By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A man convicted in the 1990 shooting death of an FBI special agent has been ordered released from death row in Nevada, KLAS-TV reports. U.S. District Judge Miranda Du said Jose Echavarria must be released within 60 days barring the prosecutors willingness to retry the case. Du said then-Clark County District…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A controversial tactic by federal investigators from the DEA to create a bogus Facebook page using real information from a suspect has turned into a $134,000 settlement for the woman targeted on the social media page, the Associated Press reports. In the settlement with Sondra Arquiett, the DEA still did not…
By Greg Stejskal ticklethewire.com Webster Bivens may have been a drug dealer, but his place in law enforcement history is not proportional to his status as an alleged dealer. In the fall of 1965, Federal Bureau of Narcotics agents raided Bivens’ Brooklyn apartment. The FBN agents had neither an arrest warrant nor a search warrant….
Greg Stejskal served as an FBI agent for 31 years and retired as resident agent in charge of the Ann Arbor office By Greg Stejskal ticklethewire.com Webster Bivens may have been a drug dealer, but his place in law enforcement history is not proportional to his status as an alleged dealer. In the fall…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A former FBI agent accused of killing his wife is expected to stand trial for the second time beginning today, the Associated Press reports. Arthur B. Gonzalez, 43, is charged in Stafford County, Va., with second-degree murder and using a firearm in the commission of a felony It’s his second trial…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Authorities are searching for a convicted drug lord who was released from prison after killing a DEA agent following a recent decision by a Mexican court, the Associated Press reports. The Mexican Supreme Court pressured a lower court to reverse the decision to release Rafael Caro Quintero in August 2013 after…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com In a rare show of force, Border Patrol agents fired warning shots from a Blackhawk helicopter to stop a panga boat that authorities suspected was smuggling drugs off the San Diego coast, the Associated Press reports. The boat was spotted by the Coast Guard, and men were spotted throwing what authorities…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Secret Service is trying to determine who fired shots outside Vice President Joe Biden’s home in Delaware on Saturday night, the Washington Post reports. The Secret Service said a vehicle fled the area after firing the shots at the home in the small, wealthy suburb of Wilmington. Neither Biden nor…
