By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com From an outsider’s viewpoint, the Amish are known for their food products and beards and cultural simplicity. Now comes the FBI. Station WKYC reports that the FBI is investigating crimes in eastern Ohio involving Amish-on-Amish incidents, including beard cutting. WKYC reported that the FBI is looking into whether hate crimes are…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Jason James Savedoff had an obsession with historical documents and folks like George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. But it all seemed to center around money, not history. The 24-year-old New Yorker pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court in Baltimore to stealing historical documents from museums in Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania and…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A Connecticut man has been busted for posing as a DEA agent selling confiscated property. Local authorities alleged that Jeffrey Guadalupe, 30, of Red Oak, Conn., with posing as an agent and scamming a Bridgeport, Conn. city employee and his elderly mother out of $20,000, according to the Connecticut Post. The…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com FBI agents in Indiana have a new home. A new, $40 million, three-story, 90,000-square foot building on Indianapolis’ northeast side was dedicated Thursday, the Indianapolis Star Tribune reported. The building sits on a 14-acre site and includes a parking garage and maintenance facility. Up until now, the office has been located…
Bernard La Forest retired from ATF after heading up its offices in Kansas City, Detroit, Phoenix and Los Angeles. His column is in response to a story that appeared in ticklethewire.com on Monday about a speech Atty. Gen. Eric Holder Jr. gave in Chicago. Holder said there will be 13,000 cops laid off by year’s end,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com John Edwards may have cheated on his dying wife, but he won’t be cheated out of a criminal trial. A U.S. District Judge in North Carolina on Thursday denied a request by the two-time presidential candidate to dismiss the criminal charges against him, the Associated Press reported. Trial is set for…
Ex-FBI Mary Ellen O’Toole is the author of the new book: ” Dangerous Instincts.” By Monica Hesse Washington Post WASHINGTON — The man sitting in front of Mary Ellen O’Toole was, she says, a well-mannered guy. “He was low-key. He was nice. He didn’t swear.” He was very proud of his work, which he…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Two Congressional members are pressing Attorney Gen. Eric Holder Jr. for more information relating to the shooting death of Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agent Jaimes Zapata, who was gunned down in Mexico in February by a drug cartel known as Los Zetas. Another agent was wounded in the incident. In a…
