NCIS News

NCIS, Partners Ensure Safety at 2025 Army-Navy Game
December 14, 2025 — Long before fans and players filled M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore, Maryland, for the 126th Army-Navy Game on Dec. 13, 2025, NCIS Special Agents were already at work. In the days and weeks leading up to kickoff, teams conducted detailed threat assessments, coordinated with partner agencies, and positioned personnel to identify and address potential issues well before they reached the crowd.This year marked the third time the storied rivalry was held in the National Capital Region, following games... MORE

BALTIMORE (Dec. 13, 2025) - A Naval Criminal Investigative Service Special Agent, assigned to the Protective Services Field Office, provides close security for Honorable John C. Phelan, Secretary of the Navy, under the executive protection coverage during the 126th Army-Navy game at MT&T Stadium in Baltimore, Dec. 13, 2025. NCIS protective operations agents specialize in protective operations, and are specifically trained to anticipate dangers, plan safe escape routes, and respond instantly. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Kaitlyn E. Eads)

From the Real NCIS to the Small Screen
December 8, 2025 — Leon Carroll, Jr. turns his experience as a Special Agent into a career as technical advisor for the popular ‘NCIS’ television franchise Before Leon Carroll, Jr. offered his expertise as technical advisor for CBS’ NCIS television franchise, he spent 21 years as a real Special Agent for the Naval Criminal Investigative Service.Leon began honing the skills he would use as technical advisor for the show when he joined the United States Marine Corps in September 1970. He said he and his friends and... MORE

Retired NCIS Special Agent Leon Carroll stands in his office amongst memorabilia collected during his time with the agency.

NCIS Special Agent Afloat Program Offers Unique Perspective on Navy Operations
November 19, 2025 — No other military criminal investigative organization matches the Naval Criminal Investigative Service’s global integration and operational flexibility. When NCIS says its Special Agents are everywhere, it’s not just a reference to the agency’s 191 locations across 41 countries. It also includes Special Agents Afloat—NCIS personnel deployed at sea.Established in the early 1970s, the Special Agent Afloat program uniquely applies NCIS’ mission to support deployed units, said NCIS Special Agent... MORE

NCIS Special Agent in the foreground looking at USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75)

NCIS, Partners Announce Rescue of 122 Missing Children in Florida
November 18, 2025 — NCIS recently collaborated with federal, state, local, and non-governmental partners in Operation Home for the Holidays, a two-week youth-recovery initiative that resulted in the recovery or safe location of 122 missing or endangered children. Personnel from NCIS Resident Agency Mayport and NCIS Resident Unit Tampa participated in the U.S. Marshals Service-led joint, multi-disciplinary task force, which aimed to rapidly locate missing children at risk of human smuggling and disrupt exploitation... MORE

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NCIS Adds Three New Noses to the ESD K9 Program
August 15, 2025 — The Naval Criminal Investigative Service made progress in expanding its Electronic Storage Detection (ESD) K-9 program, and K-9 Jill has some company as the agency graduated three new K-9s on June 23, 2025.With the new additions—Wes in Jacksonville, Florida; Mac in San Diego; and Bika at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina—NCIS K-9 teams will be able to respond quicker and cover more cases and locations throughout the United States.The NCIS ESD K-9s are part of the Technical Services Field Office of... MORE

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Online RMVE networks target, exploit most vulnerable
July 18, 2025 — Children of Navy and Marine Corps families using online applications and games could be targets for recruitment or exploitation by networks promoting racially- or ethnically-motivated extremism and child sexual abuse material.Sextortion is a form of child sexual exploitation where children are threatened or blackmailed, most often with the possibility of sharing with the public nude or sexual images of them, by a person who demands additional sexual content, sexual activity or money from the... MORE

NCIS Deploys Special Agents aboard Guided-Missile Destroyers Patrolling Southern Border
July 9, 2025 — "Our Special Agents deployed onboard these ships are playing an integral role in both protecting our warfighters and enhancing the Navy’s maritime security efforts in support of the southern border operations. Their vigilance supports the warfighters’ ability to focus and fulfill their mission.” -Deputy Director Gregory Scovel SAN DIEGO –The Navy deployed two Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyers in mid-March to conduct border security objectives in... MORE

NCIS Major Case Response Team Basic Training Program Earns FLETA Accreditation
June 12, 2025 — The NCIS Major Case Response Team Basic Training Program, hosted by the Office of Forensic Support’s Pacific Forensic Training Center, has officially earned accreditation from the Federal Law Enforcement Training Accreditation Board as of May 15.The 24-hour program, conducted over three days at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, combines classroom instruction with hands-on crime scene scenarios, including mock death scenes and simulated evidence. The training is designed to... MORE

Joint Investigation Results in Indictment of Seven Individuals for Two Similar Patterns of Violent ‘Bank Juggings’
May 27, 2025 — "Those who target and exploit innocent members of the community through violence and intimidation must be held accountable for their actions. NCIS and our federal, state, and local law enforcement partners are deeply committed to thoroughly investigating those who would threaten our citizens and communities.” -Special Agent in Charge Hanna Porterfield of the NCIS Washington, D.C., Field Office BOWIE, Md. – Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown recently... MORE

Attorney General Anthony G. Brown Speaking

NCIS News Recap
May 9, 2025 — A Legacy of Service to his Country: Roy Mosteller was just a lad in high school when he decided he wanted to join the Navy. Being born and raised in Long Beach, California, he felt the Navy was the only choice for him. It was the early years of World War II. He remembers flipping through his high school yearbook and seeing that nearly a quarter of the boys he went to school with were already in the military. Determined to serve, he met with recruiters, only to be turned away because he wore... MORE