Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The city of Joliet in Illinois could be home to a new detention center for immigrants facing deportation after residents of suburban Crete derailed a similar plan in their city, the Chicago Tribune reports. Joliet officials are considering the plan but were short on specifics. The Tribune said City Manager Tom Thanas…
(Joe Oden / Pioneer Press)The building, which hasn been used as a regular courthouse for more than 40 years, will be the site of a special event to mark the 150th anniversary of the building and Law Day, a national celebration of the rule of law and the justice system.you come to Stillwater and you…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Mildred C. Parsons, the longest working FBI employee, who retired in 2002, died on Sunday. She was 99. In June 2002, I was working at the Washington Post and I had the opportunity to interview Mildred Parsons, a sweet woman who worked as an FBI secretary in Washington for 62 years,…
By DYLAN BYERS Politico John Dodson, the special agent who blew the whistle on the Fast and Furious gunwalking scandal, is suing Time for libel, POLITICO has learned. The lawsuit comes in response to a Fortune magazine article published in June that asserted Dodson had complained about the gunwalking in part because it was his…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A 20-year-old Louisiana woman who claimed she was set on fire by racists who scrawled KKK and a racial slur on her car made up the incident, state police said Tuesday, the New York Daily News reports. Police said forensic evidence shows Sharmeka Moffitt set herself on fire on Sunday and invented…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A DEA agent left a loaded .45-caliber Glock handgun on the back of a toilet seat in the restroom of a crowded Denver International Airport, the Houston Chronicle reports. A traveler found the gun last week. The newspaper reports the gun was returned to an unidentified agent who apparently forgot the weapon….
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Border Patrol agents exchanged gunfire with a suspected smuggler on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande, the San Antonio Express-News reports. “Our agents are not going to tolerate this,” Border Patrol spokesman Henry Mendiola said Tuesday. “They’re well-trained, they’re well equipped, and they will respond to neutralize these threats.” The Friday shooting…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com George C. Venizelos, head of the FBI’s Philadelphia division, will be named assistant director in charge of the bureau’s New York field office, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports, citing anonymous sources knowledgeable of the move. A New Jersey native, the 52-year-old served as interim assistant director in charge of the New York office…
