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One year after @USAttyPirro took office, the results are undeniable:
Homicide ⬇️ 50%
Carjackings ⬇️ 60%
Robberies ⬇️ 42%
Thanks to @POTUS, law enforcement partners, and prosecutors working around the clock, we’re making D.C. safe again 🇺🇸
One year in, the Scam Center Strike Force is hitting Chinese organized crime syndicates where it hurts—disrupting industrial-scale scam compounds and protecting Americans.
Launched by @USAttyPirro in November 2025, the Strike Force has delivered results through a whole-of-government response and strong public-private collaborations:
U.S. Attorney DC retweeted
Americans are being industrially looted every year by Chinese criminal networks involved in scam centers in Southeast Asia and spreading like a cancer around the world, but we are fighting back.
- More than $1 billion in cryptocurrency seized in one year
- 500+ scam sites taken down
- Prosecutions underway
This is not just fraud. It’s an attack on American security. We will deploy every tool at our disposal to dismantle these networks and crush their criminal operations.
Yesterday, @USAttyPirro spoke at the Combating Cybercrime and Transnational Criminal Networks briefing at the Washington Foreign Press Center.
She highlighted the global reach of scam centers and the need for international cooperation to stop them, protect victims, and hold perpetrators accountable. Our Scam Center Strike Force is working with partners across borders to disrupt Chinese transnational scam networks.
U.S. Attorney DC retweeted
"This is an operation that is consistent with President Trump’s executive order to make D.C. safe and beautiful. It is, of course, part of the @HSTaskForce that brings a whole government approach to government partnership dedicated to eliminating the threats against American people." @USAttyPirro
Washington D.C. is the capital of the free world, and should serve as a shining beacon. By getting these drugs that poison our citizens out of our capital, we are making D.C. safe and beautiful again.
🚨 15 Men Charged in Superseding Indictment Targeting a Transnational Methamphetamine and GBL Trafficking Organization
Read more: justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/fifte…
Yana Leonova, 34, a Belarusian citizen most recently residing in Russia, was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court to 12 months and one day in federal prison in connection with unlawfully exporting numerous avionics and other aircraft equipment from the United States to Russia, announced @USAttyPirro.
justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/belar…
U.S. Attorney DC retweeted
We’re continuing our commitment to prosecuting the dirtbags who are flooding our streets with poison. Over the course of this investigation:
🔺 15 defendants charged
🔺 87+ kilograms of high-purity meth seized
🔺 800+ kilograms of GBL seized in the U.S.
🔺 57+ kilograms of ketamine seized
🔺 1.5 metric tons of GBL seized in South Korea — the largest domestic seizure of a controlled substance in the country’s history
Narcotics traffickers who threaten our communities can expect to face serious time in prison, just like these defendants.
Fifteen defendants are charged in a twelve-count superseding indictment unsealed today in U.S. District Court in connection with a sprawling, transnational drug trafficking organization that imported massive quantities of methamphetamine from California and gamma-butyrolactone (GBL) from South Korea for distribution in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere along the East Coast, announced @USAttyPirro.
U.S. Attorney DC retweeted
President Trump signed an Executive Order in March 2026 aiming to combat cybercrime, fraud, and predatory schemes draining Americans of their savings.
At 3pm ET, the FPC hosts a briefing w/ @USAttyPirro, @TheJusticeDept, & @FBI on these efforts.
🔗:
fpc.state.gov
🚨 1:30PM ET 🚨
@USAttyPirro will announce a superseding indictment of individuals involved in a transnational methamphetamine and GBL trafficking operation that imported massive quantities of narcotics for distribution in Washington, D.C.
WATCH LIVE HERE ⬇️
youtube.com/live/9DXKHXJTJic…
U.S. Attorney DC retweeted
Members of my office attended the Rose-Laying Ceremony at Syracuse University, held during Remembrance Week to honor the 270 lives lost—including 35 SU study abroad students and 11 people in Lockerbie, Scotland—in the 1988 Pan Am Flight 103 bombing.
We remain steadfast in our commitment to justice as we prosecute the terrorist who made the bomb responsible for this tragic attack. We will never forget.
🚨 Defendant TARGETED Homeless People to Shoot 🚨
Gerald Brevard, III, 35, of Washington, D.C., was found guilty today of bias-related hate crimes in the Superior Court for the District of Columbia, on charges stemming from the murder of 54-year-old Morgan Holmes, a homeless man and attacks on two other homeless men, in March 2022, announced @USAttyPirro. ⚖️
justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/jury-…
U.S. Attorney DC retweeted
.@USAttyPirro for @USAO_DC: "We are following through on @POTUS’s directive that we do everything we can to protect Americans from the cryptocurrency fraud that’s occurring around the country. But it is more than just occurring in the United States; it is a global epidemic, the fraud that is being created."
Today, @USAttyPirro, together with major federal law enforcement and in concert with interagency partners, announced actions taken by the Department of Justice’s Scam Center Strike Force to secure America against cyber and cryptocurrency investment scams perpetrated by Transnational Criminal Organizations (TCOs) groups.
The Strike Force announced charges against six Africa-based scammers, with connections to Southeast Asia and China, which targeted Americans with fake Nonfungible Token (NFT) investment scams.
Today, @USAttyPirro, together with major federal law enforcement and in concert with interagency partners, announced actions taken by the Department of Justice’s Scam Center Strike Force to secure America against cyber and cryptocurrency investment scams perpetrated by Transnational Criminal Organizations (TCOs) groups.
The Strike Force announced charges against six Africa-based scammers, with connections to Southeast Asia and China, which targeted Americans with fake Nonfungible Token (NFT) investment scams.
WATCH LIVE HERE ⬇️ 11AM ET
@USAttyPirro and federal officials will announce charges against Africa-based scammers tied to China who used sophisticated social-engineering tactics to lure Americans into a cross‑continent cyber investment scheme.
youtube.com/live/sdc5flFB118…
🚨 TOMORROW 🚨
Major news from the Scam Center Strike Force and our continued fight to put an end to the Chinese transnational criminals scamming Americans out of their life savings. 🇺🇸⚖️
Antonio Terry, 18, of Washington, D.C., was arrested on October 25, 2026, and charged today with first-degree murder while armed for the shooting deaths of two youths, ages 12 and 14, that occurred on April 14, 2026, announced @USAttyPirro.
justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/dc-ma…
This week, members of the USAO DC Violent Crime Working Group hosted a Violence Prevention Pop-Up event in front of the DC Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR) Kennedy Recreation Center. This multi-agency collaborative effort served as a platform for education, support, and action, aiming to empower those who live and work in this community and are advocating for safer neighborhoods.
