By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Cleveland man was on his way to Puerto Rico to spread his mother’s cremated remains in the Caribbean Sea. But when Shannon Thomas opened his bag, he discovered that his mom’s ashes had spilled all over the suitcase with a TSA inspection notice, the Cleveland Scene reports. In a lawsuit…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A federal judge has awarded $1.1 million in damages to a former undercover DEA informant who was kidnapped in Colombia and held captive for more than three months, the Legal Times reported. The Legal Times reports that a U.S. Court of Federal Claims said the informant, identified in court papers as…
By Rhonda Cook The Atlanta Journal-Constitution A federal agent was in critical but stable condition Tuesday night and a suspect was dead after a shooting during an undercover law enforcement operation in Athens. A second suspect has been charged in the case. State and federal officials told reporters an Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agent…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com I think the American public in general has been blown away by recent news of the lapses in Secret Service security involving the President. I have to think, had terrorists any clue that it was so easy to breach security and get into the White House, they would have tried something…
By Boston Globe Editorial Board For the federal agency tasked with protecting the president, it’s embarrassing enough that a man could scale the White House fence and make it well into the executive mansion before being apprehended. But the Secret Service’s defensive response to the incident, including withholding key information about the breach, is a…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Want to spy on someone and have immediate access to their calls, texts and photos? There’s an app for that – and the FBI has tracked down the maker. The Daily Mail reports that the FBI shut down a website selling the “spyware” app and arrested a Pakistani national in Los Angeles…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Awaiting DNA results can be frustrating for law enforcement. But the FBI hopes to change that by expediting the process using the government’s new biometric identification database, Biometric Update reports. The FBI is accelerating the collection of DNA profiles for the Next Generation Identification System. Law enforcement officers will be able…
By MATT HANSEN Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON — Battered by a mounting series of security lapses, the head of the Secret Service resigned Wednesday, a day after enduring fierce criticism from lawmakers for failing to fix what they called systemic problems in the agency. The agency’s director, Julia A. Pierson, herself brought in as a…
