Last week, the leader of an international drug trafficking and money laundering ring operating in the Americas, Caribbean, and Europe was sentenced to serve 30 years in prison.

Last week Malaysian authorities detained Ardit Ferizi, a citizen of Kosovo, on a provisional arrest warrant alleging he provided material support to the Islamic State and was involved in the hacking and release of personally identifiable information (PII) of U.S. service members and federal employees.

In its ninth year, Operation Cross Country, the nationwide law enforcement operation in which the FBI, federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies and the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) team up to recover sexually exploited children and go after pimps and other individuals.

Twin brothers from Springfield, VA were sentenced Friday for multiple offenses, including conspiracy to  commit wire fraud, conspiracy to access a protected computer, and conspiracy to access a government computer without authorization.

One of the world’s largest fertilizer manufacturers, Mosaic Fertilizer LLC, has reached a settlement with the Justice Department and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to ensure the proper treatment, storage, and disposal of an estimated 60 billion pounds hazardous materials at six Mosaic facilities in Florida and two in Louisiana.

A U.S. Marshal-led operation in Arizona yielded 72 felony arrests last week. Named “Operation Southern Star,” the fugitive sweep spanned five days, and involved local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies, including U.S. Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the Arizona Department of Corrections–all led by the Marshals Service.

This week, Vladimir Drinkman, a Russian national who was extradited to the U.S. earlier this year, admitted his role in a worldwide hacking and data breach conspiracy that targeted major corporate networks.

The individual who served as National President of the Phantom Outlaw Motorcycle Club and a “Three-Star General” of the Vice Lords street gang has been sentenced to 35 years in prison for violent racketeering-related crimes.

A California man who, in 2014 wounded federal and state law enforcement officers in a 2014 gun battle on Bureau of Land Management (BLM) property, has been sentenced to 29 years and seven months in prison.

Since its launch 1997, Rentboy.com, a male escort advertising website, has grown into the largest online service of its kind, with the site reporting over $10 million in gross proceeds between 2010 and 2015.

Despite being in official existence for a only a few months, the Bakken Organized Crime Strike Force is already making its presence felt.

Participants in an international scheme to hack newswire services in order to trade and profit on nonpublic information about corporate earnings announcements were charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) this week.

An Israeli linked to one of that nation’s organized crime rings and who operated “a vast international criminal conspiracy engaged in drug trafficking and money laundering” was sentenced last week to 384 months in federal prison.