‘Operation Not Forgotten’ Shines New Light on Indian Country Missing Persons and Domestic Violence Cases!

This article from from the F.B.I.! “In a hidden field on a remote patch of Navajo Nation land in northwest New Mexico, an FBI special agent from Los Angeles recently unearthed new leads in a four-year-old homicide case. Around the same time, a special agent from Atlanta collected fresh crime scene evidence on a windswept prairie on indigenous territory in North Dakota. Their work—on remote Tribal lands far from their home field offices—was part of a four-month surge of resources by the FBI, the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), and Tribal law enforcement to generate new leads and bolster cases in some of the most violent crimes against Native American women and children.

Over the course of Operation Not Forgotten, which ended September 30, the FBI deployed 51 special agents, analysts, and other personnel to nearly a dozen FBI field offices whose responsibilities include vast swaths of Tribal lands—what the federal government calls Indian country. Under federal law, the FBI has primary jurisdiction to investigate major crimes on nearly 200 reservations, like murders, kidnappings, physical and sexual abuse of children, and violent assaults. During the joint operation, the FBI and its partners opened or worked on more than 300 cases, made more than 40 arrests, assisted over 440 victims and their families, and identified or recovered nine child victims. The most prevalent cases involved homicides, physical assaults, child sex abuse, and domestic violence.” Click here to read the rest of this article.

 

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