Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A U.S. Border Patrol agent is accused of exchanging nude photos with a 15-year-old girl via email, the El Paso Times reports. Agent Abel Michael Quiroz, 26, was arrested Tuesday on child pornography charges after a search warrant was executed at his La Cruce home. The search allegedly turned up sexually explicit…
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Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Minnesota teen, who kept a notebook critiquing school shootings, planned a massacre of his own at his high school and was found with several pressure-cooker bombs, an assault rifle and other guns, the New York Daily News reports. John David LaDue, 17, planned to kill his family, bomb his school and…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Walter R. Walsh chased gangsters as an FBI agent in the 1930s before becoming the longest-lived Olympian. He died at 106 at his home in Arlington, Va., the Associated Press reports. Walsh also trained Marine Corps snipers. In 1934, Walsh joined the FBI and began pursuing gangsters. His efforts led to the…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com After a hiring freeze that eroded Border Patrol’s staff, CBP is looking to hire 2,000 new officers to work in air, land and sea ports in 18 states across the nation, CBS Detroit reports. The hirings are designed to improve security and reduce wait ties at border crossings. CBP plans to deploy…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Homeland Security arrested more than 600 suspected gang members in what is being called the largest gang crackdown ever by the agency, the Associated Press reports. The operation, dubbed “Project Southbound,” involved Ice agents and local authorities in 179 cities, leading the arrest of 638 suspected gang members between March and April….
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Federal investigators announced a total of 44 charge against a suspected member of the hacktivist group Anonymous. Fidel Salinas, 27, of Donna, Texas, could be sentenced up to 444 years in prison for conspiring with the collective to hack computer systems of a county government, a school district and a newspaper in…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com U.S. Rep. Michael Grimm, who was indicted on fraud and other charges this week, served as an FBI agent for 11 years, spending about half of that time investigating financial corruption, the Wall Street Journal reports. Grimm’s congressional biography states that he worked in the New York FBI office from 1995 to…
