Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Moroccan national accused of plotting an attack with a radio-controlled model airplane was arrested Monday by FBI agents, the CTPost.com reports. El Mehdi Semlali Fahti, 27, is accused of plotting to crash the plane into a school and a Connecticut federal building. FBI agents said they found wires and tools inside…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Not many FBI agents are as lucky as Leonard Davey. Special Agent Davey spent his entire 24-year career tracking down criminals in the city he loves – San Diego. While most agents agents move around for work, the San Francisco native stayed in San Diego and investigated mobsters, corrupt politicians, law enforcement and…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI under J. Edgar Hoover was never as it seemed, and supportive reporters had no qualms changing the narrative to make the bureau look good, the Topeka Capital-Journal reports. Take April 6, 1939, when an inexperienced FBI agent shot and killed a bank robber, Bennie Dickson, under questionable circumstances. The agency…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com After two deadly shooting rampages at Ford Hood in Texas, some congressional members said military leaders should be permitted to carry firearms on the base, the New York Post reports. Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mike McCaul called it “a common sense idea.” “That would be a deterrent, No. 1 — and No….
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Investigators haven’t made much headway in the brutal murder of a Peace Corps volunteer after she claimed a local Peace Corps employee was sexually assaulting girls where she worked in the West African country of Benin five years ago, WPRO.com reports. On Thursday, 184 members of Congress from both sides of the…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The hope is they’ll never have to use their training. But in a country where the once unthinkable is happening, local and federal law enforcement can’t take any chances. The Sacramento Bee reports that local and federal law enforcement conducted a training drill at the Westfield Roseville Galleria to prepare for the…
