Justin Rohrlich

If you spot Wei Sing Goh on your next flight, you might want to hide the liquor.

US Border Patrol deputy chief Scott Luck will be celebrating his retirement later this month with a private party at president Donald Trump’s lavish golf resort in Virginia, according to a flyer for the event obtained by Quartz.

The US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is concerned about its employees’ emotional well-being following the suicide of a 40-year-old officer who jumped to his death from a balcony inside the Orlando International Airport earlier this year.

If Donald Trump wasn’t the US president, his push to hold the 2020 G7 summit at his Trump National Doral golf resort in Florida would be a federal crime.

The Department of Defense (DoD) has spent more than $17 million on fuel at Scotland’s Glasgow Prestwick Airport since US president Donald Trump’s election, according to federal spending data. That’s a 100% increase from what the DoD spent at Prestwick before Trump’s election, the records show, and about $6 million more than the House Oversight and Reform Committee is now reportedly investigating as a conflict of interest and possible Constitutional violation.

The US Postal Service’s Office of Inspector General released a management alert (pdf) on Sept. 5 amid an ongoing audit of the agency’s transportation-network operations. The bulletin is focused on one specific issue that requires “immediate attention and remediation,” warned Darrell E. Benjamin, Jr., the deputy assistant inspector general for mission operations.

A Virginia man inspired by the manifestos of various mass shooters reportedly threatened to carry out an attack at the US Capitol with a hunting rifle. The alleged plan, which is detailed in previously unreported court filings reviewed by Quartz, was interrupted by federal agents after a friend of the man brought a series of disturbing Facebook messages to authorities.

Walgreens, Wegmans, and CVS said today they will prohibit customers from openly carrying guns in their stores, even in states that are among the 31 that currently allow the open carry of handguns and rifles by civilians.

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is planning to buy nearly 1,000 infant-size onesies for babies detained at several Border Patrol facilities in Texas, according to three new federal solicitations reviewed by Quartz.

Three accused human smugglers allegedly held more than 100 undocumented migrants captive on a ranch in South Texas, where they menaced them with Tasers and held guns to their heads. That’s according to federal court filings, which say the trio—US citizens Juan Carlos Barrera, Odilon Oyervides, Jr, and Isaac Villarreal—terrorized their captives for more than two weeks before one managed to escape and notify police.

As the Trump administration continues to gut environmental protections, the killing of an endangered whooping crane is still egregious enough to merit federal prosecution.

A US Border Patrol agent has agreed to resign and surrender his security clearance after being charged by the Department of Justice for physically abusing a migrant in US custody. The agent, identified in court documents as Jason Andrew McGilvray, pleaded guilty to one count of deprivation of rights under color of law.

Over the past month, US law enforcement has uncovered some 25,000 marijuana plants growing illegally within California’s national forests, according to federal court documents reviewed by Quartz. In at least one case, the illicit growers sprayed the plants with one of the most dangerous pesticides in the world. 

The Trump administration plans to open three new shelters to hold nearly 1,400 unaccompanied minors apprehended by US immigration authorities. The facilities will be located in Northern Virginia, Central Florida, and Southern California, according to a series of federal solicitations released earlier this month.

A “Do’s and Don’ts” page on the website for BeenVerified, an online public records aggregator that provides background checks and “people finder” services for a fee, says stealing someone’s identity is a “Don’t.”

This story has been updated to reflect that a charge of computer fraud filed against Shariq Shahab Hashme was later dropped. He pled guilty to wire fraud and served out his sentence. 

With crime and arrest rates at historic lows, the overall ratio of jail admissions to arrests has gone up. A quarter-century ago, when crime and arrest volumes were high, there were 70 jail admissions for every 100 arrests. Nowadays, there are 99 jail admissions for every 100 arrests, an increase of nearly 30%. Not all jail admissions are the result of arrests, since things like parole violations can land a person in jail too, but the changing ratio means contact with law enforcement has become an “expressway to jail.” That’s the takeaway from a new study by the nonprofit Vera Institute of Justice (pdf), which found that in 1994, 30 out of every 100 arrests in the US ended with a citation or summons rather than “full custody.”

An undercover sting operation spanning two continents led to the arrest of an alleged international reptile smuggler last week, who now faces charges in federal court. Prosecutors say the man had hundreds of protected freshwater turtles shipped from Florida to Hong Kong over the course of at least 18 months.

The US State Department’s hiring freeze in 2017, ordered by Rex Tillerson, its leader at the time, caused staffing shortages that “placed at risk highly classified information,” among other issues. That’s according to an Inspector General’s report released today (pdf) that lays out a broad range of deleterious impacts the freeze had on America’s diplomatic corps.

An autonomous police robot patrolling the streets of Huntington Park, California is scanning license plates, logging IP addresses, and using facial recognition technology that alerts cops to the presence of “blacklisted” passersby. Details of the contraption’s capabilities were confirmed through a Freedom of Information Act request by MuckRock, a nonprofit FOIA clearinghouse in Boston.

People have intentionally killed at least eight endangered Hawaiian monk seals on the Hawaiian island of Molokai over the past decade. So far, federal authorities have been unable to broker a peace between humans and seals in what can seem an intractable conflict over natural resources.

US taxpayers are, once again, paying thousands of dollars in rental fees for golf carts the Secret Service needs to protect Donald Trump when he hits the links. The latest charges amount to more than $78,000, taking the total spent on golf cart rentals to nearly $600,000 since Trump took office.

A new investigation by anti-corruption NGO Global Witness has discovered the apparent theft of more than $50 million in public funds from the Republic of Congo by Denis Christel “Kiki” Sassou-Nguesso, son of the country’s president, Denis Sassou-Nguesso. The resulting report alleges the younger Sassou-Nguesso, 44, laundered the money through a “complex and opaque corporate structure” spanning six European countries, the British Virgin Islands, and the US state of Delaware.

A judge in Tehran last month handed down harsh sentences to the two members of Confess, a well-regarded Iranian heavy metal duo prosecuted for making music the regime considers blasphemous. Singer and lead guitarist Nikan “Siyanor” Khosravi, 26, was given over 12 years in prison and 74 lashes for charges including “insulting the Supreme Leader and President,” “disturbing public opinion through the production of music containing anti-regime lyrics and insulting content,” and “participating in interviews with the opposition media.”