By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com For the first time in several decades, the federal inmate population has decreased, the Associated Press reports. The Justice Department revealed that roughly 4,800 fewer inmates were incarcerated last year than the year before. Attorney General Eric Holder said he anticipates the inmate population to be about 250,000 next week, which…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Six deputies for the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department were sentenced Wednesday to up to 41 months in prison for interfering with a federal civil rights investigation at a jail. The federal judge told the defendants that they lacked “courage to do what is right” and showed no remorse. The sentencing follows…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An Army veteran who climbed over a White House fence and made a mockery of security was twice interviewed by Secret Service agents earlier this summer in Virginia and Washington, the Associated Press reports. Yet during those interviews, the Secret Service determined Omar J. Gonzalez was not a security threat. The…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI has its eye on Americans who fought with ISIS terrorists and are now back on U.S. soil, the Daily Mail reports. The news comes 10 days after a U.S. Rep. Tim Bishop acknowledged there were 40 “foreign fighter” jihadis on U.S. soil. “The FBI is looking at them,” a…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI’s search for a new headquarters has begun a new phase. The General Services Administration is hosting public meetings to gauge interest in relocating the FBI’s Washington headquarters. The first stop is Springfield, the Washington Business Journal reports. http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/breaking_ground/2014/09/gsa-takes-the-fbi-headquarters-search-on-the-road.html The other locations are Greenbelt and Landover. The meetings are meant…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com If the ATF gets its way, new gun owners will have to identify their ethnicity on firearm records. But lawmakers in the House have introduced a bill to eliminate that controversial requirement, The Hill reports. Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., demanded answers. “The right of law-abiding citizens to own firearms is an…
By Kathleen Kingsbury Boston Globe Last Friday, a man with a knife was able to jump the White House fence on Pennsylvania Avenue and make his way into the president’s residence. The intruder allegedly had more than 800 rounds of ammunition in his car, a federal prosecutor said on Monday. In response, the Secret Service…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Canadian woman is accused of packing her checked luggage full with two guns, hundreds of rounds of ammo and 33 pounds of marijuana, NBC New York reports. The TSA found the items stuffed into household items like baby wipes, lemonade mix and cat litter. The 24-year-old woman from Scarborough, Ontario,…
