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By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Michael B. Steinbach, who has been acting head of the Miami FBI since last August, becomes the permanent special agent in charge. Steinbach also served as head of the Jacksonville office while he was acting SAC for Miami. He began his career as an agent in 1995, and was first posted…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Former FBI Director Louis Freeh, who last year led an investigation into the sexual abuse of Penn State University’s assistant football coach will take over the law firm Pepper Hamilton L.L.P. later this month, the Philadelphia Enquirer reports. Freeh, who is replacing Nina Gussak, merged his Wilmington-based law firm with Pepper…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A new FBI agent will oversee operations in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Carlos Cases, previously served as director for Latin America and the southwest border for the FBI’s criminal investigations division in Washington, D.C., will monitor crimes in U.S. territories from the San Juan, Puerto Rico office, the FBI…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An Alabama man who took a boy hostage in an underground bunker for days had two explosive devices ready to detonate, the FBI said Tuesday, the Miami Herald reports. The FBI also revealed that a firefight ensued as FBI agents rushed the bunker to save the boy who turns 6 today. The…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com FBI agents arrested a San Louis Obispo detective on allegations he was involved in a bribery scheme, the Los Angeles Times reports. Cory Pierce, 39, was charged in federal court with one count of bribery, the LA Times wrote. He’s accused of taking cash and narcotics from two people whom he calls…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com After seven grueling days, negotiations between the FBI and a kidnapper had broken down in southern Alabama. Fears elevated when agents saw the kidnapper, Jimmy Lee Dykes, with a gun, NBC News reports. A decision had to be made. “Within the past 24 hours negotiations deteriorated and Mr. Dykes was observed holding…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A month before Sami Samir Hassoun placed what he thought was a bomb near Wrigley Field in Chicago in 2010, the FBI worried the undercover informant had entrapped the suspect and warned the informant to back off, the Associated Press reports. The AP wrote that Hassoun’s defense attorney disclosed the information in…
