By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Secret Service agent Daniel Valencia’s drunken driving ordeal in Iowa has come to an end. The WCF Courier reports that Vaencia, who had gone to Decorah, Iowa ahead of President Obama’s visit last year, was sentenced Friday to two days in jail, but credited with time served. He was off-duty when…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Muslim civil rights group, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), is none too happy with the Portland FBI. The Associated Press reports that the group wants the Justice Department to investigate the behavior of the Portland FBI, which has barred two Libyan-Americans from returning to the U.S. AP reports that…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The man who tried to assassinate president Ronald Reagan “would not pose a significant risk” if given more freedom from the mental hospital he resides at, a forensic psychologist testified Tuesday in federal court in D.C. The psychologist, Paul Montalbano. testified during the 11th day of proceedings which sought to determine how…
By Will Grant BBC News, Guadalajara Twenty seven years ago, the kidnap, torture and murder of a US Drug Enforcement Administration agent by Mexican drug traffickers sparked one of the biggest manhunts the US government has ever launched in North America. It also offered an ominous warning of things to come. The picturesque Mexican city…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agent has pleaded guilty to leaking information to relatives involved in drug trafficking, authorities said. Jovana Deas, 33, of Rio Rico, Ariz., pleaded guilty to all 21 counts against her, the FBI said in a statement on Monday. Deas was…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A Chicago cab driver pled guilty on Monday to giving money to a long-time acquaintance after learning that acquaintance was working for al Qaeda, the FBI said in a statement. Raja Lahrasib Khan, Pakistani-born but naturalized as a US citizen in 1988, was arrested in March of 2010. On Monday he pled…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Some DEA agents in the Caribbean are not too happy with the way things are. Ten Puerto Rican agents filed suit against the agency claiming they receive less pay and riskier assignments than agents sent to the island from the mainland, the Huffington Post reports. Attorney Bamily Lopez Ortiz said on Monday…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A Brooklyn cop caught up in an FBI sting pleaded guilty Monday in a smuggling case involving guns, cigarettes and slot machines, the Associated Press reported. Officer William Masso was among five NYPD cops charged in the smuggling case. Others included three retired NYPD officers and a New Jersey correction officer,…
