December 2010
Weekend Series on Crime History: FBI Agent Goes Undercover With the Mob
Editors Note: I’ve run this before, but this is a fascinating story and it’s certainly worth watching if you haven’t seen it. Allan Lengel, editor, ticklethewire.com httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_QTyTiCjQ4
Since When is an Apple Pie a Federal Crime?
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Since when is an apple pie — a symbol of Americana– a federal crime? Well, a federal jury in Grand Rapids, Mi., has indicted two people for hitting Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mi.) with an apple pie during a visit to a cafe in the Michigan town of Big Rapids, Wood 8…
FBI: No Known Terrorist Plots Aimed at Times Square on New Year’s Eve
By Allan Lengel For AOL News With just hours to go before the ball drops, the FBI in New York says it knows of no credible terrorist threats involving the traditional New Year’s Eve celebration in Manhattan’s famed Times Square. “While there’s no credible threat, the FBI and NYPD, as they do every year, will…
Law Enforcement Deaths Spike in 2010
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Law enforcement fatalities — which included the recent murder of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Arizona — jumped 40 percent in 2010 compared to last year, according to preliminary data from the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund. The spike, from 160 deaths in 2010 compared to 117…
New Guidelines Make it Easier to Get on Terror Watch List
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Depending on who’s talking, the good news or the bad is that it now takes only one credible tip to put someone on the U.S. terrorist watch list. The Washington Post’s Ellen Nakashima writes that following the failed terrorist attempt last Christmas by “Underwear Bomber” Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab aboard…
FBI Probing Campaign Expenditures of Ex-Delaware Sen. Candidate Christine O’Donnell
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FBI’s John Perren Named Deputy Assist. Director of Criminal Division at Headquarters
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — John Perren, special agent in charge of the Counterterrorism Branch at the FBI Washington Field Office, is returning to headquarters to become Deputy Assistant Director of the Criminal Division. Perren’s areas of responsibility will include violent crime, drugs, organized crime and the Southwest Border Initiative. Perren, an FBI agent…