Update: Monday, Jan. 2 — The Associated Press reported that authorities believe they have found the body of the suspect, Benjamin Colton Barnes, 24. To read more click here. By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The search is on in the depths of the wilderness in Washington state for a man wanted in the shooting death…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A member of the US military has been charged after being detained at a Texas airport over the weekend for attempting to board a plane with explosives wrapped in military-grade wrapping, the Associated Press reports. Trey Scott Atwater was stopped by security at the Midland International Airport around 9 a.m. on…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Barbara Grohl, head of the Colorado Department of Revenue, has written a letter asking the DEA to loosen federal controls on marijuana and recognize its “potential medicinal value,” the Denver Post reports. The letter, written on Dec. 22, is the result of a law passed last year; that legislation required the…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A new leader has been named to the nation’s largest uniformed federal law enforcement agency, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, reports the website AllGov.com. David V. Aguilar has been named the head of the agency. The move came after after Senate Republicans refused to hold a hearing on President Barack Obama’s…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com An off-duty ATF agent was shot and killed Saturday afternoon in Nassau County in Long Island, N.Y. while struggling with a robbery suspect outside a pharmacy where the agent was going to pick up his father’s cancer medication, according to authorities and the Associated Press. Agent John Capano, a 23-year veteran…
