The family of a hostage killed in Houston during a botched rescue in 2018 will receive more than $2 million in compensation after a judge ruled an FBI agent was "grossly negligent" in the man’s death. 

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/court/2025/03/10/515666/family-awarded-2-4-million-for-fbi-agents-negligence-in-2018-hostage-response/

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Two high school students in the Houston area are in police custody and accused of plotting a "mass casualty attack" at a Spring Branch ISD campus, according to the FBI's Houston office.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/crime/2025/02/20/514395/teenage-girls-accused-of-plotting-mass-casualty-attack-on-spring-branch-isd-campus/

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Federal agents on Monday night raided a storage unit near the north Houston home of Shamsud-Din Jabbar, the man who allegedly rammed a pickup truck into a crowd in New Orleans during the early hours of New Year's Day.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/crime/2025/01/07/509962/authorities-search-north-houston-storage-unit-tied-to-alleged-new-orleans-attacker/

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Federal agents found “precursor chemicals” within the home of Shamsud-Din Jabbar, the Houston man who allegedly rammed a pickup truck into a crowd in New Orleans early New Year's Day.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/crime/2025/01/03/509651/fbi-conducts-second-search-of-houston-home-tied-to-new-orleans-attacker/

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The Federal Bureau of Investigation is offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of a person accused of vandalizing a north Houston mosque earlier this year. 

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/houston/2024/12/03/507603/fbi-sheriffs-office-searching-for-man-in-connection-to-north-houston-mosque-vandalism/

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A 28-year-old man is in custody and accused of plotting a terrorist attack in Houston, FBI officials said. The suspect admitted to planning the terror attack from his far west Houston apartment.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/criminal-justice/2024/11/14/506076/houston-terror-attack-plot-stopped-anas-said-arrested/

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A third grade teacher was among those arrested this week in the latest crackdown on drug and gun trafficking in Houston, Alamdar Hamdani, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Texas said on Thursday.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/criminal-justice/2024/08/30/498247/third-grade-teacher-among-20-arrested-in-houston-gang-operation/

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A search warrant of a Conroe home likely connected to the Lakewood Church shooting identified the suspect as 36-year-old Genesse Ivonne Moreno.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/crime/2024/02/12/477197/lakewood-church-shooting-suspect-genesse-moreno-search-warrant-conroe-house/

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Nearly three decades after former Galena Park High School cheerleader Kristie Martin was shot to death at a Houston-area park, her accused killer has been extradited from Mexico.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/crime/2023/12/15/472503/accused-killer-in-1995-shooting-death-of-houston-area-cheerleader-extradited-from-mexico/

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FBI, religious officials on high alert in Houston amid Israel-Hamas conflict, encourages congregations to ‘live lives normally’

The message to Jewish Houstonians is to be angry about what happened, while also maintaining compassion for innocent lives being lost on both sides of the war.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/religion/2023/10/19/467206/fbi-religious-officials-on-high-alert-in-houston-amid-palestine-israel-conflict-encourages-congregations-to-live-lives-normally/

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