By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI has a mystery on its hands: Who the heck keeps shooting at buildings overnight in Northern Virginia? The latest came either late Monday or early Tuesday when authorities discovered that someone had shot at a U.S. Coast Guard recruiting center in Woodbridge, Va., the Washington Post reports. Authorities are…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Hate still burns in certain corners of the country. The Justice Department on Tuesday announced the indictment of three men on charges of burning a cross in the backyard of an African-American resident in Saldo, Ark. James Bradley Branscum, Tony Branscum, both of Salado, Ark., and Curtis Coffee of Batesville, Ark.,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Former U.S. Attorneys from the Republican party sailed to victory Tuesday in Pennsylvania, Wyoming and Arkansas in an election that appeared to be a resounding referendum on the Obama administration. Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett, a former U.S. Attorney under George H.W. Bush, won the governorship in Pennsylvania, the website Main…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A former Customs and Border Protection (CBP) inspector has been charged in Texas with drug trafficking, alien smuggling and bribery, authorities announced Tuesday. Luis Enrique Ramirez, 38, fled the United States in February 2009 and was arrested Oct. 30 at the B&M International Port of Entry as he tried to re-enter…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A Polk County police detective from Felton, Ga., was sentenced to 2 years and 6 months in prison Tuesday for interfering in a joint FBI-police probe into a chop shop in Polk County and tipping off friends about an informant in the case. Mark Howell Sparks, 40, was convicted in July…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Mark Potter, head of ATF in Philadelphia, is headed to the mothership in Washington in January to become the agency’s assistant director/chief financial officer, Office of Management. Potter, who has been with ATF for more than 23 years, has headed up the Philly office for the past 7 1/2 years. At…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Ex-California congressman Gary A. Condit,graying and looking far less youthful than he did nine years ago, took the witness stand Monday in D.C. Superior Court in the murder trial of Chandra Levy and refused to discuss his relationship with the slain intern. The Washington Post reports that he was…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The explosives used in the packages from Yemen were four times more powerful than those used by the underwear bomber, the Associated Press reports. Citing German authorities, AP reported that the two bombs contained 300 and 400 grams of the industrial explosive PETN, compared to about 80 grams used in the…
