Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A full-scale tactical team for the ATF, which took part in the capture of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, was activated to investigate the U.S. Navy Yard shooting in Washington D.C., the Boston Globe reports. The team, based in D.C., is among five regional ATF tactical groups stationed across the nation….
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Embezzling $1,800 from the DEA will cost a former employee one year of probation and 50 hours of community service, the Tribune-Review reports. U.S. District Judge Donetta Ambrose delivered the sentenced Monday to Holly Cook, 43, of Monongahela, Pa. Cook pleaded guilty in May to taking $1,800 from a locked cash box…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The December 2010 slaying of Border Patrol Agent Brian A. Terry shed light on the U.S. government’s botched gun-smuggling investigation, Operation Fast and Furious, The Washington Times reports. Now a third suspect is in custody in the shootout that left Terry dead in the Arizona borderlands. Police in Sinaloa, Mexico, arrested suspect…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI investigated the New York Knicks in the early 1980s on allegations that three of the players shaved off points “as a favor to their cocaine supplier,” Sports Illustrated reports. The revelations come from the recently released book, “Larceny Games: Sports Gambling, Game Fixing and the FBI.” According to the book,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Gilberto Abascal was a main informant in two-high profile cases in Florida in the past seven years, but now he’s living large in Cuba, the Miami Herald reports. Abascal was the key witness in the trial of militant Cuban exile Luis Posada Carriles two years ago, the Herald wrote. In 2006, he…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A former U.S. Border Patrol agent who smuggled bundles of marijuana from the Arizona-Mexico border is set to be sentenced today, The Republic reports. Anaya, who also pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm while committing a drug offense, was caught on surveillance loading bundles of pot into his patrol car between Yuma…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com ATF is proposing to end a loophole that allows people to obtain weapons such as machine guns though corporations or legal trusts without a background check, Courthouse News Service reports. Anyone wanting to buy a gun is required to file a photo and fingerprint card with the ATF and a local law…
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