By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com GPS-enabled ankle bracelets are an effective way to keep track of parolees and others in trouble with the law. Now Homeland Security is beginning to give the bracelets to some parents captured crossing the Mexican border illegal with their children, the Associated Press reports. The parents were ordered to report back…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com David Bowdich is moving up. The special agent in charge of Counterterrorism in the FBI’s Los Angeles office has been named the assistant director in charge. Bowdich, who was named ticklethewire.com Fed of the Year in 2013, had served as the SAC since 2012. Bowdich became an agent in 1995 and…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Former FBI agent Robert Lustyk agent pleaded guilty Tuesday in New York federal court to bribery charges, admitting that he provided internal law enforcement documents and other confidential information about a prominent citizen of Bangladesh for use by a political rival in exchange for cash, authorities said. “Robert Lustyik discarded the…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is investigating an anonymous threat that ISIS plans to blow up the Memphis-Arkansas Bridge over the Mississippi River sthis month, FOX13 News reports. The FBI sent a letter of warning to local law enforcement. “According to an anonymous complainant, as of December 2014, ISIS instructed an ISIS member, a…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI plans to train 30,000 officers nationwide how to handle an active shooter in schools, businesses and other public places, the USA Today reports. More than 200 agents are helping with the training, which was hatched after the 2012 Newton, Conn., school massacre. “We have found a block of training…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A lot less marijuana was seized this fiscal year by the U.S. Border Patrol in San Diego, but the agency has seen a sizable increase in the amount of cocaine, methamphetamine and heroin confiscated, KPBS reports. Leaders at the San Diego sector said the seizures represent a tighter security. “I am…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A watchdog report has sharply criticized the Secret Service for refusing to disclose mandatory data on its computer security systems to Homeland Security, making it difficult to measure the department’s security practices, the Hill reports. The report by the DHS Office of Inspector General condemned the Secret Service, saying its…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A TSA agent has turned himself in after his estranged wife was found dead in a parked van Monday in Florida, the New York Daily News reports. Herve Placide, 49, was arrested Monday following the discovery of his wife in a Walgreens Parking lot in Poinciana, Fla. Placide is considered a…
