisory federal air marshal who serves as a liaison officer with the FBI…

Johnson: Aiming a laser pointer at an aircraft is dangerous and reckless, just don’t do it.

Halpern: Captain Robert Hamilton of the Air line Pilots Association International has been lased more than once. He explains why shining is so dangerous for those in the cockpit and on the ground.

Robert Hamilton: I had temporary blindness, my eyes were burning, it caused disorientation.

Halpern: For more information visit www.fbi.gov.

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FBI - Infant Abductors Using New and Violent Techniques:

Infant Abductors Using New and Violent Techniques

09/07/2012

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 Mollie Halpern: The FBI has an important message for new and expecting parents. Emerging trends show women who abduct infants are using new methods to commit their crimes.

I’m Mollie Halpern of the Bureau, and this is FBI, This Week.
The FBI is seeing an increase in infant abductions in non-hospital settings. The rise is attributed to enhanced security measures at hospitals. Intelligence Analyst Ashli-Jade Douglas with the Criminal Investigative Division says that as a result, women abductors are using more direct and sometimes violent techniques…
Ashli-Jade Douglas: In some cases with expectant mothers, they actually cut the infant out of the mother’s womb, thus killing the mother and attempting to take the infant.
Halpern: Abductors are now using social media to target pregnant and new mothers. The sites are an easier and less risky way for perpetrators to develop trusting relationships with their victims.
Douglas: We want to get the message out to these new and expectant mothers to let them know, on these social networking sites, make sure that your privacy settings are up to par.
Halpern: For more information, visit www.fbi.gov.

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FBI Forensic Accountants 08/24/2012

 

FBI Forensic Accountants

08/24/2012

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Mollie Halpern: The FBI is tackling increasingly complex financial crimes with the use of its forensic accountant program.
I’m Mollie Halpern of the Bureau, and this is FBI, This Week.
The nearly 400 forensic accountants in the Bureau collect, analyze, and investigate financial data for FBI cases. They hold advanced degrees and undergo 12 weeks of training at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia. Section Chief Timothy Gallagher of the Financial Crime Section says the forensic accountants work side-by-side with the agents.
Timothy Gallagher: They do everything an agent does except for execute arrest warrants and carry a gun.
Halpern: A Forensic Accountant Support Team—which is like a SWAT team for accountants—is dispatched from Headquarters to quickly respond to an investigation anywhere in the country.
Gallagher: They are not attached solely to white-collar crime squads. They work international terrorism cases, they work espionage cases, they work public corruption cases…we’ve had them assigned to cyber cases as well.
Halpern: For more information, visit www.fbi.gov.

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FBI - Kidnapping Case Cracked:

Kidnapping Case Cracked

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 08/16/2012

Mollie Halpern: Imagine discovering the woman you knew as your mother for 23 years was actually your kidnapper. That’s exactly what happened in the case of Nejdra Nance.
I’m Mollie Halpern of the FBI, and this is Gotcha, the Bureau’s closed case of the week.
Annugetta Pettway abducted Nance from Harlem Hospital when she was a sick 19-day-old infant in 1987. Case Agent Maria Johnson…
Maria E. Johnson: She got on a train and went to Bridgeport, Connecticut, where she raised the child as her own.
Halpern: Nance told investigators she never felt like she belonged to her family, so in 2011 she searched for missing babies on the website of National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, or NCMEC. The FBI worked with NCMEC and multiple law enforcement agencies on this case. DNA confirmed Nance was the abducted baby known as Carlina White. Pettway denied her wrongdoing at first, but later confessed to Special Agent Johnson.
Johnson: Her reasoning was that she wanted to be a mother so badly that she took the risk.
Halpern: Pettway was sentenced to 12-and-a-half years in prison for one count of kidnapping.

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FBI Seeking Info in Ripken Abduction Case:

 

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8/03/2012

Mollie Halpern: The FBI and its law enforcement partners are seeking information about the unknown man who abducted Violet Ripken, the mother of Hall of Fame infielder Cal Ripken, Jr.
I’m Mollie Halpern of the Bureau, and this is Wanted by the FBI.
Armed with a handgun, the man took the 74-year-old from her home in Aberdeen, Maryland on July 24th.
FBI spokesperson in the Bureau’s Baltimore Division Richard Wolf says the man put Ms. Ripken in the backseat of her own vehicle—a 1998 silver Lincoln Town Car.
Richard Wolf: After he abducted Ms. Ripken, he bound her and made sure that her glasses were blocked so that she could not see him.
Halpern: The man drove Ms. Ripken around the Baltimore area for about a day before he returned her home. Investigation led law enforcement to several locations, including a large retail store where the man was caught on surveillance tape.
Wolf: If anyone recognizes this individual, please call your local police or FBI with that information.
Halpern: To see the surveillance video and a composite sketch, visit www.fbi.gov.

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