It would be nice if that were the case, but in my experience it just isn't so. Very few police departments have the resources or expertise to tackle complex cyb

It would be nice if that were the case, but in my experience it just isn't so. Very few police departments have the resources or expertise to tackle complex cybercrime cases, and all of the examples mentioned in the story are multi-jurisdictional. Consider that the attackers are in different countries that are beyond the reach of U.S. federal law enforcement. The machines they used to send the spam and remote into the victim systems are usually elsewhere. The money mules are and their corresponding banks are scattered across the U.S. and Europe. The victim's bank may or may not be located in the same place as the victim. And so on. Where did the crime take place? That's a monumental challenge for federal law enforcement, and frankly the local PD is just not up to it, especially when they're up to their eyeballs in fighting crimes (often violent ones) where their jurisdiction is quite clear.