By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — With all the heat the agency has taken lately, some might not want to pretend to be a Secret Service agent. Apparently all that didn’t matter to Frederick J. Nickerson. The Washington Post reports that Nickerson posed as a Secret Service agent and “slipped past security Saturday at the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A veteran FBI agent in New Orleans has been tapped as the new police chief for the city of Mandeville, a suburb of New Orleans, the New Orleans Times-Picayune is reporting. Percy “Rick” Richard III, who has served a special agent in New Orleans since 1991, supervises 15 agents and five…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The FBI arrested two men in New York on Friday in connection with the ongoing probe into the bomb plot targeting the Big Apple that allegedly involved the Colorado airport driver, the Associated Press reported. Richard Kolko, an FBI spokesman in New York, told the Associated press that the…
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Politics as usual isn’t really good enough. It’s been almost a year since Pres. Obama took office and there’s still no clear picture as to who will be the new U.S. Attorney in Philadelphia. That should be unacceptable. By MICHAEL HINKELMAN Philadelphia Daily News PHILADELPHIA — By this date eight years ago, the then-new U.S….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Apparently GPS isn’t just for the geographically challenged anymore. The Chicago Tribune is reporting that police were able to track down three bank robbers in suburban Chicago last week, thanks to a credit-card sized GPS device that had been stuffed in with the stolen cash. The paper, referring to an FBI…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The U.S. Bureau of Prison’s website simply listed James W. von Brunn — the white supremacist charged with killing a U.S. Holocaust Museum guard in Washington last June — as “deceased”. That simple declaration marked a rather abrupt end to an ugly chapter that reminded people of the hate…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Boston FBI will be getting a little help in a suburban police corruption probe, thanks to a former cop from that department who has agreed to cooperate. Ex-Detective Arlindo Romeiro of the Stoughton Police Department pleaded guilty Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Boston to lying to FBI agents about…
