By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Suffice to say, FBI agent Carlos Ortiz is in big trouble. The 48-year-old Dallas agent was arrested Wednesday for allegedly threatening to kill his estranged wife — also an FBI employee — and Robert E. Casey Jr., the head of the Dallas FBI, the Dallas Morning News reported. The paper reported…
By Allan Lengel For AOL News Forty years ago Tuesday, a van loaded with explosives rocked the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, killing one person and wounding three others — all part of a protest against the war in Vietnam. It was also the biggest domestic terrorism attack until the Oklahoma City bombing 25 years later….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A few names have surfaced as potential candidates to fill the number two spot at the Drug Enforcement Administration. Sources say the names that have popped up include Thomas M. Harrigan, chief of operations, Anthony Placido,chief of intelligence, and John P. Gilbride, head of the N.Y. DEA. The number…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The latest head of the Boston FBI hopes to accomplish what his predecessors did not: Catch fugitive mobster James “Whitey” Bulger and solve the famous 1990 Gardner Museum art heist. Richard DesLauriers said he plans to use “laser like focus” to solve the cases that will be among the top local…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com An El Paso FBI agent is headed off to prison. John Shipley, now formerly of the FBI, was sentenced Tuesday in El Paso to two years in prison for illegally selling more than $118,000 worth of guns without a license and lying to ATF agents about the sales. U.S. District Judge…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com President Nixon’s fourth Attorney General William Saxbe, a Republican maverick who was at the helm during the Watergate probe, died Tuesday at age 94, the Associated Press reported. The AP reported that he died at his home in Mechanicsburg, Ohio, outside of Columbus. Saxbe became attorney general at a tumultuous time…
