By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Authorities have arrested at least seven people for allegedly threatening police after a man shot two NYPD officers in the head Saturday in retaliation for the recent deaths of black men at the hands of white cops, CNN reports. Police have been encouraging the public to report all threats so law…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A federal judge has postponed an illegal Internet gambling trial to determine whether FBI agents went beyond the law when they entered Las Vegas hotel suites without a warrant and obtained information from the computers of the suspects, the Associated Press reports. The Jan. 12 trial date was vacated pending a…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A 40-year-old man is dead after he was shot by a border inspector with a stun gun at the busy border crossing of San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico, the Associated Press reports. Police said the incident happened after a man leaped over a counter and attacked an inspector while being escorted…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Border Patrol is investigating the reported kidnapping of one of its agents and has begun trying to account for all of its employees in the Rio Grand Valley area, according to several reports. 3KIII-TV reported that an agent may have been kidnapped by a Mexican cartel. According to KRGV, the La…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI raided the Puerto Rico headquarters of Doral Bank in search of evidence related to “several ongoing investigations” Tuesday following questions about the lender’s ability to meet regulatory mandates, Bloomberg reports. The FBI confirmed it collected computers and documents from the San Juan bank’s offices but declined to elaborate on…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Google alerted authorities to a Colorado Springs man who threatened to “hunt” and kill police officers in the comment sections of a YouTube video, leading to the man’s arrest Monday, the Colorado Spring Gazette reports. Jeremiah M. Perez was arrested after Google contacted the FBI Office in San Francisco. “SINCE DARREN…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com At least a dozen officers swept into his Santa Clara home, their assault weapons and service guns drawn. This wasn’t a drug bust. Police were looking for a stolen $300 dashboard camera that was never found. The subject of the search, Homeland Security Agent Mohammed Moneeb, is accusing Santa Clara police…
