Saturday, February 2, 2013
Donald K. Anderson Jr. will be honored for his work at FBI Headquarters in April.
This is a news release from the FBI in St. Louis. It corrects information earlier reported by Patch misidentifying the Ellisville judge who has been honored. Donald K. Anderson, Jr., municipal judge for the xity of Ellisville and provisional judge for Ballwin’s municipal court, was selected by the FBI Office of Public Affairs, Community Relations Unit for the 2012 Director’s Community Leadership Award (DCLA). Judge Anderson is president of both the FBI National Citizens Academy Alumni Association and the local FBI St. Louis Citizens Academy Alumni Association. Under his leadership since 2010, the national organization grew from 13, 500 members to over 16, 000 members in 2012. Many significant initiatives were developed during Judge …
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
The FBI says Special Agent Jarrod M. Petrelli led “Operation Scorpion King” in dismantling a St. Louis area heroin trafficking ring.
According to the St. Louis division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Special Agent Jarrod M. Petrelli passed away unexpectedly while working on Dec. 6. He died just three days before his 35th birthday of natural causes, according to the FBI. Petrelli was reportedly assigned to the St. Louis area after joining the FBI in 2008. He had lived here with his family since 2009 and leaves behind a wife and three young daughters. The FBI stated in a news release that the special agent led “Operation Scorpion King” in dismantling a St. Louis area heroin trafficking ring. Following is the news release issued by the FBI Monday afternoon. FBI Special Agent (SA) Jarrod M. Petrelli was attending a law enforcement conference on gangs in Boca Raton…
Monday, November 19, 2012
The FBI is searching for this unidentified man who agents say may have information regarding the sexual exploitation of a child. Have you seen him?
The following information was provided by the St. Louis office of the FBI. The FBI is asking for help identifying the man in these photos. Agents want to locate and speak with him regarding the sexual exploitation of a child. Authorities believe the man may have visited a QT gas station, possibly one in the St. Louis area. More details can be located here on the FBI's website. The following information was provided Monday in a news release issued by the FBI. The individual of interest first came to the FBI’s attention in November of 2005, after a series of photographs surfaced on the internet depicting a prepubescent female, approximately 10 years old, posing naked in sexually explicit positions. The unknown male is pictured on a nearby …
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
St. Louis area religious leaders are asking residents to stand up against hate and discrimination of Muslims in America. Watch a clip from Wednesday's press conference from West County's Dar-Ul Islam Mosque.
In light of what some believe was an arson attack that burned down a Mosque in the outskirts of Joplin on Aug. 6, the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) in St. Louis held a press conference Wednesday to offer support to the Muslim community there and throughout America. Kirkwood resident Faizan Syed, executive director for CAIR-St. Louis, led the press conference at West County's Dar-Ul Islam Mosque, located near Manchester and Weidman roads. He said the Muslim community in Joplin has been attacked several times in the past by a minority of outer Joplin residents. This most recent attack comes after a gunman opened fire on a Milwaukee, WI area Sikh temple, killing six people. Although a motive has not yet been released, many …
Friday, July 27, 2012
The man was the IT director for Chicago-based Mastro Auctions, which allegedly defrauded customers and inflated prices, according to a recent federal indictment.
A Ballwin man was arrested Wednesday in connection with an FBI investigation of a chicago-based auction house, which was recently indicted for 16 counts of fraud. William Boehm, 63, of Ballwin, was Mastro Auctions’ director of information technology. Mastro Auctions’ owner and two executive directors were indicted earlier on fraud charges for “allegedly rigging auctions through a series of deceptive practices, including so-called ‘shill-bidding,’ designed to inflate prices paid by bidders and to protect the interests of consignors and sellers at the expense of unwitting bidders, according to an FBI press release. Boehm was charged with providing false statements to the FBI agents investigating the case. Mastro Auctions billed itself as the…
Monday, July 9, 2012
The headline sounds pretty scary, but a malware called DNSChanger could knock thousands off the Internet Monday. Here's how to make sure your computer is not one.
Monday could be D-Day for your computer, but then again, we’ve heard that before. Monday’s threat is a malware virus called DNSChanger, which threatens to lock out tens of thousands of people from Internet access. It also has the potential to search out private information. Sorry to be a source of a culture of fear, but it's better safe than sorry, right? According to the FBI, the trojan virus will divert users from legitimate ISP servers to malicious sites that will alter their Domain Namer Server, which is the unique address of your computing device. Without access to the correct DNS and DNS servers, you would not be able to access websites, send email, or use any other Internet services. A Huffington Post report citing FBI data …
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