By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A week after a judge dismissed murder-related charges against 5 Blackwater guards who worked in Iraq, the Justice Department came back with murder charges against two former Blackwater guards who were detailed to Afghanistan. The U.S. Attorney in Alexandria filed second-degree murder and attempted murder charges on Thursday against…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Donald W. Washington, the first African American to serve as U.S. Attorney in Shreveport, La., is stepping down, effective Jan. 18. “It has been a high honor and great privilege to serve as United States Attorney, and to work alongside so many talented and dedicated professionals in service to our country…
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…
