| One in Five International Terrorism Prosecutions in Eastern Virginia |
| (08 Aug 2016)
The Eastern District of Virginia headquartered in Alexandria leads the country in the number of international terrorism cases it prosecutes.
The recent arrest of a Metro Transit Police Department (MTPD) law enforcement officer, Nicholas Young, is but the latest example. A total of 232 out of 1,180 federal criminal prosecutions nationally for international terrorism – or one out of every five - have been filed in Eastern Virginia during the last two decades.
According to the latest case-by-case data updated through June 2016 and analyzed by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University, there have been 49 international terrorism prosecutions across the country so far this fiscal year. This number is up 35 percent over the comparable period five years ago. The most common lead charge is providing material support to foreign terrorist organizations, under Title 18 Section 2339B of the United States Code. For more details, including a national timeline of prosecutions along with statistics for each of the 90 federal judicial districts, see the report at: http://trac.syr.edu/tracreports/crim/431/In addition to the most recent figures on international terrorism prosecutions, TRAC also offers free monthly reports tracking domestic terrorism and terrorism financing prosecutions. For the latest information on these topics through June 2016 go to: http://trac.syr.edu/tracreports/terrorism/TRAC also continues to offer free monthly reports on selected government agencies such as the FBI, ATF, DHS and the IRS. TRAC's reports also monitor program categories such as immigration, drugs, weapons, and white collar crime. See: http://trac.syr.edu/tracreports/bulletins/Even more detailed criminal enforcement information for the period from FY 1986 through April 2016 is available to TRACFed subscribers via the Express and Going Deeper tools. Go to http://tracfed.syr.edu for more information. Customized reports for a specific agency, district, program, lead charge or judge are available via the TRAC Data Interpreter, either as part of a TRACFed subscription or on a per-report basis. Go to http://trac.syr.edu/interpreter to start. To keep up with TRAC, follow us on Twitter @tracreports or like us on Facebook: http://facebook.com/tracreportsTRAC is self-supporting and depends on foundation grants, individual contributions and subscription fees for the funding needed to obtain, analyze and publish the data we collect on the activities of the US Federal government. To help support TRAC's ongoing efforts, go to: http://trac.syr.edu/sponsor/ |
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