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,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Supreme Court has ruled and the FBI is responding. USA Today reports that the FBI has started cutting back on the use of GPS surveillance in wake of a Jan. 23 Supreme Court ruling which said law enforcement needs court authorization to attach a GPS to a vehicle. The paper…
By Associated Press WASHINGTON — The FBI has been paying closer attention to ‘sovereign citizen’ extremists around the country out of concerns that they will react violently when they interact with government officials. Sovereign citizens are people who reject their U.S. citizenship and don’t recognize government authority, like laws and taxes. In 2009, the FBI…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com After a two-year doping investigation that triggered plenty speculation and gossip, fed prosecutors in Los Angeles decided to end their probe into Tour de France champ Lance Armstrong without filing charges, the Los Angeles Times reported. The media relentlessly reported on the probe and the folks who appeared before the grand…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Here’s something bound to cause a stir and heighten anxiety: CNN reported Monday that a British court granted bail to a radical cleric Abu Qatada, who is accused of having links to al Qaeda. CNN reported that Abu Qatada has been imprisoned for years and has been fighting deportation to Jordan…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com An Oregon man is defending his innocence after being banned from flying back into the United States, reports FOX News. After flying to Libya, Jamal Tarhuni’s native country, to distribute medicine and supplies during the country’s recent violent revolution, the 55-year-old naturalized citizen of the US was barred from boarding a…
