By Allan Lengel For AOL News WASHINGTON — The economy may still suck, but thieves haven’t been turning to banks in greater numbers to score cash, according to the FBI. FBI statistics released Monday show that the number of bank robberies and larcenies, burglaries and extortions of banks dropped by more than 11 percent last…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The economy may still suck, but more thieves are not turning to banks for financial relief, according to the FBI. The FBI bank robbery stats released Monday showed that the number of bank robberies, larcenies, burglaries and extortions dropped by a little over 11 percent in 2009 from 6,065…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON – Two high ranking officials at the FBI Washington field office, who were accused of cheating on an open-book FBI test, have been temporarily assigned to headquarters. The Office of Professional Responsibility, an internal investigative arm of the Justice Department, had recommended discipline against Keith Bryars, special agent in charge…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com An international manhunt resulted in the capture late last week of Jorge Torres-Puello aka Jorge Torres Orellana, who posed as an attorney for the Idaho church missionaries, who were detained in Haiti on kidnapping and abduction charges. He was wanted in El Salvador, the U.S. and Canada for crimes against children,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com At least nine people have testified in a federal grand jury in Detroit that they paid the the father of ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick tens of thousands of dollars to try and land city contracts, the Detroit Free Press reported. The paper reported that the father, Bernard Kilpatrick, ran a consulting…
