Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI has been using drones domestically since 2006, longer than previously known, the Los Angeles Times reports. The findings come from the inspector general’s audit of drones, which found that the FBI flew unmanned planes weighing less than 55 pounds to track suspects and examine crime scenes. The FBI declined to…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A California man’s decision to hack the phone of the reigning Miss Teen USA turned out to be a bad one. ABC News reports that police arrested 19-year-old Jared James Abrahams of Temecula on charges that he hacked her phone to obtained nude photos, which he threatened to reveal unless she sent…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An off-duty Homeland Security agent is accused of shooting at a car with a 2-year-old child on it during a road-rage incident in Boca Raton, NBC Miami reports. Police disclosed the Sept. 7 arrest on Thursday, saying Angel Echevarria, 40, claimed he pulled out the gun in an attempt to shoot out…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The U.S. and Puerto Rico are safer today because of an anti-crime initiative aimed at putting more federal agents in Puerto Rico, Reuters reports. Dubbed “Operation Caribbean Resilience,” the effort started in July 2012 but increased markedly over the last three months, according to Reuters. In the past year, the operation has…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Lawmakers are trying to expand the surveillance powers of intelligence agencies to make spying more seamless when a terror suspect enters the U.S., the Associated Press reports. The idea is to close the gap between NSA and FBI electronic surveillance, which occurs because of different legal standards between the two agencies. That…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI has released footage of the Navy Yard gunman stalking the corridors in search of victims. The shooter, Aaron Alexis, 34, believed he was being controlled by low frequency radio waves, an FBI spokeswoman said, BBC reports. “At this point I can confirm that there are multiple indicators that Alexis held…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The stream of young Somali Americans joining terrorists in Somalia continues to flow despite an attempt by authorities to cut off money to support terrorism, the Associated Press reports. The population is concentrated in Minnesota, where Somali Americans have been leaving to join al-Shabab in Somalia for six years. At least 22…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Bad news continues to follow ATF. This time, the federal agency lost 420 million cigarettes, misused $162 million in profits from stings and conducted dozens of unauthorized investigations of illegal tobacco sales, the inspector general said, according to the Associated Press. Investigators were unable to locate 2.1 million cartons because of shoddy…
