By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com. People looking for love online are targeted for Internet fraud more than anyone else, the FBI revealed in its annual online fraud report. The Internet Crime Complaint Center, or IC3, said romance confidence scams cost victims an average of $14,214. Although men are slightly more likely to be victimized by Internet…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com President Obama’s decision to join Twitter unleashed a torrent of hateful, even threatening tweets that have already caught the attention of the Secret Service. Not only that, the White House is archiving every response to @POTUS, the Washington Post reports. So the newspaper kindly reminds readers to be wise when tweeting…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The ATF is not equipped to handle gun violence and should be merged with the FBI to reduce firearms crime, according to a liberal think tank with strong ties to President Obama, the Washington Post reports. The Center of American Progress provided a 182-page report that argued the ATF is hamstrung…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Border Patrol agent was justified when he fatally shot a 20-year-old Canadian who crossed the border illegally in March and sprayed the agent with bear spray, the Associated Press reports. Whatcom County Prosecutor Dave McEachran said the agent did everything he could to avoid a fatal encounter with Jamison Edward…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The bust was so big that federal authorities are already calling it the largest seizure of heroin in New York City history. The DEA helped nab a pair of suspected Bronx drug traffickers in what turned out to be the largest seizure of heroin in the city’s history, NBC New York…
