By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Weysan Dun, who has headed the FBI’s Newark office, is leaving the east coast for the Midwest where he’ll take charge of the Omaha Division, the FBI announced Monday. Dun started out with the FBI in 1982 and worked in the San Francisco, Omaha, and Chicago Divisions, where he…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Famous White House party crashers Tareq and Michaele Salahi have opened what continues to be a public relations nightmare for the U.S. Secret Service and its director Mark Sullivan. The latest is that a third uninvited guest was at the now infamous state dinner, according to media reports including…
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By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Fair to say that former Army Ranger Luke Sommer has some issues. Sommer, who is serving a 24 year sentence for masterminding a 2006 bank robbery in Washington state, pleaded guilty Monday in U.S. District Court in Seattle to trying to hire an undercover FBI agent to kill a Seattle assistant…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Burglary isn’t the wisest career path. But burglarizing an FBI agent’s home — well, that’s just downright dumb. Jeffrey Michael Drach, 20, and Justin Wesley Case, 21, were each sentenced Monday to two years in prison for the November burglary of the agent’s Yorba Linda, Calif. garage, the Orange County Register…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Washington Wizards basketball star Gilbert Arenas voluntarily met Monday afternoon with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington and D.C. police to “explain the circumstances surrounding the presence of his unloaded firearms at the Verizon Center last month,” his attorney said in a statement. Also on Monday, Areanas issued a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Chicago U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, one of the better known federal prosecutors in the nation, has traditionally grabbed headlines for going after bad guys. But this time, the 49-year-old is grabbing headlines for something far more personal: His wife Jennifer Letzkus, a Chicago teacher, gave birth to a baby boy Conor…
UPDATE (6:35 EST); The Las Vegas Sun is reporting that the gun man, Johnny Lee Wicks, was upset about losing a lawsuit against the Social Security Administration. The paper reported that he walked into the courthouse, pulled a shotgun out from underneath his jacket and opened fire. To read more details click here. By Allan…
