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Maryland Officials Trying to Lure FBI Headquarters to Suburbs
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The DEA headquarters is housed in suburban Virginia. So is the Pentagon. So would it be that outlandish to move the legendary, but outdated FBI headquarters on Pennsylvania Avenue, just down the street from the Capitol, to suburban Maryland? Maryland officials apparently think it’s not unreasonable. In fact, they think it’s…
Feds and Local Cops in D.C. Announce “Most Important Weapons Investigation” in Recent Past
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A year-long fed and local undercover sting in the nation’s capitol netted $7.2 million in cocaine, methamphetamines and other drugs as well as 161 weapons, with 70 people arrested, Clarence Williams of the Washington Post reports. In documents unveiled Monday, Christopher Washington–one of the arrested–offered handgrenades and a rocket launcher to an…
FBI Investigates Swastika Painted on Sen. Roberts Office… Again
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Senator Pat Roberts went to work on Monday to quite a surprise: red swastikas painted over the weekend on a wall of the Senator’s Wichita, Kans. office. The FBI has been called in to investigate, reports the Wichita Eagle. This was not a first for the Republican. It was the second…
FBI Report Says Violent Crimes Dropped 6.4% in 1st Half of 2011
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Violent crimes and property crimes in the U.S. dropped during January to June of this year compared to the same period last year, according to the FBI’s just-released Preliminary Semiannual Uniform Crime Report. The report showed that overall, violent crimes were down 6.4 percent in that period, and property crimes dipped…
Ex-El Paso County Judge Indicted on Public Corruption Charges
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com And now for a little news about corruption just north of the Mexican border. Indictments unsealed on Friday show that an ex-judge and three businessmen were arrested after a years-long federal investigation into corruption in El Paso County, the AP reports Anthony Cobos, the former county judge, allegedly received bribes and…
Gangs Infiltrating Military, Sending High-Powered Weapons to American Streets
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com American streets may become much more dangerous. Military.com reports that, according to the latest National Gang Intelligence Center Report (NGIC), American street gangs are acquiring high-powered, military-grade weapons with increasing frequency, the result of gang members both enlisted and working as contract civilians at military bases who may be funneling the…
Santa’s Helper, a Giant Elf, a Cuban Inmate Uprising and the Salvation Army
By Greg Stejskal ticklethewire.com This is a Christmas story, but it really began just before Thanksgiving in 1987, at the Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta. The Cuban inmates had rioted and had taken control of a sizeable portion of the penitentiary. The catalyst for the riots happened years before that in 1980. The Mariel boatlift, a…
Column: Santa’s Helper, a Giant Elf, a Cuban Inmate Uprising and the Salvation Army
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 This is a Christmas story, but it really began just before Thanksgiving in 1987, at the Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta. The Cuban inmates had rioted and had taken…