By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Law enforcement agencies are singing the old “finders’ keepers” adage in Indiana this week. After roughly $2.5 million in cash was seized during a March drug raid, with no claimants since, Indiana U.S. Attorney Joe Hogsett said his department and several other Indiana law enforcement agencies will split the cash, Indiana…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Flair-ups continue between local and federal law enforcement over a recent ATF letter to arms dealers regarding guns and medical marijuana users. The Belgrade News reports that Montana Attorney General Steve Bullock wrote the Justice Department this week to voice his opposition to a recent ATF letter sent to guns dealers…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com After shooting at FBI agents, 30-year-old Frank Perez Jr. was arrested peacefully in a Pittsburgh suburb Tuesday, station WTAE in Pittsburgh reported. The arrest in Verona, Pa., came after a nearly three-hour standoff with agents and an Allegheny County SWAT Team, WTAE reported. “He came out on his own,” FBI Special…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com FBI agents worked through the night Tuesday near the Crow Indian Reservation in Montana, searching for the gunman suspected of killing an elderly woman, her granddaughter and her granddaughter’s boyfriend, reports Reuters. Suspect Sheldon Bernard Chase, 22, is “considered armed and extremely dangerous,” the FBI said in a statement. The shootings…
Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Charges of anti-Muslim teachings have spread beyond FBI training sessions, reports Wired.com. The tech magazine’s national security blog Danger Room has obtained a power point presentation made by an intelligence analyst working for the U.S. Attorney in the Middle District of Pennsylvania warning of a “civilizational jihad” waged in the U.S. by…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The chief spokesman for the FBI tells USA Today that he did not try to shape the outcome of the upcoming movie on J. Edgar Hoover, which is supposed to portray the legendary director as being gay. The film is set to be released next month. Spokesman Mike Kortan, an…
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Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The controversy over ATF’s Operation and Fast and Furious is roaring once again. The latest: Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), chair of the House Judiciary, asked President Obama on Tuesday to appoint a special counsel to investigate Atty. Gen. Eric Holder Jr. as to what and when he knew about the operation, the…
