Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A fugitive who shot at FBI agents while he was barricaded in a house his near Pittsburgh was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison Tuesday, the Associated Press reports. Frank Perez Jr. fired at least 20 shots from two pistols and a 12-gauge shotgun while an FBI SWAT team surrounded his…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Former NFL running back Michael Antwon Bennett couldn’t run away fast enough from this problem. Bennett faces up to 20 years in prison after he pleaded guilty last week to making fraudulent financial claims in order to get a $200,000 loan, the Florida Sun Sentinel reports. Bennett, 33, tried to get the…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI plans to build a new FBI regional office in metropolitan Sacramento, the Sacramento Business Journal reports. Citing officials from Roseville, where the office is to be located, the FBI settled on a 12-acre site. The office is expected to be opened in 2015. City officials said the FBI is beginning…
By Jerry Seper The Washington Times WASHINGTON — A Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) agent who blew the whistle on the botched Fast and Furious gunrunning investigation and, according to lawmakers, was threatened with losing his job has successfully resolved a retaliation claim. ATF agent Peter Forcelli settled the claim, according to…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com And as if the agent needed another reason to get a divorce. The Associated Press reports that authorities charged the husband of an FBI agent of setting her bureau car on fire with her weapons inside at their Portland, Ore. home. AP reported that authorities alleged that David Powers, 44, set…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Two Transportation Security Administration officers were indicted Tuesday on charges of conspiring and attempting to smuggle cocaine through Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta. Richard C. Cook II, 27, of Henry County, Ga. and Timothy G. Gregory, 25, of DeKalb County, Ga. were indicted by a grand jury on multiple drug counts….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Crazed gunman Jared Loughner was found competent to stand trial on Tuesday. He then immediately pleaded guilty to 19 charges in a shooting spree last year in Tucson that left six people dead including a federal judge, and 13 wounded including ex-Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Loughner murdered U.S. District Judge John Roll…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Andrew Traver, whose nomination by President Obama to head up ATF seems to have gone nowhere, is the new head of ATF’s Denver office. Before getting this new assignment he was head of the Chicago ATF. Traver began his ATF career in 1987 as a special agent in the Chicago Field…
