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![FBI and NYPD Checking on Origin of al Qaeda Graphic](https://ticklethewire.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/alqaeda-image.jpg)
FBI and NYPD Checking on Origin of al Qaeda Graphic
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The graphic is errie. The New York Daily News reports that the FBI and NYPD are trying to find the source of a a graphic posted on terrorism websites that says: “Al Qaeda coming soon again in New York.” The Daily News reported that authorities are trying to determine…
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FBI Probing Controversial Fla. Shooting
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI has been questioning potential witnesses in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, trying to determine if the incident was racially motivated, NBC’s Michael Isikoff reports. NBC reported that the questioning by FBI agents in Sanford, Fla. is part of a a “parallel investigation.” The state is also investigating the…
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FBI Agent Barry Bush Remembered 5 Years Later; Was Killed by Friendly Fire
By Douglas B. Brill The Express-Time The Barry Lee Bush that Joseph Douress remembers isn’t the FBI agent who investigated gangs in Newark and the U.S. Embassy bombing in Kenya. Douress remembers a friend who would sit on a floor and stuff envelopes with invitations for a charity golf tournament, a neighbor who would plop…
![A Mob Tape, an FBI Gaffe and Some Murders](https://ticklethewire.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/mobster-drawing2.jpg)
A Mob Tape, an FBI Gaffe and Some Murders
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com On the big screen and on TV, sometimes we forget the twisted plots aren’t simply made up, but actually come from real situations in the wiseguy world. Here’s a real story worthy of the big screen involving a mob hit and a secret recording in which an FBI audio expert accidentally…
![Ouch: Ex-FBI Agent Arrested for Allegedly Hitting Her Partially Blind Dad](https://ticklethewire.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/dayton-ohio.jpg)
Ouch: Ex-FBI Agent Arrested for Allegedly Hitting Her Partially Blind Dad
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It’s never good when you hit your father. It’s really bad when he’s partially blind. The Vindicator newspaper reports that Sheila Lawson, 46, a former FBI agent, was arrested on the east side of Youngstown, Ohio after allegedly assaulting her father. The paper reports that Lawson hit her father because he…
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Authorities Bust Two San Diego Men Posing as FBI Agents
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Two San Diego men were busted for impersonating FBI agents in a scheme to shake down a woman out of more than $200,000. NBC San Diego reports that the men posed as agents and told a woman that she was a victim of a fraud by her bank. They directed her…
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Ex-FBI Agent to Head Puerto Rico Police Dept.
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The man who once headed up the FBI office in Puerto Rico has been named the new chief of the Puerto Rico police department. The Associated Press reports that Hector Pesquera comes just hours after police chief Emilio Diaz Colon resigned a head of the 17,000 member force. He was first…