By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com There’s a sneaker and jersey store in Mansfield, Ohio that was dealing with much more than sneakers and jerseys. In fact, the feds were running the store and buying illegal guns and drugs from bad guys as part of a year-long sting operation that netted 60 arrests, the Cleveland Plain Dealer…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Tensions seem to be heating up between African authorities and the FBI, reports Afrigque en ligne. Nigerian police and the State Security Service say they feel sidelined by FBI agents’ investigation of the recent UN-building bombing in the nation’s capital Abuja. Though security and intelligence agents in Nigeria said they…
By SCOTT SHANE New York Times WASHINGTON — In what amounts to a fight over who gets to write the history of the Sept. 11 attacks and their aftermath, the Central Intelligence Agency is demanding extensive cuts from the memoir of a former F.B.I. agent who spent years near the center of the battle against…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com With the help of a prisoner, who agreed to wear a wire, the FBI on Monday busted a 73-year-old man who wanted to have a Massachusetts prosecutor killed. An affidavit by FBI agent Michael E. Dwyer said the FBI first received a letter from an inmate at the Worcester County House…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Authorities Monday night arrested ex-NBA player Javaris Crittenton at John Wayne Airport in Orange Co., Calif., on a murder charge out of Atlanta, the FBI said, according to the Atlanta Journal Constitution. Crittenton was arrested at the airport while checking in for a red eye flight from LA…
By The New York Times Editorial Page Cutting deals with criminal informants may, at times, be a necessary if unsavory part of law enforcement. But the benefits must outweigh the costs, and it is not clear the F.B.I.’s Boston office has mastered that balance. A police wiretap referred to in documents filed in a Boston…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com FBI informant Stetson Kennedy, who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan, passed away this weekend near St. Augustine, Fla., at the age of 94, reports the International Business Times. Kennedy had been in hospice care at a nearby hospital. Kennedy, using the name of a deceased uncle and former klansman, gained membership…
