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  • OSI names two Honorary Special Agents

    The Air Force Office of Special Investigations Commander Brig. Gen. Keith M. Givens announced today that two Air National Guardsmen have been made Honorary Air Force Office of Special Investigations Special Agents.On Dec. 22, the Department of Defense announced the deaths of six Airmen who were

  • DoD Identifies Air Force Casualties

    The Department of Defense announced today the deaths of six Airmen who were supporting Operation Freedom's Sentinel. They died Dec. 21 of wounds sustained when their patrol was attacked by a suicide bomber on a motorcycle near Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan.Among the six fatalities are four OSI

  • New weapons policy affords viable option

    Driven by real world needs, agents assigned to the Air Force Office of Special Investigations are now permitted to carry an approved privately owned weapon and ammunition on duty.The change brings OSI investigators in line with their counterparts at many federal, state and local law enforcement

  • Region 8 growth supports evolving space mission

    On October 1, 2015, OSI's Region 8 gained three new detachments at Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M., Dyess AFB, Texas, and Ellsworth AFB, S.D., as these installations transitioned to align under Air Force Global Strike Command. This growth, along with the recent gains of Det. 207 (Whiteman AFB, Mo.),

  • OSI stalwart reflects on Iran, career

    As Iranian nuclear deal discussions continue to make headlines, the contributing legacy of the Air Force Office of Special Investigations agents who earlier served in Iran cannot be understated.A permanent AFOSI footprint was activated in Tehran as a resident agency on July 1, 1966. It was

  • Civil settlement reached over testing procedure claims

    An environmental testing company headquartered in Dayton, New Jersey, will pay $3 million to resolve allegations that it failed to follow proper EPA methodology during some of its tests, U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman announced Dec. 3Accutest Corp., also known as Accutest Laboratories is an

  • Husband, wife given separate prison terms for three fraud schemes

    U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz sentenced Shaun Tucker, aka "Shawn Turner," and "Mark Tyler," age 50, of Keymar, Md, to eight years in prison Nov. 20 followed by three years of supervised release in connection with defrauding the United States of more than $30 million in obtaining government

  • Defense contractor president sentenced to prison for bribery conspiracy

    Christopher Houston Hensley, 57, of Yukon, Okla., was sentenced Nov. 18 to serve one year and one day in federal prison for his role in a conspiracy to bribe a public official at the Corpus Christi Army Depot. The announcement was made by Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western

  • AF NCO arrested for enticement of a minor for sex

    An Airman assigned to Patrick Air Force Base, Fla., has been arrested and charged by criminal complaint for enticement of a minor for sex.A criminal complaint is merely a formal charge that a defendant has committed one or more violations of federal criminal law, and every defendant is presumed

  • ICAC gets guilty verdict

    Another guilty verdict for Internet Crimes Against Children is now in the books, according to Air Force legal officials. The outcome stems from the ICAC courts martial, levied against Airman First Class Christopher Dean, of the 603rd Air and Space Operations Center, Ramstein Air Base, Germany.On