Exclusive — FBI Arrests Surged Nearly 200 Percent in 2025
Arrests by agents from the FBI surged nearly 200 percent in 2025, statistics the bureau provided exclusively to Breitbart News show.

Arrests by agents from the FBI surged nearly 200 percent in 2025, statistics the bureau provided exclusively to Breitbart News show.

A restaurant worker accused of murdering one of his coworkers — and who had been a fugitive on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list since 2017 — has been arrested in Mexico, the bureau announced Saturday.

The FBI hosted its Law Enforcement Partner Engagement Council (LEPEC), marking the first time in its history that local and state enforcement partners are being directly included as part of the bureau to discuss collaboration, information sharing, and coordination opportunities aimed at enhancing public safety.

President Donald Trump issued a demand on Truth Social for FBI Director Kash Patel to remove agents from the bureau, referencing a news report detailing the role of a former FBI official in advancing the Arctic Frost investigation targeting Trump, Republican organizations, and elected officials.

Thursday on CBS’s “The Takeout,” Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) said FBI Director Kash Patel and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem could not be trusted to run a fair investigation into the Minnesota woman fatally shot by an ICE agent in Minneapolis on Wednesday.

Line of duty deaths are down significantly among law enforcement officers in the U.S. since President Donald Trump’s return to the White House, the FBI told Breitbart News exclusively.

A young man is accused of plotting an attack at a grocery store in North Carolina on New Year’s Eve in support of Islamic terrorists.

Unearthed surveillance footage from 2015 reportedly exposes how parents have participated in fraud schemes with Minnesota daycare centers. Video shows parents dropping their children off at a facility and coming back to retrieve their kids minutes later. Another clip shows parents being handed envelopes containing what is believed to be “kickback payments” for their involvement in the scheme.

Attorney General Pam Bondi announced on Monday that 85 Somalian nationals have been charged regarding ongoing fraud taking place in Minnesota, with “more prosecutions coming.”

FBI Director Kash Patel recognized the ongoing fraud scandal unfolding in Minnesota involving childcare centers.

FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed that the agency would be shutting down the J. Edgar Hoover Building in Washington, DC, “permanently.”

Mexico’s federal security forces raided multiple properties tied to Ryan Wedding — a former Canadian Olympic snowboarder accused of becoming a billion‑dollar cartel trafficker — but the FBI Most Wanted fugitive remains at large despite a sweeping operation that uncovered drugs, weapons, and luxury assets.

Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) Deputy Director Dan Bongino confirmed that he would be leaving the agency in January, as reports swirled of his upcoming departure.

Tuesday on ABC’s “The View,” co-host Whoopi Goldberg made the earth-shattering statement that a dog would do a better job running the FBI than Director Kash Patel, adding, “none of the people in charge know what the hell they’re doing.”

A leftist extremist group was allegedly building bombs and choosing targets for New Year’s Eve terror attacks in Los Angeles, but federal officials have foiled those plans.

Evidence leading to the arrest of a suspect for planting pipe bombs at the DNC and RNC was “sitting there collecting dust” at the FBI during the four years of the Biden administration, Attorney General Pam Bondi revealed Thursday.

The nationwide homicide rate has fallen to the “lowest it has been in modern history,” FBI Director Kash Patel said this week.

FBI officials are investigating the D.C. Afghan suspect shooter Rahmanullah Lakanwal’s associates and activities in the United States.

WASHINGTON — The radical left is getting increasingly violent with President Donald Trump back in the White House, even toward federal law enforcement officers, newly released FBI data shows.

Officials with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) reportedly said Thursday the man who tried to assassinate President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, acted alone.

Federal agents in Michigan arrested multiple individuals allegedly plotting a violent attack over the Halloween weekend, according to FBI Director Kash Patel, following bureau operations Friday morning in Dearborn and Inkster.

Newly released FBI files made public by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) reveal that former Special Counsel Jack Smith issued nearly 200 subpoenas targeting Republican organizations, officials, and donors as part of a Justice Department investigation launched under the Biden administration. The disclosures have prompted congressional Republicans to call for the impeachment of U.S. District Court Chief Judge James Boasberg, who authorized related surveillance orders.

The FBI has begun arresting many violent protesters for interfering in federal immigration enforcement operations.

President Donald Trump called for an investigation into former FBI agent Walter Giardina on Wednesday, accusing him of misconduct in a Truth Social post that renewed scrutiny of the agent’s role in a series of high-profile investigations tied to Trump and former White House trade adviser and current Senior Counselor for Trade and Manufacturing Peter Navarro.

National Counterterrorism Center chief Joe Kent’s investigation into whether or not alleged Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson had assistance from “a foreign power or another entity” set off alarm bells with FBI officials, who raised concerns that Kent was “potentially interfering with the investigation and the prosecution of the suspect,” the New York Times reported Tuesday.

The FBI and local police this week took down an infamous open-air drug market in Philadelphia and crushed the criminal organization that had been supplying it for nearly a decade, authorities announced.

Consider FBI Director Kash Patel unimpressed by ESPN hot-take artist Stephen A. Smith’s take that President Trump is behind the FBI’s crackdown on illegal gambling in the NBA.

A friend of Lakers star LeBron James sold injury information about the player to members of an illegal gambling ring.

FBI Director Kash Patel went behind the microphone on Thursday and offered the first public glimpse of the massive federal law enforcement probe into an alleged mob-linked poker scheme and “sports rigging” gambling scheme that led to the arrests of 31 people, including an NBA coach and player.

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Kash Patel has claimed the agency is “on the verge” of unmasking the funding and “command structure” behind Antifa, according to a report.

FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed Sunday that the Secret Service discovered a hunting stand with a view of President Donald Trump as he disembarks Air Force One at Palm Beach International Airport in Florida.

Two alleged Antifa members were indicted by a federal grand jury this week for reportedly attacking an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Texas this past July.

Six cartel gunmen died in a shootout near the beach tourist hotspot of Ensenada, Baja California. The shootout comes just days after two cartel banners addressed to FBI Director Kash Patel warned that Sinaloa Cartel gunmen would be targeting U.S. citizens.

President Donald Trump, FBI Director Kash Patel, on Wednesday, touted the FBI’s crackdown on violent crime since the start of the administration, and Trump called for his top law enforcement officials to zone in on San Francisco.

Former Special Counsel Jack Smith delivered rare public remarks in London about the state of the U.S. justice system as congressional Republicans demand that he testify about his handling of the Trump investigations and newly uncovered surveillance of GOP lawmakers.

President Donald Trump and FBI Director Kash Patel hold a joint press conference on Wednesday, October 15.

Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) walked into an FBI briefing Monday unprepared for the shock of learning that her own government had been spying on her.

FBI Director Kash Patel has fired agents involved in tracking phone calls of eight Republican senators and a congressman as part of former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigation of President Donald Trump.

Nearly ten Republican senators and a representative had their private communications allegedly tracked by former Special Counsel Jack Smith under the Biden administration, FBI Director Kash Patel revealed Monday.

Cartel gunmen in Mexico put up two banners addressed to FBI Director Kash Patel and other officials from the U.S. and Mexico, threatening U.S. citizens living in the Cabo San Lucas and San Jose areas. The threats point to the U.S. getting involved in the cartel’s turf war in Sinaloa and Baja California.
