By Allan Lengel A Michigan man was sentenced Wednesday to 6 years and 3 months in prison for a $5 million extortion plot that involved placing shrapnel-filled pipe bombs outside cellphone stores in northern Michigan. John Douglas Allen, 76, was sentenced in Bay City, Mich., after he had pleaded guilty to extortion by wrongful use…
A man is facing federal arson charges after authorities say he threatened a security officer and later set fire to the guardhouse at the FBI’s Chicago Field Office.
The FBI arrested two Venezuelan nationals who authorities say “pushed, dragged and punched” a Border Patrol agent, the bureau said Tuesday.
By Allan Lengel Tom O’Connor, who worked 23 years in the FBI’s Washington Field Office, specializing in domestic terrorism and extremist groups, addresses talk of a U.S. civil war, whether we’ll see more politically-motivated violence like Jan. 6, attempts to demonize the bureau and election deniers. O’Connor talks with ticklethewire.com Editor Allan Lengel.
By Allan Lengel The non-profit news organization ProPublica has some bad news if you’re hoping the FBI will defend America against the menacing and dangerous practice called ransomware. Reporters Renee Dudley and Daniel Golden conclude that the FBI can’t keep pace with the problem because it lacks enough agents with advanced computer skills, it hasn’t recruited as…
A former agent working with a Homeland Security Investigations task force has been sentenced to one year of unsupervised probation for leaking information about a Border Patrol agent who was under investigation.
The DEA’s St. Louis Division seized a record amount of fentanyl in fiscal year 2022 – more than eight times the amount confiscated five years ago.
The FBI settled a pair of lawsuits that were filed against the bureau after an agent masqueraded as an Associated Press journalist in 2007.
