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  • Pharmacist pleads guilty to healthcare fraud conspiracy

    Acting United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announced April 12, 2017, that Carlos Mazariegos, 40, of St. Petersburg, Fla., has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud. He faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison.

  • AFOSI shares forensic knowledge

    Air Force Office of Special Investigations Detachment 212 conducted a forensic science demonstration here, March 28. The detachment performed the demo for visiting foreign service members as part of a Language and Culture Exchange Program: Jordanian Junior Program, with the Jordanian Directorate of

  • MacDill airman pleads guilty to paying TRICARE kickbacks

    Acting United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announced March 30 that Nikkos Hamlett, 29, of Brandon, Fla., pled guilty to conspiracy to pay kickbacks in connection with a federal health care benefit program. He faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not

  • Time runs out on AF deserter

    It took 45 years but justice finally caught up to an Air Force deserter. On March 21, 2017 Air Force Office of Special Investigations Detachment 340 special agents from MacDill Air Force Base, Fla., informed the Marion County Sherriff’s Office they had an arrest warrant for Staff Sgt. Linley Benson

  • Dets, Italians team to combat terrorism

    Special agents from Air Force Office of Special Investigations Detachment 535, U.S. Embassy Rome, Italy joined fellow agents from AFOSI Det. 531, Aviano Air Base, Italy to host a seminar in Trieste, Italy Feb. 23 entitled “The Jihadist Terrorist Threat in Northeastern Italy: The Balkan Route.”

  • 25 EFIS forges cooperation via exchange program

    From Feb. 20 to 23, 2017, AFOSI EDet 2502, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, and members of AFOSI's 25th EFIS, Ramstein, AB, Germany, conducted the Law Enforcement Investigative Skills Exchange Program, the first-ever OSI strategic engagement in the West African country

  • Teamwork, liaison bring sexual predator to justice

    The Air Force Office of Special Investigations prides itself on its ability to collaborate with fellow law enforcement agencies to combat crime. Nowhere does that inter-agency cooperation manifest itself more than outside the continental United States.

  • Beale AFB dedicates building to Fallen SA

    Although Fallen Special Agent Michael A. Cinco hailed from a small Texas town, his legacy will forever loom large, not only in the history of the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, but now at Beale Air Force Base, Calif.

  • OSI Team Turkey liaison officer keys outreach efforts

    From Oct. 16 to 21, Ms. Pinar Eser, Senior Turkish Liaison Officer, Air Force Office of Special Investigations Detachment 521, Ankara Turkey, assisted the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol Attaché Office, U.S. Embassy, Ankara, Turkey, as the CBP funded lead translator for the U.S. visit of Turkish