ATF News

Police arrested two people Wednesday for allegedly stealing dynamite from a Bethel quarry last year and say the suspects are part of a long-running burglary ring responsible for roughly 100 burglaries at homes and businesses.

Polk County detectives have seized a working moonshine still in Bartow. On Thursday, November 5, 2009, acting on an anonymous tip, Polk County Sheriff's undercover detectives served a search warrant at 7316 Thomas Jefferson Circle East in Bartow and seized a working moonshine still.

FALLS CHURCH, Va. - Fourteen people were charged Thursday with illegally purchasing 77 million contraband cigarettes from undercover agents in Virginia over the last year and smuggling the tobacco into New York.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives says the cause of Monday's two-alarm fire at Smoky Point Plaza near Arlington is undetermined.

Stafford Sheriff's Office started investigation. Bill Dubensky WFLS News Date published: 11/5/2009 Fourteen individuals were charged Thursday with allegedly paying or trading more than $8 million, nearly 40 firearms, and drugs to purchase 388,000 cartons - totalling more than 77 million contraband cigarettes - to sell in New York.

Federal and state law enforcement agencies arrested 46 people in and around New London Friday on drug trafficking and firearms charges following a nine-month investigation led by the Bureau of Alcohol, Firearms and Tobacco that included the use of court-authorized wiretaps, controlled purchases of cocaine and crack cocaine and physical ...

Federal agents arrested a La Mesa man after finding 48 guns and more than 200,000 rounds of ammunition at his house, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives announced Tuesday.

Thieves used pallets to climb on top of the building, and then one slid down a tiny air vent.

An Army Special Forces soldier has been arrested following the discovery of about 100 pounds of explosives outside his Tennessee home.

The majority of firearms come from the border states of Texas, California and Arizona.

Seelall Persaud Criminals posing as tradesmen may now look to use that route to ply their trade, according to Crime Chief Seelall Persaud.

The ATF is still offering a $5,000 reward in connection with a business burglary in Tulsa over the past weekend.

The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is helping investigate the multiple-alarm fire that gutted a floor covering store in Aberdeen.

A former Warren County inmate has been found guilty of all 11 federal charges against him, including trying to have a witness against him killed.

Mynor Guerra, 25, a citizen of Guatamala who was residing in Overland Park, Kan., pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Gary A. Fenner this morning to being an illegal alien in possession of a firearm.

Authorities have sent bones to a medical examiner to determine whether they are human after they were found during the search of a house.

Memphis, TN- On October 22, 2009, Billy Harold Johnson, 50, of Burlison, Tennessee, was sentenced by United States District Judge S. Thomas Anderson to three concurrent terms of Life in prison following his conviction by a federal jury in the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee on three counts of violating the murder ...

The news that authorities had arrested eight people in connection with a series of arsons that have plagued the city for about two years was met with relief, but it was mixed with concern that other firebugs may still be out there.

Hundreds of firefighters battled a blaze at a Puerto Rico oil storage facility Sunday that forced 1,000 residents from their homes.

The Monterey County District Attorney's Office announced today that four more defendants from the multi-agency Operation Money Train undercover sting have been sentenced.