News and reports from the Department of Homeland Security.

Our nation is a melting pot of diverse perspectives and backgrounds, but its origins are rooted in the First Nations, now recognized as comprising the 578 federally recognized Native Alaskan Village and American Indian Tribal governments.

S&T is piloting smoke detection sensors ahead of the 2023 wildfire season

A U.S. District Court judge sentenced a Freeburg woman to 15 months in prison after she admitted to committing bank fraud while employed by St. Teresa and St. Luke Catholic parishes in Belleville.

Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that ANTHONY RICCARDI, an owner and manager of the Connecticut insurance firm Employee Benefit Solutions LLC (“EBS”), pled guilty today in White Plains federal court to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud.

A Virginia woman has been sentenced to federal prison for her role in a cryptocurrency money laundering conspiracy in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston.

Genaro Garcia Luna, the former Secretary of Public Security in Mexico from 2006 to 2012, was convicted today by a federal jury in Brooklyn of all five counts of a superseding indictment charging him with engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise that includes six drug-related violations, international cocaine distribution conspiracy, conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine, conspiracy to import cocaine, and making false statements.

Suzgo Phiri, 35, of Washington, D.C., pleaded guilty today in District Court to conspiracy to commit bank fraud and wire fraud. The plea was accepted by U.S. District Court Judge Christopher R. Cooper who scheduled sentencing for June 13, 2023. Phiri faces a maximum possible sentence of 30 years in prison, plus possible fines and restitution.

Two men were sentenced today to over 14 years in prison combined for money laundering as part of a business email compromise (BEC) scheme.

Four individuals have been charged by federal criminal complaint for their alleged involvement in stealing mail from blue postal collection boxes in central Arkansas

News Release: WASHINGTON - On Feb. 23, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) published the results of the 2022 Biometric Technology Rally (2022 Rally). The Rally challenges industry to develop faster, more accurate, and easier to use biometric recognition capabilities to improve security and ease-of-use at security checkpoints.

The US Homeland Security Department published a four page proposed rule on Feb. 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

The US Homeland Security Department published a four page notice on Feb. 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

The US Homeland Security Department published a one page notice on Feb. 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

The US Homeland Security Department published a six page rule on Feb. 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

Release: GREENVILLE, N.C. Officials with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) announced today that it has completed installation of a computed tomography (CT) X-ray scanner in the security checkpoint at Pitt-Greenville Airport (PGV).