Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Saying too many Americans are spending an excessive amount of time behind bars for drugs, the Justice Department is expected to announce a proposal today that would reduce some sentences and relieve overcrowded prisons, Reuters reports. Attorney General Eric Holder is scheduled to deliver the speech at 9 a.m. The change would…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com It’s one of the greatest fears of law enforcement: A suspect wrestles away your guy, points it at you and squeezes the triggers. It happened Wednesday to a Border Patrol agent who was attacked by an immigrant near Encino, Texas, the Monitor reports. Officials said the immigrant wrestled away the agent’s pistol…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Mark J. Mikulski, a supervisory agent at the FBI for nearly 20 years, died at the age of 50 following a fight with multiple myeloma. The Washington Post reports that Mikulski died Feb. 25 at Reston Hospital Center in Virginia. Mikulski led technology programs that detected terrorist threats. A native of Buffalo,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Most people are wise enough to know not to threaten an FBI agent with violence. Not a Pennsylvania man, who is accused of threatening to kill two Philadelphia FBI agents and their families through more than 850 e-mails sent over just four months in 2012, Philly.com reports. Justin Michael Credico has been…
