Alan Stamm ticklethewire.com BIRMINGHAM, Mich. — Elmore Leonard, the acclaimed crime novelist who died Tuesday morning, imagined characters who behave and sound like believable law breakers and law enforcers. His best-known plot stars include Raylan Givens, a deputy U.S. marshal on page and screen. Leonard, who died at 87 in his suburban Detroit home from…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Every split second counts in a mass shooting. So the FBI, acting on a White House directive following a school shooting last year, is training local police how to handle a mass shooting, ABC News reports. The idea is to establish a standardized strategy to respond to shootings. Apart from the tactical…
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Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Everything about it looked real. It even spooked authorities, who believed at first they may have found an improvised explosive device on a bus that serves people with disabilities in St. Louis, KCTV 5 News reports. Turns out, the device was fake but was made to look real to scare people. “The…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com John Reznikoff wants a hefty price – nearly $4,000 – on eBay for some circuit boards, wires and digital cards. Then again, they aren’t just any computer scraps, the Connecticut resident claims. UPI.com reports that Reznikoff bought the equipment for $500 from the president of a Boston electronics recycling company, where a pallet…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Is New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly in line for the top Homeland Security post? Kelly said he’s spent time in Washington D.C., but added Sunday, “I know it’s wise to keep my mouth shut at this time,” Kelly told CBS’s “Face the Nation.” But pressure is building against Kelly, whose…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An FBI agent made an unsettling discovery outside of his North Carolina residence earlier this month: Someone broke into his car overnight and stole an M-16, shotgun, night vision equipment and body armor. Now the Charlotte FBI office is offering up to a $5,000 reward leading to the recovery of the stolen…
By Greg Stejskal ticklethewire.com In 1982, legendary Michigan football coach Bo Schembechler asked the Ann Arbor, Mich., FBI office to talk to his team about the perils of illegal sports gambling. The senior resident agent, Tom Love, agreed to make the presentation. Love, knowing I had played college football at Nebraska (read: mostly practiced),…
