By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com With the meth problem growing, DEA’s top boss Michele M. Leonhart announced Thursday the signing of a new memorandum of cooperation between the U.S. and Mexico “to aggressively address the continuing problem” of production. In a press release, the DEA said the U.S. and Mexican officials enjoy a strong cooperative relationship…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The new chief of the budget-challenged Spokane Police Department is a former special agent with the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Inspector General, the Spokesman-Review reports. Mayor David Condon selected Frank Straub to head the police department – an appointment that must receive approval from the Spokane City Council. Straub takes over…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI and Homeland Security are warning of concerns that anarchist groups may try to use improvised explosive devices at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, NC, the Charlotte Business Journal reports. It’s unclear how real the threat is because the FBI routinely issues similar advisories ahead of major events and plans…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is consolidating two offices in Mississippi into a larger one in Oxford as part of a budget-cutting move, according to the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal. But the move – relocating Tupelo and Greenville into Oxford –won’t affect staffing, an FBI spokeswoman told the Daily Journal. “The consolidation will not affect the…
Aaron Edwards New York Times The woman’s body stiffened with each passing second as she sat anxiously in the back row of a 14-person limousine. Suddenly, a man sitting near her was fatally shot — killed by an F.B.I. agent, the culmination of nearly 14 hours of one of the more gripping criminal episodes in…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A crime drama about an ATF agent is in the making. The Hollywood Reporter reports that writer John Hlavin has sold to ABC a show “Shelter” about “an ATF Agent whose real working-class Chicago life collides with his flashy Los Angeles cover when his wife is exposed to his criminal world,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Two inmates in Indiana are accused of running a drug enterprise out of prison with the help of cellphones smuggled in by guards, the Associated Press reports. The pair, Oscar Perez and Justin Addler, who are housed at different prisons, sold methamphetamine and heroin to inmates, according to a federal indictment that…
31 scary movies to watch on friday the 13th Bags Chloe Replica Here’s your hey Mickey you’re so fine Monday roundup of consumer news from around the Web: Zappos has been hacked. The security problem did not affect “critical credit card and other payment data Chloe Replica,” Zappos Chief Executive Tony Hsieh wrote in an…
