By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Belt tightening is already being felt at the Justice Department and there’s to come, according to the Wall Street Journal. The Journal’s Devlin Barrett reports that the U.S. Marshals Service, due to funding constraints, has already shut down the Fugitive Safe Surrender Program, which successfully encouraged fugitives to turn…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A man has been arrested in Mexico in connection with the 2009 fatal stabbing in the San Diego area of his estranged wife, U.S. Protection and Border Patrol officer Maribel Arteaga, who was pregnant at the time, KTLA TV reported. Jesus “Alex” Arteaga Garcia, 29, was arrested Friday night by Mexican…
By Ken Dilanian Tribune Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — The FBI disclosed to a presidential board that it was involved in nearly 800 violations of laws, regulations or policies governing national security investigations from 2001 to 2008, but the government won’t provide details or say whether anyone was disciplined, according to a report by a privacy…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com He’s back. As serial bank robbers have done over the the many decades, the man dubbed the “Geezer Bandit” continues to frustrate the FBI and local authorities. On Friday, the “Geezer Bandit” held up his 13th bank in southern California, this time on Friday at a Bank of America branch in…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Proposed deep budget cuts could undermine some key ATF programs like “Project Gun Runner”, a signature program under the Obama administration designed to crack down on the flow of weapons to Mexico and its cartels, the Washington Post reported. The Post’s James Grimaldi and Sari Horwitz report that the…
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By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON – U.S. Park Police detectives won’t face any criminal action in connection with the fatal shooting in D.C. in 2009. The Justice Department announced Friday that it found “insufficient evidence” to pursue federal criminal civil rights charges against U.S. Park Police detectives involved in the fatal shooting of Trey Joyner,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI in Chicago has dealt with some pretty heady issues in the past few years, from international terrorism to the high-profile indictment of Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich. Now comes the case of the missing puck. The FBI’s forensics experts in Chicago have been helping to try and locate the puck…
