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Meth Lab Seizures Up; Experts Point to “Shake-and-Bake”
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com According to an AP survey of the nation’s leading states in meth production, lab seizures by law enforcement agencies rose nationally, the AP reports. In 2011 Missouri was the leading producer, with 2,096 seizures. Missouri was followed by Tennessee, Indiana, Kentucky and then Oklahoma. Across the nation the rise in meth…
Ex-FBI Official Don Clark Says Mexico’s Drug Violence Our Problem Too
Mexico’s Violence Our Problem Too, Ex-FBI Agent Says: MyFoxHOUSTON.com
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British Intelligence Assisted FBI in Tracking Charlie Chaplin
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com MI5, the British intelligence agency, cooperated with J Edgar Hoover’s FBI in tracking the actor Charlie Chaplin in the 1950s for alleged communist sympathies, reports the Guardian. Describing Chaplin as “Hollywood’s parlour Bolsheviks,” the FBI asked MI5 for cooperation in having him banned from the US. MI5 put together “extensive personal…
![Payday: $29.5 in Forfeited Money Distributed to Law Enforcement Across Texas](https://ticklethewire.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/money-photo.jpg)
Payday: $29.5 in Forfeited Money Distributed to Law Enforcement Across Texas
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com It’s payday, thanks to a Mexican drug cartel. The bulk of $29.5 million in money seized by federal authorities from a Mexican cartel boss has been handed out in “asset sharing” funds by ICE, DEA, FBI and other federal agencies to law enforcement agencies across the state of Texas to combat…
![Over the Top: Ohio Woman Solicited FBI Undercover Agent to Kill a Fur Lover](https://ticklethewire.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/hitman1.jpg)
Over the Top: Ohio Woman Solicited FBI Undercover Agent to Kill a Fur Lover
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Here’s an animal rights policy even PETA wouldn’t back: a Cleveland Heights woman is being charged with soliciting a hit man to randomly kill someone wearing a fur product, reports FOX Cleveland. Meredith Marie Lowell, 27, was arrested shortly after the charges were announced on Tuesday, Special Agent with the FBI…
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Mueller to Deliver Speech on Cyber Attacks at Calif. Conference
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III, who has been sounding the alarms about the dangers of cyber attacks, will be the keynote speaker on March 1 at the RSA Conference, which is billed as the world’s leading information security conference. Mueller will deliver a speech entitled “Combating Threats in the Cyber…
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FBI Releases Files on 2002 Winter Olympics; Someone Raised Red Flag About $103,597 Overseas Phone Bill
By Nate Carlisle The Salt Lake Tribune Twenty-four days before the Opening Ceremony of the 2002 Winter Olympics, the FBI’s counterterrorism unit sent a memo to its agents in Utah. The FBI had received a tip from an employee at a cell service provider that a customer had racked up a $103,597 phone bill by…
![Ex-FBI Chief Spokesman John Miller Has Returned to TV](https://ticklethewire.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/john-miller-fbi-photo.jpg)
Ex-FBI Chief Spokesman John Miller Has Returned to TV
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com In case you didn’t notice, John Miller, who headed the FBI’s public affairs office, and then moved on in 2009 to become assistant deputy director of intelligence analysis for the Office of Director of National Intelligence, has returned to TV. The New York Post recently reported that Miller showed up on…