State AG: Border Patrol Agents Used Justified Deadly Force in Maine Home Shooting

Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Two border patrol agents who opened fire inside a Maine home while responding to a domestic disturbance in June were justified in using deadly force, the state Attorney General’s office said Tuesday, the Bangor Daily News reports.  Investigators said the agents, James Tierney and Chris Demanski, returned fire after the home’s 75-year-old…

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FBI Probes Dozens of Bomb Threats that Shut Down Buildings in 30 Tennessee Counties

Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is investigating a rash of telephone bomb threats to buildings in 30 counties in Tennessee, Reuters reports. Public facilities such as courthouses were shut down Tuesday following the threats. “There were no devices found,” Dayla Qualls, spokeswoman for the state Department of Safety and Homeland Security, told Reuters. Among the…

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FBI Busts Menacing Trio in Loan-Sharking Ring in Brooklyn

Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An unlikely alliance between gangsters and the mafia was discovered by the FBI during an investigation of a loan-sharking ring, the New York Post reports. The newspaper wrote that the Brooklyn-based FBI arrested purported Gambino crime family member James Ferrara, alleged Westies gang member Daniel Hanley and reputed Demon Knights motorcycle gangster…

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