Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Etan Patz, whose 1979 disappearance shocked New Yorkers, was declared dead in 2001, and the 6-year-old’s confessed killer was charged. But the New York Daily News reports that the FBI asked an American living in Europe if he was Patz. “Obviously, I was surprised,” the man, who asked not to be identified,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Erik Preston promised his dying brother that he’d seek justice. “I sat with him as he passed away and I kissed him and I told him, I said, ‘I’ll let everybody know that this is not right, this is not true, and you shouldn’t be here,’” his brother, Erick Preston said, according…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI and Justice Department have been losing employees and not replacing them because of budget cuts. But the Wall Street Journal reports that President Obama’s budget deal in late December would end the hiring freeze and fill positions again. The FBI plans to hire about 1,000 people. The Justice Department will…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Some justice was delivered in a sorry chapter in law enforcement involving the murder of U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry on Dec. 14, 2010. Manuel Osorio-Arellanes of Mexico was sentenced Monday in U.S. District Court in Tucson to 30 years in prison for the killing of Terry, whose death was…
By Ross Parker ticklethewire.com One of the most successful of the marijuana legalization lobbying organizations, the Marijuana Policy Project(MPP) announced its 2014 strategic plan and expects a “huge” year in passing state medical marijuana and legalization laws, as well as action in Congress to block drug enforcement activity. Twenty years ago marijuana was illegal in…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Married gay and lesbian couples should have the same rights in legal matters as other married couples, Attorney General Eric Holder announced this weekend. The USA Today reports that Holder announced the new policy this weekend. “In every courthouse, in every proceeding and in every place where a member of the Department…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com What is the likelihood of an explosive attack at the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia? According to the chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security on Sunday, there’s a “high degree of probability” of an explosion or bomb attack, CBS DC reports. “There’s a high degree of probability that something will…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Not everyone is welcoming of U.S. law enforcement authorities. At the Sochi Olympics, a restaurant billboard indicated, “We do not serve FBI and CIA agents,” Ground Report writes. Associated Press photographer Jae C. Hong spotted the wooden billboard outside an eatery in Sochi. Another sign read, “We remember the Cold War.” The…
