By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com David E. Gregory, 57, walked into the Chicago Community Bank at 52 East Lake Street in Chicago, Ill. at around 9:30am on Sept. 30. He handed the teller a note which said he had a gun and a bomb, and demanded money from the teller’s drawer. Gregory walked out of the…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A 62-year-old Tennessee man left two messages on the voicemail of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) on the evening of Oct. 27, saying he was going to destroy Cantor, rape his daughter and kill his wife, the FBI reported in a press release. Glendon Swift of Lenoir City, Tenn., was…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The feds got their conviction on Tuesday in New York against attorney Louis Cherico for mortgage fraud. But the case was not without embarrassment in what Gang Land News described as “Keystone Kops-like antics by the feds.” Jerry Capeci, editor of Gang Land News, reports that the feds and Cherico “were…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The FBI has turned to the Army for help with its counterterrorism training. After a troubled past with their understanding and interactions with Islam, reports Wired Magazine’s The Danger Room blog, the Bureau will begin working with the Army’s Combating Terrorism Center (CTC) at West Point. The center at West Point…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Call it one of the low points in policing in Spokane, Wash. A federal jury on Wednesday convicted a Spokane, Wash., police officer on civil rights and obstruction charges in the beating death of an unarmed man, the Justice Department announced. Officer Karl F. Thompson Jr., 64, was convicted on charges…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The appeals of Narseal Batiste and followers were rejected in Atlanta on Tuesday, reports the Associated Press. Batiste and four others were convicted of plotting, in conjunction with al-Qaida, to destroy the 110-story Willis Tower in Chicago and to bomb FBI offices in several cities in May of 2009. Batiste, cited…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The Transportation Security Administration is still not scanning 100 percent of the parcels on inbound international flights, and Congress wants to know why. The website NextGov.com reports that it appears TSA will miss a deadline to scan all parcels on overseas planes for the second time, and House Democrats have sent a…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) defended the ATF at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday, reports the website Main Justice, saying the real problem is lax gun laws. “The number of deaths caused by American guns are up in the tens of thousands,” she said, claiming that 70 percent of guns…
