Jeff Jensen

U.S. Attorney General William Barr says a surge of federal agents into St. Louis starting in August brought down violent crime by 17%. But experts are urging caution about the claim.

Another 50 federal law enforcement agents are coming to St. Louis.“Violent crime in St. Louis is intolerable lately,” U.S. Attorney Jeff Jensen said in making the announcement Thursday. “The long-term solutions, we need to keep striving for those, but policing and law enforcement is also an important part of the solution.”

Nearly two dozen local, state and federal law enforcement agencies in the St. Louis region are getting a boost from the U.S. Department of Justice in…

Updated March 11 with not guilty plea A former St. Louis alderman has pleaded not guilty to charges that he spent campaign donations on personal…

Eric Schmitt was the first person in his immediate family to go to college — let alone get a law degree. So it’s not surprising that Schmitt said he…

For two years, Jeff Jensen has been the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri, serving as the St. Louis area’s top federal law enforcement…

Federal law enforcement officials say a three-month cooperative push to apprehend violent fugitives resulted in more than 160 arrests in the St. Louis…

Missouri’s attorney general and the federal prosecutor in St. Louis say a six-month-old initiative to reduce violent crime by boosting the number of cases…

Updated 2:20 on Monday with news of St. Louis Economic Development Partnership subpoena.A federal subpoena was issued last week seeking information about…

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