Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com DETROIT — The U.S. Border Patrol is building a new station in Detroit after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awarded a $14 million contract for the design construction of the new building, the Associated Press reports. The 45,000-square-foot facility is expected to be done in spring 2015. It is to include…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A former FBI agent who killed a teenager in a drunken-driving crash in Maryland could be sentenced to up to 13 years in prison today, the Associated Press reports. Adrian Johnson was convicted in October of motor vehicle manslaughter and homicide by motor vehicle while intoxicated after crashing his car into another…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The U.S. Border Patrol rescued a child who injured his leg on a hunting trip in the mountains of New Mexico, the Associated Press reports. A Border Patrol crew from the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Air and Marine in El Paso rushed to save the child in mountains near Deming….
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Alabama Department of Homeland Security released an unusual instructional video on how respond to a mass shooting, Gawker reports. With haunting music and blood spatter, the six-minute video “scares the shit out of everyone who watches it,” Gawker reported. The video, produced originally by the Houston Police Department, depicts an office…
Investors Business Daily Opinion In an end-of-year press release — posted under the banner headline “Accomplishments Under the Leadership of Attorney General Eric Holder” — the Justice Department boasts of charging “nearly 3,000” bankers with lending discrimination and fraud. If all of them were guilty, this would be quite an accomplishment. Few would argue that…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI Agents Association is supporting a bill that would authorize federal agents to respond and help local authorities during mass shootings and other violence at a public place, the Washington Times reports. The association, which announced its support Wednesday, said the bill would make it easier for feds to help local…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI performed a record number of background checks on people who wanted to buy guns in December and all of 2012, CNN reports. The spike this month – 2.8 million background checks – occurred during two high-profile mass shootings. The number of background checks for the years totaled more than 19.5…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Jimmy Fox III, head of the DEA in New Orleans, is the subject of an internal investigation, the New Orleans Times-Picayune reports. The paper reports he may have violated some ethics laws when he put in a bid to oversee sweeping reforms in the police department that had been ordered under…
