POLICE CHIEF – Full time Salary range – $63,358 to $95,036 per yr., DOQ. Full benefits, uniform allowance and command vehicle for official use only. Cripple Creek Police Department in Colorado is accepting applications for the position of Police Chief. The Police Chief is responsible for planning, organizing, directing and coordinating activities of the municipal…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The controversy over the 2001 anthrax killings isn’t likely to go away — not for a long time at least. The latest: The Associated Press reports that the widow of National Enquirer photo editor Robert Stevens, who was killed by an anthrax letter in 2001, has doubts that the lone scientist…
file photo By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Every week, as a many as three dozen people get caught by Transportation Security Administration (TSA) screeners with guns at airport checkpoints around the country. But this was different. The Associated Press reports that TSA officer Rynel B. Delacruz, 25, was arrested Monday night at Orlando International Airport after…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The U.S. Secret Service wants to upgrade its capabilities to intercept voice and data communications, according to a report by Government Security News. The publication reported that Secret Service wants to replace its current system “with a new, all-inclusive intercept platform that can collect, analyze, decode and reconstruct voice, data and…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Theodore Kaczynski, aka the “Unabomber”, is a apparently a suspect in the 1982 Tylenol poisonings that killed seven people in the Chicago area, according to media reports. Bloomberg reported that the FBI wants Kaczynski’s DNA to see if there’s any link to the Tylenol killings. Bloomberg reported that Kaczynski made the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Well, that was quick. After just 2 1/2 weeks of testimony, the prosecution in the federal retrial of ex-Gov. Rod Blagojevich is expected to rest its case on Thursday, the Chicago Sun-Times reported. The first trial took 11 weeks, most of which was taken up by the prosecution presenting it case…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Convicted right winger, New Jersey Internet shock jock Harold “Hal” Turner, who once worked as an FBI informant, claims his life is in danger now that he’s housed in federal prison in Terre Haute, Ind., with notorious prisoners, the Jersey Journal reported. “I probably won’t even see it coming,” Turner wrote…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The San Francisco Police Department becomes the second major police force in the nation in recent months to place limits on what its officers can do as members of the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF). Following Portland, Oregon’s lead, the San Francisco Chronicle reports that the San Francisco police chief…
