FBI: Suspect in Theft of Military Weapons Is an Accused Child Rapist
The FBI believed it has solved the theft of more than a dozen military weapons from a Massachusetts armory.
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Feds Investigate Online Posting of Personal Information about U.S. Military Members
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Federal investigators are trying to determine whether an Islamic group illegally obtained personal information of 100 U.S. military members before posting it publicly. A group called the Islamic Hacking Division posted the information online, urging its “brothers residing in America” to attack, The USA Today reports. One investigator said it appears…
Army Sniper Pleads Guilty to Conspiring to Murder DEA Agent, Informant
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A former U.S. Army sniper has pleaded guilty to conspiring to murder a DEA agent and an informant. Joseph Hunter, 49, and five others were arrested in September 2013 after they were recorded plotting to kill a DEA agent and informant in Liberia for $800,000, International Business Times reports. Hunter was…
Retired DEA Agent Supervisor, Walter Flalkewicz, Dead at 86
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Walter S. “Bud” Flalkewicz, a retired DEA agent supervisor, died of a heart attack Aug. 28, the Baltimore Sun reports. Flalkewicz, who was 86, died at his grandson’s house in Florida. A former Army reserve who obtained the rank of major, Flalkewicz earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Baltimore…
FBI Faces Lawsuit in Ft. Hood Shooting
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The FBI could be in for a big legal battle — and a costly one at that — as more than 80 claimants seek damages of $750 million from the bureau, the US Army, the Justice Department and the Department of Defense for a 2009 incident at Ft. Hood that left…
FBI Turns to West Point for Counterterrorism Training
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The FBI has turned to the Army for help with its counterterrorism training. After a troubled past with their understanding and interactions with Islam, reports Wired Magazine’s The Danger Room blog, the Bureau will begin working with the Army’s Combating Terrorism Center (CTC) at West Point. The center at West Point…
James F. Yacone Who Was Portrayed in Movie “Black Hawk Down” to Head FBI’s Denver Office
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — James F. Yacone, a decorated Army combat veteran who was portrayed in the movie “Black Hawk Down”, and who last served as section chief in the Critical Incident Response Group for the FBI, has been named head of the bureau’s Denver office, the FBI and the Denver Post reported….
FBI Arrests Man in MLK Day Bomb Incident in Spokane
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI on Wednesday announced the arrest of an ex-soldier with ties to White Supremacists in connection with a bomb that was placed along the parade route at the Martin Luther King Jr. Day Unity March in Spokane, Wa., on Jan. 17. Kevin William Harpham, age 36, of Colville, Wa. was…