DETROIT – The FBI Detroit Field Office provided an update on the results it delivered in 2025.
The agency said in a press release Tuesday, Dec. 30, that its 2025 operations produced 841 arrests -- a 120% increase from 2024 -- and secured more than $1 billion in restitution for fraud victims, part of a yearlong effort to reduce violent crime, disrupt national security threats and dismantle cyber-enabled criminal networks.
The office said 75% of the arrests were tied to violent crime and gang investigations.
Investigators seized 166 firearms, more than 350 kilograms of illegal drugs and located more than 90 missing children. The field office also said it disrupted more than 200 time-sensitive, targeted threats of violence.
The FBI highlighted several cases involving national security threats and cybercrimes, including federal charges that were brought against six Chinese nationals and University of Michigan researchers accused of smuggling biological materials into the country.
Agents also disrupted a cryptocurrency exchange used to launder tens of millions of dollars stolen from victims nationwide, as well as two ISIS-inspired plots targeting locations in Michigan.
In October, three Dearborn men were arrested after allegedly planning to carry out a terrorist attack over Halloween weekend.
Two violent extremists were also arrested on charges including extortion of children and encouraging acts of violence.
FBI Detroit’s victim services specialists supported 680 victims of federal crimes in Michigan and across the country. The agency also provided investigative and crisis response assistance following two mass attacks that put Michigan in the national spotlight, including a stabbing at a Walmart in Traverse City that injured 11 people.
In August, 42-year-old Bradford James Gille was found incompetent to stand trial and is being held at the Michigan Center for Forensic Psychiatry.
The FBI also led the investigation into the September attack at the Grand Blanc Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. The suspected attacker, Thomas Jacob Sanford, was killed by police after killing four people and injuring eight others.
The field office said its results reflect close cooperation with federal, state and local partners as well as the communities it serves.