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Were FBI Agent’s Texts Intentionally Destroyed in Gun Trafficking Sting in Philippines?
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The question is: Were the text messages sent by an undercover FBI agent to defendants in an 18-month gun trafficking sting in the Philippines destroyed by the government or was there merely a technical glitch that prevented them from being saved? Deputy Federal Defender John Littrell suggests in a court document…
Calls for Investigation into Border Patrol Shooting Increase After Latest Death
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The latest fatal shooting by the U.S. Border Patrol has raised questions about the agency’s use of force over the past two years, the Arizona Republic reports. The ACLU and other human-rights advocates are questioning the frequency of the shootings, which have left 18 people dead since January 2010, according to the…
Violence Crime Surged Last Year Following Two Decades of Declines
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A nearly 20-year decline in violence has come to an end, according to a federal survey on crimes, the USA Today reports. The violent crime rate rose 17% last year, while the rate of property crimes increased 11%, according to the Justice Department’s National Crime Victimization Survey. Whether the rise was anomalous…
FBI Arrests Bangladeshi Man Accused of Trying to Blow Up the New York Federal Reserve Bank
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Bangladeshi man is accused of assembling what he thought was a 1,000 pound bomb and trying to detonate it to blow up the New York Federal Reserve Bank, Reuters reports. The FBI said Wednesday that Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis drove the devise to the bank and walked back to his…
3:10 to Marquette: The Manhunt and Capture of Vincent Loonsfoot in the North Woods of Michigan
By Greg Stejskal ticklethewire.com In the summer of 1988, Vincent Loonsfoot, an American Indian, drove to the Hannahville Potawatomi Reservation near Escanaba, Mich. There he ambushed and shot to death four members of his wife’s family and kidnapped his estranged wife. Loonsfoot then set off into the woods – beginning a highly publicized manhunt through…
Column: The Manhunt and Capture of Vincent Loonsfoot in North Woods of Michigan
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 In the summer of 1988, Vincent Loonsfoot, an American Indian, drove to the Hannahville Potawatomi Reservation near Escanaba, Mich. There he ambushed and shot to death four members of…
Were FBI Agent’s Texts Intentionally Destroyed in Gun Trafficking Sting in Philippines?
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The question is: Were the text messages sent by an undercover FBI agent to defendants in an 18-month gun trafficking sting in the Philippines destroyed by the government or was there merely a technical glitch that prevented them from being saved? Deputy Federal Defender John Littrell suggests in a court…
FBI/NYPD Sting Nabs Man Plotting to Blow up Federal Reserve in Manhattan
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A Bangladeshi national has been arrested for in an FBI-NYPD sting for plotting to blow up the Federal Reserve Bank in Lower Manhattan, the New York Daily News reports. Quazi Nafis, 21, was arrested Wednesday morning. He had parked a van filled with what he thought were explosives, but were actually…