By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The U.S. Secret Service is using its new armored presidential limousine in New York to shuttle President Donald Trump around this week as he attends the United Nations General Assembly meetings. The exterior armor plating of the 2018 Cadillac is reportedly eight-inches thick, with its doors weighing the same as those…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A federal grand jury in Wilmington, Del. on Wednesday indicted an officer with the U.S. Secret Service-Uniformed Division, who was assigned to the White House, on one-count of attempting to transfer obscene materials to a minor. Lee Robert Moore, 37, of Church Hill, Md., was arrested Nov. 9, and has remained…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com John Hinckley, the man who shot President Ronald Reagan in 1981, has been behaving well. The Associated Press reports that he’s behaved well in the past year when leaving his home, a psychiatric hospital in Washington, to visit his mother in nearby Virginia. AP reported that Secret Service agents trailed Hinckley…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com DETROIT — The Secret Service probably wished this little embarrassment remained a secret. Thieves made off over the weekend with a U-Haul truck parked in downtown Detroit that contained equipment for the U.S. Secret Service, which was planning a protection detail for Vice President Joe Biden, who spoke Sunday in…
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com If you’re a Secret Service agent, life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get. A Secret Service team was not shopping for chocolates at a Grand Rapids, Michigan Meijer Store recently, when things turned assorted. According to MLive, they were investigating identity theft, wire fraud and…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Elite U.S. Secret Service agents, who protect President Obama, are on a little mission across the pond. The Daily Mail in London reports that the agents are training Scotland Yard bodyguards to protect VIPS from “high-tech assassins.” The paper reported that police chiefs are worried computer hackers might infiltrate security for…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It’s good to be a Secret Service agent. Just ask ex-agent Dan Emmett, who writes in his book “Within Arm’s Reach” that attractive” women were so “intoxicated” by the “celebrity-like status” of the presidential security detail, the Examiner newspaper writes. He writes in his book that it was “paradise” for single…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Daniel Bongino, a 36-year-old U.S. Secret Service agent, who has worked protective details for President Obama and George W. Bush, has turned in his badge and gun to run as a Republican for U.S. Senate in Maryland against Democrat Ben Cardin. Bongino, who worked as a New York cop…
