By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A year after Secret Service agents fatally shot Mariam Carey in Washington D.C., many of the circumstances leading to her death remain a mystery, Gawker reports. The 34-year-old dental hygienist from Connecticut made a U-turn at a White House checkpoint before she was gunned down by the Secret Service and Capitol…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com David Laufman, an experienced former federal prosecutor, will take over the Justice Department’s counterespionage efforts as part of a larger restructuring to put more of a focus on cyber attacks, Reuters reports. Laufman is expected to begin his job today as chief of the counterespionage section of the Justice Department’s national…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com As far as threats go, this isn’t the FBI’s most dire. The bureau launched an investigation into an anonymous letter that threatened someone would damage trees and shrubs in the Center of Ole Miss’ campus, the USA Today reports. “What’s going to happen to y’all on the field Saturday Aint nothing…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Two Houston-area investigators were working on an embezzlement case when authorities said the men helped themselves to hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of rare comic, the Associated Press reports. Dustin Deutsch, 41, and Lonnie Blevins, 39, are accused of stealing the vintage comics from an evidence storage unit in 2012…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Islamic State supporters are calling on lone-wolf attacks in areas where law enforcement is distracted by unrest in the wake of the Ferguson grand jury decision, HSToday.com reports. The supporters are using social media to spread the message. In one tweet, Al Nusra Al Maqdisiyya, a popular group of pro-ISIS activists,…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The ATF is investigating an intentionally set fire at a church where Michael Brown’s father regularly attended in Ferguson, Mo., the St Louis Post-Dispatch reports. The Flood Christian Church was among dozens of buildings that were torched following the grand jury’s decision not to indict the white police officer who shot…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Two FBI agents were shot while helping police execute a search warrant near Ferguson early Wednesday, Reuters reports. The FBI said the shooting was unrelated to the unrest in Ferguson, where protesters have been gathering for months after a white police officer shot an unarmed black teen. “The incident is not…
