Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Nearly four decades after Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa went missing, the FBI continues to investigate tips that lead agents to dead ends. This time a local police department is investigating a tip that Hoffa may be buried underneath a driveway in Roseville, a suburb of Detroit, not far from where Hoffa disappeared,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com FBI agents are having a hard time investigating the killings of four Americans at a U.S. consulate in Libya because they can’t get clearance from the country’s leaders to enter the city of Benghazi, CNN reports. Making matters worse, the crime scene has not been secured, according to CNN, citing sources. Libya…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The North Carolina sheriff accused of targeting Latinos in illegal arrests won’t reach a settlement with the U.S. Justice Department, his attorney said, the Associated Press reports. Alamance County Sheriff Terry Johnson did nothing wrong and his deputies never discriminated against Latinos, his attorney S.C. Kitchen told government officials Wednesday, according to…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Authorities have arrested a Kentucky man accused of running through a roadblock with three guns and plenty of ammo during a visit from President Barack Obama in Cincinnati, WLMT News 5 reports. The Sept. 17 incident happened while Obama’s motorcade passed through northern Kentucky The ATF says Kerry T. Prater has a…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The DEA has stopped investigating team doctors for the San Diego Padres and Chargers over the handling of prescription drugs to players, the USA Today reports. The investigation was part of a wider effort to track the dispensing of potentially addictive drugs to professional baseball and football athletes, the USA Today said…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com While some former federal agents are calling for the government to crack down on marijuana laws, at least one ex-DEA agent said it may be a lost cause because pot legalization is only a matter of time. In a Houston Chronicle column written by Gary Hale, former chief of intelligence of the…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI and DEA have stepped in to help investigate weapons cases after federal prosecutors in Nevada stopped working with the ATF, the Reno Gazette-Journal reports. But the newspaper said neither agency is probing firearm sales or trafficking cases, leaving the state with little protection. Gun data obtained by the Gazette-Journal shows…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Nothing yet has worked for the family of a former FBI agent missing since traveling to Iran five years ago. So the family of 64-year-old Bob Levinson, with the help of the FBI, rented billboards in Times Square and subway entrances near the United Nations with an urgent plea to the visiting…
