Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The never-ending battle to crack down on immigrant smugglers has shifted to southernmost Texas where federal agents are seeing an alarming influx of activity, Fox News reports. Border Patrol leaders are shifting resources from western states after a marked increase of arrests from Oct. 1 to May 17, when more than 148,000…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com City and county jails are increasingly rejecting federal requests to hold immigrants who are in the country illegally. Now the Justice Department plans to do something about it – reduce deportation mainly to immigrants who have committed violent crimes, the Los Angeles Times reports. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson is expected to make…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The full-body scanners that revealed nude images to the TSA at airports now have a new home. Time reports that most of the 171 scanners have ended up in jails nationwide. Privacy advocates blasted the scanners, saying they were too revealing. The federal government let go of the scanners for much less…
Greg Stejskal served as an FBI agent for 31 years and retired as resident agent in charge of the Ann Arbor office. By Greg Stejskal ticklethewire.com The 60s were a tumultuous decade, and 1964 was emblematic of that decade. Arthur Ashe won the US Open, and Martin Luther King, Jr. was awarded the Nobel…
By Greg Stejskal ticklethewire.com The 60s were a tumultuous decade, and 1964 was emblematic of that decade. Arthur Ashe won the US Open, and Martin Luther King, Jr. was awarded the Nobel Prize for peace. The Beatles came to America and established a beachhead for the “British invasion.” Lyndon Johnson, a Southern Democrat,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Two men disguised as police officers stole $500 million worth of artwork from a Boston museum in 1990. Now the FBI has confirmed recent sightings of the work that was taken from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston.com reports. The art included work by Rembrandt, Vermeer and Manet. FBI Special Agent Geoff…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com FBI Director James Comey has come under fire for suggesting this week that he wants to relax the bureau’s drug policies to hire the best and brightest hackers. “I have to hire a great workforce to compete with those cyber-criminals, and some of those kids want to smoke weed on the way…
