By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Saturday marks the 60th anniversary of the FBI’s famous and wildly successful Ten Most Wanted Fugitive program, which has helped capture hundreds of suspects since its inception. The Imperial Valley News reports that the program’s roots reach back to 1949, when a reporter for the International News Service wrote a story…
By Carol D. Leonnig The Washington Post WASHINGTON –– The Obama administration is investigating allegations that two senior Secret Service agents, including a top member of the president’s protective detail, drove a government car into White House security barricades after drinking at a late-night party last week, an agency official said Wednesday. Officers on duty…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Deputy U.S. Marshal Josie Wells was shot in the neck and killed Tuesday in a gun battle in Baton Rouge, La. Wells, 27, a native of Mississippi, had been with the U.S. Marshals Service since January 2011. Authorities said that Wells was part of a team executing arrest warrants on fugitive…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Police arrested a U.S. Border Patrol agent accused of sexually assaulting a child, MySanAntonio.com reports. Luis Angel Lozada, 28, is out of jail on a $750,000 bond Saturday. Lozada has worked for Border Patrol since 2009. Details of the allegations weren’t immediately clear, but the crimes allegedly occurred in El Paso….
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Retired FBI Agent Robert Levinson was kidnapped eight years ago this month while traveling to an Iranian island, making him one of the longest-held U.S. residents in history. CNN reports that the FBI has increased the reward for information on Levinson, who also turned 67 this month, from $1 million to…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The lead FBI agent in the recovery of evidence from the bomb site at the Boston Marathon is expected testify today in the jury trial of Dzhokha Tsarnaev. FBI Special Agent Sarah DeLair began collecting evidence just hours after the blasts at the crowded finishing line on April 15, 2013, she…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Ferguson City Manager John Shaw announced Tuesday that he was resigning after a scathing Justice Department report that criticized him and other Ferguson officials for a culture of discrimination, The Washington Post reports. The city called the resignation a “mutual separation agreement” Shaw is the second person to resign following the…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is investigating the apparent firebombing of a KFC in Reno after authorities found the initials of an animal rights group scrawled on a drive-thru sign, The Associated Press reports. Investigators believe a window was broken at the restaurant, and flammable liquid was found inside, in what may be a…
