by Alisa Nelson | Dec 23, 2020 | Crime / Courts, News, Politics / Govt
U.S. Attorney General William Barr announced today the results of Operation Legend, a federal anti-crime program named after a Kansas City boy who was shot and killed earlier this year. He launched the operation as an initiative in which federal law enforcement...
by Alisa Nelson | Oct 15, 2020 | Crime / Courts, News, Politics / Govt
U.S. Attorney General William Barr has announced today in St. Louis that a federal operation has led to the arrests of more than 650 suspects – 34 of which are accused of murder. The federal effort, called Operation Legend, is named after a four-year-old Kansas City...
by Ashley Byrd | Aug 20, 2020 | Crime / Courts, News
Attorney General Bill Barr traveled to Kansas City Wednesday to highlight a federal-local program to make more arrests in violent crime cases in major cities. LISTEN TO PRESS CONFERENCE (33:53) Six weeks ago, the Justice Department offered a partnership to the...
by Ashley Byrd | Aug 7, 2020 | Crime / Courts, News, Politics / Govt
Fifty federal officers from different agencies will be assisting St. Louis police to cope with the recent resurgence of violent crime. Governor Mike Parson attended the press conference in St. Louis Thursday for the extension of a program first tried in Kansas City....
